Dyslexia Teacher - Ireland

- A listing of organizations offering assistance and advice about dyslexia in Ireland is available on this website, with links to these organisations:


The Dyslexia Association of Ireland (DAI) was founded in 1972. It is a company, limited by guarantee, a voluntary organisation with charitable status.

It aims to promote awareness of Specific Learning Disability (SLD/Dyslexia) and to serve the needs of people with this difficulty.

The DAI lobbies for the provision of appropriate services by the state to all people with dyslexia. It provides a free information service to the public.

Services offered include: psycho-educational assessment of children and adults, group and individual specialised tuition, teachers' courses, Summer schools, speakers for schools and parents groups.

The Association represents over 2,500 families all over Ireland. Its membership includes teachers, psychologists and medical practitioners.

The Dyslexia Association of Ireland currently has thirty five branches and offers thirty four "out-of-school" facilities (Workshops) for children with SLD.

The association also provides services for adults with SLD/Dyslexia.

Contact Information: Dyslexia Association Suffolk Chambers, 1 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 679 0275 / 6 Fax.: 01 - 679 0273

E-mail: info@dyslexia.ie

Dyslexia in Ireland Website - If you live in the Republic of Ireland and have a child with a Specific Learning Difficulty then hopefully this site will contain useful information you

The Education (No. 2) Bill (Ireland, 1997b) is the legal document that covers practically all aspects of special education needs.

The Bill and the Explanatory and Financial Memorandum can be downloaded from the Department of education and science Education (NO. 2) Bill, 1997.

You will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software to read these files.

Unfortunally the act is a bit of a let down when it comes to ensuring that childre with special needs have their requirements for special edcuation are met.

The act only states that it is the minister of edcutaion's responsibility to provide support services, not that it is the right of the special needs child to receive support services.

The Equal Status Act gives the following as one of its many definitions of disability as a condition or malfunction which results in a person learning differently from a person without the condition or malfunction.

Email : dyslexia@ireland.com

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