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Róisín Farrell

Róisín Farrell

Speech and Language Therapist in Ireland specializing in AAC, working on an HSE Children's Disability Network Team and guest on The Autism Educator Podcast.

Sep 15, 2026

4:34
That's right
4:34
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4:34
System, which was a, a system to kind of request for things that, that the child wanted.
4:39
Um, and I think we've really kind of moved away from that now for a number of reasons.
4:43
I think one of the reasons is, you know, it's, it's really just focused on requesting, you know, asking for things that you want, and there's so many more things that we can communicate for, you know, to say, "I don't want something," or, "I don't like that," or, "This is cool," or, "This is fun," or, "I want to move," or, "I need a break," or, you know, "I'm happy," "I'm sad," "This is boring." There's so many different reasons why we communicate, and we need to have, I suppose, a way, we want children to have a way to express all of their different needs right from the beginning.
5:10
And so that was one of, I suppose, the limitations of, of the previous systems.
5:14
Um, the other thing, I suppose, that we always want is for the child to be able to communicate what they want to say whenev- in whatever way they want to say it.

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