Sep 15, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
Róisín is a Speech and Language Therapist with over a decade of experience supporting children and families across Ireland, the United Kingdom and Singapore. She currently works on a Children’s…
Róisín FarrellGuest
Amanda McGuinnessHost
I listen to it all the time, and like you mentioned, yeah, it, I think it was maybe 2015 when we first met, and I was working with Conor as a newly qualified speech and language therapist.
And I suppose things have changed so much since then, but I, I still remember Conor so well, and it was such a privilege to work with him at the time.
So, I remember at the time we were talking a lot about autism and learning so much, and we had discussed maybe doing some kind of work to advocate or w-
But then I ended up moving overseas to Singapore to work over there for a couple of years.
I was there for a few years and, and in the meantime, I think you were doing incredible work in Ireland, and I saw you popping up in lots of different places.
I was working in a school at the time, and one of my colleagues, a psychologist, sent the team a lovely social story about COVID and about wearing masks, and then I noticed that it, that the social story was actually-
So, it was incredible to see all the work that you're doing and that you're still doing, and yeah, just I'm delighted to be back here with you 10 years later.
But h- honestly, and, and I, I, I actually think there could be an older blog post on Little Pudding somewhere where, where I speak about Conor going to see you, and there was a lovely photo, I'm sure I still have it somewhere, where he's looking at me for the first time, like, as in he was...
I think it was could have been our first appointment with yourself, and he was looking at me, this gorgeous beaming face of like, "This lady, she totally understands me, mom.
She totally gets me, mom." And, and I remember, you remember you used to have, like, this little bath of water play that he used to love, and you'd have it over at the little sink.
And he was just, it was the first time personally that I had seen, I suppose what people talk about now is neuroaffirmative practice.
Maybe the word was popularized somewhere else, but I certainly wasn't aware of the word back in those days.
I listen to it all the time, and like you mentioned, yeah, it, I think it was maybe 2015 when we first met, and I was working with Conor as a newly qualified speech and language therapist.
And I suppose things have changed so much since then, but I, I still remember Conor so well, and it was such a privilege to work with him at the time.
So, I remember at the time we were talking a lot about autism and learning so much, and we had discussed maybe doing some kind of work to advocate or w-
But then I ended up moving overseas to Singapore to work over there for a couple of years.
I was there for a few years and, and in the meantime, I think you were doing incredible work in Ireland, and I saw you popping up in lots of different places.
I was working in a school at the time, and one of my colleagues, a psychologist, sent the team a lovely social story about COVID and about wearing masks, and then I noticed that it, that the social story was actually-
So, it was incredible to see all the work that you're doing and that you're still doing, and yeah, just I'm delighted to be back here with you 10 years later.
But h- honestly, and, and I, I, I actually think there could be an older blog post on Little Pudding somewhere where, where I speak about Conor going to see you, and there was a lovely photo, I'm sure I still have it somewhere, where he's looking at me for the first time, like, as in he was...
I think it was could have been our first appointment with yourself, and he was looking at me, this gorgeous beaming face of like, "This lady, she totally understands me, mom.
She totally gets me, mom." And, and I remember, you remember you used to have, like, this little bath of water play that he used to love, and you'd have it over at the little sink.
And he was just, it was the first time personally that I had seen, I suppose what people talk about now is neuroaffirmative practice.
Maybe the word was popularized somewhere else, but I certainly wasn't aware of the word back in those days.
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