Finding Charlie's Voice

CEO & Chair of FindingCharliesVoice, an Irish Charity supporting all children and young adults with speech and language communication needs. CHY 22899

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

This is My Voice https://t.co/IO5ngakFY1 via @YouTube
Expect more.
Insist on more.
Your voice matters.
@HMcEntee @Education_Ire @iaslt #slcn #communication #access #1in10 @badcoyoteHQ

[Helen McEntee TD @HMcEntee]

Outlining some of my key priorities in the Programme for Government, as the Minister for Education and Youth.

@Education_Ire

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

Thrilled and honored to be awarded the privilege of being an Official Charity Partner of the GAA for 2025!
Where everyone deserves a level playing field - where we all belong - and where everyone has a voice! 2025 has started off on a high! Thank you @officialgaa

[The GAA @officialgaa]

The GAA is proud to announce its official charity partners for 2025 ⬇️

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

200,000 children in schools around Ireland have access to communication boards. There are an estimated 2-3 children in EVERY classroom with a communication need. We remain UNFUNDED ran entirely by volunteers. L
@AnneRabbitte @1Hildegarde @Education_Ire @ncseirl @SimonHarrisTD

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

Huge congratulations @Dromiskinns ! They look fantastic! Thanks again to the team at Horizon Digital Print and to @SafeCareTech and @tobidynavox #accessforall #communication #findingcharliesvoice

[Dromiskin NS @Dromiskinns]

Delighted to have our new playground communication boards from @FindingCharlie installed around the school grounds. Just in time for our first summer programme! So proud to support all forms of communication in St. Peter's. @AsIAmIreland @InclusionIre @dromiskinTT

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@irl_open @Education_Ire @1Hildegarde @NormaFoleyTD1 @SimonHarrisTD It’s systemic - also happens to many in mainstream who need specialist educational support - refused from language class for one reason , also refused from reading class for another - no ambition - what do I tell Charlie? They cared about your sister but they didn’t about you?

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@BishopHartyNS @BallymackeyF @Toomecamogie @ToomeGAA Well done @AlanMoynihan !!!

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@NaomhColmcille6 Well done Alan - you managed to suppprt so many schools and we were delighted to help in a teeny teeny way!

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@NAITScotland @Edinburgh_CC @PrestonfieldPS @ASLService @edinburghpaper @rcsltscot @LothianAutistic @LothianChildren @CALLScotland Lovely to see! Well done @BanburyLitho on getting it safely and to all the team at Cameron House Community Centre !

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@ms_bridodonnell giving us ALL the feels - tears - laughter - hope - this voice of the lived experience resonating with every single person in the room. So so honored to have you on our team xx

[AccidentalAdvocate @AccidentalAdvo1]

Now here's where it started to get messy .... when ambassador Bríd O' Donnell made the tears flow with a resounding account of living with #VerbalDyspraxia. The next few posts are dedicated to her (& her outstanding mum)

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@AccidentalAdvo1 Not sure how I held it together! I’m pretty sure that I cried for the vast majority of the last segment !!!

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@bsligo @AccidentalAdvo1 I hope the road to Heuston was straightforward! It was the best accidental meet up! Thrilled to bits to meet and hear first hand how their 6 communication boards are doing in their school! Brendan’s school is a testament to evolving what inclusion is all about

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@raisingrareness He fleeced me in @SmythsToysIRE afterwards!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@DrCiaraOToole fabulous to see this and at such an affordable rate! Hoping these will complement the @officialgaa communication boards we have designed too!!

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

We are part of that stat. 7 page appeal letter being sent today after refusal for specialist intervention - how many don’t have the patience, resources, energy to appeal and fight for a basic right to access meaningful education and an excellent education at that @josephamadigan

[Inclusion Ireland @InclusionIre]

45% of children with support needs are being failed by the educational system as they face multiple barriers to access their right to school. We expect our leaders to stand up and prioritise this with urgency - we are deeply disturbed by the Department of Education's @Education_Ire plan to remove the criteria enabling access to the support of special education teachers for children with ‘complex needs'. “We cannot do more with less” say the National Principal's Forum @ForumTeaching. Inclusion Ireland has written to the Department seeking an immediate meeting and clarification about these changes which have such potential serious consequences.

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[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@derrymcveigh What would your bday be without the thorn in your side @derrymcveigh ❤️❤️❤️

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

Extra tickets released but filling up fast! If attending please use the link to this FREE event -
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@daithideroiste @DavidGillick @AsIAmIreland @dervalmcd @AdamPHarris @LucanSpaHotel

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

Tickets are filling up to this FREE event! https://t.co/c0nx5JhuZW
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[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

@InclusionIre @AdamPHarris @dervalmcd @DavidGillick @AccidentalAdvo1 @iaslt @shanemoynihan @daithideroiste #powerofconnection

[Finding Charlie's Voice @FindingCharlie]

Join us for a morning of conversation about communication! Hear how you can apply for financial bursaries and listen to the experts, advocates and those living with communication difficulties! #slcn #communication #speechandlanguage #slcn

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