Participant reference | M/F | Current role | Employer | Work setting | Professional experience |
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T1 | F | Class teacher | Education | Primary schoola (DEISb) | 4 years |
T2 | F | Class teacher | Education | Primary school | 6 years |
T3 | F | Resource teacherc | Education | Primary school (DEIS) | 6 years |
T4 | F | Resource teacher | Education | Language classd | 3.5 years |
T5 | M | Principal | Health | Primary school | 10 years |
SLT1 | F | SLT | Education | Secondary school | 4 years |
SLT2 | F | SLT | Health | Primary caree | 8 years |
SLT3 | F | SLT | Health | Primary care | 1 year |
SLT4 | F | SLT Manager | Health | Primary care | 11 years |
SLT5 | M | SLT | Health | Primary care | 7.5 years |
SLT6 | F | SLT | Health | Primary care | 2.5 years |
SLT7 | M | SLT | Health | Language class | 2 years |
SLT8 | F | SLT | Education | Secondary school | 9 years |
- T teacher, SLT speech and language therapist
- aIn Ireland, children attend primary school from the ages of five to twelve and secondary school from the age of 12 to 18
- bDEIS is an acronym for ‘Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools.’ It is a category of school within the Irish education system which serves a population of high social need, and is allocated additional resources
- cresource teacher is a teacher specifically responsible for the delivering of additional support for children with special education needs in schools in Ireland
- da ‘special’ class with reduced numbers of children in a mainstream school, all of whom have severe DLD. There is an SLT (employed from the local health service) assigned to the class, providing regular input
- eSLT provided in the community as part of a primary care team