Teaching positions in Ireland

We lived and worked with people with special needs in Ireland for a year.  We also have a child with special needs ourselves who was enrolled in the local national school while we were in Ireland.  (We had a brief and horrible experience at a Steiner/Waldorf school but that's a whole other story...)

The national school was wonderful.  We chose the local school as opposed to the nearby 'special' school.

In general, we found there was a shortage of qualified therapy providers in Ireland.  However, we found that it was very difficult to get therapy services in the school system.  It's not like America where most parents of children with special needs order services from a menu.  I know many parents paid for private services.

I know of one private provider of therapy services in Kildare -- Sensational Kids.  That's where we took our daughter for private pt/ot/speech.  We do not need ABA but I assume those services are also mainly private pay ???

Hope this is helpful.

By the way -- when I was in Ireland with my Irish citizen husband, I was not legally able to work unless some employer was willing to state, on the record, that they could not find any Irish national to do the job first.  Furthermore, you must be living in the country for 3 years before receiving citizenship through marriage.  Not sure about applying while in the US because we have not yet taken the matter up for our children who would all qualify through having an Irish father.  Even in a high demand field like special ed, you may have trouble in the current Irish economy...

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