Simple actions to help young people with disabilities

Sir, – Selena McCoy and Eamon Carroll’s thought-provoking research on post-school options for young people with disability raises several important issues for our society in (“School-leavers with disabilities have lots to offer – we must do more to support them”, Education, April 7th).

The article highlights the sense that young people with disability have so much more to give and so much to contribute to society if only their voices could be heard and their abilities recognised. The sense of exhaustion from parents and the most marginalised young people themselves of fighting endless small battles to avail of what everyone else gets without asking.

How simple practical actions like providing transport post-school would be empowering and enabling.

How parents and young people with disabilities are constantly fighting to remedy the ills and bias of yesterday before they can focus on today, let alone what they would like to do after school. – Yours, etc,