Sinead Fitzpatrick Board Member

Sinead has a degree in English and History from National University of Ireland, Maynooth, a higher diploma in Linguistics from University College Dublin and a Msc. In Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Essex.

Sinead has over ten years’ experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist within the children’s disability sector. She is currently the Clinical Director of Therapy Services at ChildVision and specialises in providing clinical speech and language therapy services for children and young people with optical and neurological visual impairments. Sinead is currently working on expanding the national assessment and therapy services for ChildVision under the Progressing Disability Services (PDS) model.

Assessing for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children and young people with a visual impairment is a specific area of interest for Sinead. She is working on modifying assessment materials and ways of interpreting clinical observations which would be suitable for a visually impaired caseload.