Previously, the AoN involved a team (usually physio, OT, SLT, psychology) assessing a child to get insight into the nature of their difficulties (2/n)
A thread on the Assessment of Need: the statutory process by which children whose parents have concerns about potential disability can be assessed.
The process has recently been changed by the HSE in a manner that is frankly appalling.
Explanation: (1/n)
Working with colleagues to finalise report on psychologists experiences of AON PTA
— Mark Smyth (@psychpolis) January 17, 2021
Prelim findings are conclusive & stark but not unexpected
\u27a1\ufe0fDoes not meet children's needs
\u27a1\ufe0fIs not fit for purpose
\u27a1\ufe0fWill result in longer intervention W/L
\u27a1\ufe0fShould be suspended immediately pic.twitter.com/7nP59B4hLP
Previously, the AoN involved a team (usually physio, OT, SLT, psychology) assessing a child to get insight into the nature of their difficulties (2/n)
Function is more important than diagnosis, but in our system diagnoses get you support.
(4/n)
In many parts of the country, including Dublin, this almost never happens.
91% of children do not get their assessments on time. (5/n)
https://t.co/LQseHEWj3u
In Jan 2020, the HSE produced a new Standard Operating Procedure for AoN.
It reduces the previous assessment involving multiple professionals to a single assessment lasting a maximum of 90 minutes, regardless of the child's needs. (6/n)
This is left for community disability teams, whose assessments are not subject to legal time limits (so the HSE cannot be sued).
https://t.co/zp5pgO0AHV
Instead, the HSE have reduced the AoN to a meaningless box ticking exercise which children must go through before being moved to another waiting list with no legal time limit. (9/n)
It is apparently more important that statutory obligations are "met" on paper than that children's needs are actually met in real life.
This is a State apology in waiting.
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There\u2019s this crazy horseshoe where where having a strong emphasis on human sinfulness just turns into a power washer that blasts all harm and wrong-doing down to the same level of things people (re: men) inevitably do given half a chance. https://t.co/BLOWzpf1RA
— Laura Robinson (@LauraRbnsn) February 13, 2021
On the one hand, there's a high standard of holiness. On the other hand, there's a model of growth that is basically "Try Harder to Mean it More." Identify the relevant scriptural truth & believe it with all of your sincerity so that you may access the Holy Spirit's help to obey.
Helping sincere believers believe and obey the Bible facts is pretty much all the Holy Spirit does these days, other than convict us of our sins in light of the Bible facts.
If you know you are sincere and hate your sin and believe the right Bible facts as hard as you can but continue to be enslaved to your pornography addiction, what else left for you to do? Just Really, Just Really, Just Really Trust God and Give it to Him?
To suggest that there are other strategies available sounds to those formed in this model of growth like one is also suggesting that the Bible is insufficient, but it also suggests something just as threatening- that there are aspects of reality that are not immediately apparent.
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... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:
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— Steve (@braidedmanga) November 17, 2020
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I wonder why...
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Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.
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