Jacqueline Beirne, Chartered Special Needs Consultant

01/17/2026

Advocacy Summit on Supported Decision Making - Thursday, January 29, 6:00 - 7:30 PM (Virtual). Learn how you can use your voice to help lawmakers understand the importance of SDM! Register here: https://ow.ly/M2TL50XVMrz

12/16/2025

Before we can help people grow, we must give them the right to choose how!

11/30/2025

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11/14/2025

Here is a list of support apps for various needs:

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2022/07/a-handy-chart-featuring-over-30-ipad.html

11/14/2025

Wonderful ideas for inclusion! 💙🤍

These small switches mean a lot to non-binary parents/caregivers, kids whose parents have recently passed away, kids being raised by extended family, kids in foster care, kids being raised by single parents by choice, and the list goes on and on. Our students’ families are an endless combination of beautiful diversity. Don’t exclude any family at your school events.

11/14/2025

CT LOCALS! Check out this great event hosted by Yale😁

We hope to see you at the Yale ASL Open House! Sunday, November 16, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. 100 Dow Hall, 370 Temple Street, New Haven, CT.

11/13/2025

11/12/2025

Youth with disabilities are disproportionately locked up!

More than two-thirds of confined youth met the study’s criteria for neurodivergence.

ADD/ADHD: 60% of youth in custody compared to 11% of youth nationally;

Learning disabilities: 27% of youth in custody compared to 8% of youth nationally; and,

Autism: 4% of youth in custody compared to 1.7% of youth nationally.

My mission is to help families INTERRUPT this trend with knowledge, support, and training!