ENSPIRED’s overall vision is to create a communicatively inclusive society across Ireland, with this research being the first step. Through authentic and meaningful collaboration with PPI contributors who live with communication disability and differences, and partner organisation representatives and policymakers, we aim to:  

• Establish a novel collaborative and sustainable network across the five HEIs delivering Speech and Language Therapy programmes and key partners (PPI experts; partner representatives; policymakers) on the island of Ireland. 
• Identify barriers to social inclusion and participation in Ireland as experienced by people living with communication disability and differences, and,
• Identify best-practice priorities with recommendations for delivering communication access rights and a roadmap for key implementation projects for people living with communication disabilities and differences on the island of Ireland.

Led by Dr Helen Kelly (University College Cork) and Dr Orla Duffy (Ulster University) we are delighted to be one of the successful recipients of the North-South Research Programme (Strand I). Our research team leads include Dr Caroline Jagoe (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Ruth McMenamin (NUI Galway), and Dr James Green (University of Limerick) with Rosalind Gray Rogers (Ulster University), Dr Áine Kearns (University of Limerick), Dr Molly Manning (University of Limerick), Dorothy Clarke (Ulster University) and Yvonne Fitzmaurice (NUI Galway). We are pleased to partner with the Irish Heart Foundation, Stroke Association NI, The Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Alzheimer’s Society UK, Galway Travellers Movement, and Irish Deaf Society.