Other organisations supporting people with intellectual disabilities and autism, including some whose services overlap with their needs and interests. Practical supports such as Advocacy, Family support, Training, Events, and Social programmes.
Republic of Ireland
Inclusion Ireland (Nationwide)
Inclusion Ireland is the National Association for People with an Intellectual Disability.
It works towards the full inclusion of people with an intellectual disability by supporting people to have their voices heard and advocating for rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
Information available at Inclusion Ireland includes:
Health and Social Care Supports, Assisted Decision-Making, Employment, Housing, Self Advocacy, Education, Future Planning, Income and Supports, and Voting.
Ability West (Galway)
Ability West provides a wide range of disability support services to people with complex intellectual, physical and multiple disabilities.
Active Disability Ireland (Nationwide ROI)
Committed to achieving equal opportunities for people with a disability to participate in physical activities of their choice.
Arch Clubs (16 Counties in ROI)
Arch Clubs are a social outlet for children and adults with additional needs, offering ongoing opportunities to enhance social skills, personal awareness, and physical fitness.
AsIAm (Nationwide ROI)
AsIAm is Ireland’s Autism charity. It provides evidence-based advice, resources, and guidance that the community can trust. It endeavours to make Irish Society a more inclusive and accepting place, where Autistic people have the same chance.
BeeUtiful Minds (Primarily Dublin Area)
BeeUtiful Mind provides neuro-affirming support, training and coaching for neurodivergent children, teens, families and educators, promoting inclusive, supportive environments through therapeutic programmes, assessments, education and community-based services in Ireland.
Before We Die (Nationwide ROI)
Before We Die (BWD) is a parents lobby group urgently campaigning for the Government to fund and deliver residential places for adults with intellectual disability.
Camphill Communities of Ireland (Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Kerry, Monaghan, Tipperary, Wexford)
Camphill Communtities Of Ireland
Camphill create inclusive environments where people can thrive, build relationships, develop skills, and participate fully in community life: Residential homes, day supports, and social initiatives.
www.camphill.ie
Caring & Sharing Association (Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Longford and Wicklow)
Caring & Sharing Association (CASA) helps people with disabilities to develop social networks and friendships through weekly and monthly social activities for members across a network of 20 branches nationwide.
Children's Disability Network (Nationwide ROI)
Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNT) support children up to age 18 who have complex needs. They work with families and children who need a lot of day-to-day support due to an illness, disability or sensory impairment.
Find your local CDNT www2.hse.ie/
Clann Mór (Meath)
Clann Mór is a community-based organisation that provides supported living and social inclusion services for adults with intellectual disabilities. It operates mainly in Navan and surrounding areas, helping individuals to live independently and engage actively in their communities. Mór offers a range of supports under the Health Service Executive’s funding framework. Services include residential and outreach supports, community integration activities, and personal development programmes. The focus is on empowering service users to make choices and develop skills that enhance their independence and quality of life.
CoAction West Cork CLG (West Cork)
CoAction West Cork CLG
Adult and Children’s services, CDNT, and activities.
Residential, respite, day services, Summer Camp, Saturday Club
Website
Collective Sensory Group (Wexford)
Collective Sensory Group
Wide range of supports such as therapy, day service and respite for children and young adults.
Cork Sports Partnership (Cork)
Cork Sports Partnership
Clubs and organisations which facilitate inclusion in sport, yoga and movement, meeting the needs of people across a broad range of physical and intellectual disability.
www.corksports.ie Sports Ability Data Page
Corlann (ROI)
Brothers of Charity support people with disabilities in day care centres, nursery schools, education and development centres, social enterprises, supported employment and supported living services and activity centres.
Crann (Primarily Cork & Kerry)
Crann provide life-long, life-changing supports for neuro-physical conditions including Spina Bifida, Hydrocephalus, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Arthrogryposis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke and Multiple Sclerosis.
Donegal Horizons CLG (Donegal)
Donegal Horizons CLG
Primarily a training organisation for school leavers and adults of all ages
Website
Down Syndrome Ireland (Nationwide ROI)
Down Syndrome Ireland has a national office and 25 branches nationwide. It provides all-through life supports to people with Down Syndrome and their families across Ireland.
Down Syndrome Centre (Cork, Dublin, Laois, Monaghan)
Services for children up to age 18 and their families including together academy (Dublin) employment initiative.
Down Syndrome Centre
Down Syndrome Centre (Cork)
Services for children up to age 18 and their families
Down Syndrome Centre Cork
Down Syndrome Centre Midlands (Portlaoise)
Services for children with Down Syndrome and their families
Midlands Down Syndrome Centre
Enable Ireland (Nationwide ROI)
Enable Ireland are a national disabilities services provider operating in 14 counties across Ireland and providing services to children and adults with physical, sensory, intellectual disabilities and autism.
Festina Lente (Bray with Nationwide ROI reach)
Festina Lente is a Bray based charity that uses horses, horticulture and community-based learning programmes to promote social inclusion, personal development and employment opportunities for people facing barriers to participation.
Website
Foróige Youth Groups Nationwide (ROI)
Foróige clubs run programmes focused on skills development outside of a school setting. Mentoring, entrepreneurship, digitals skills and more.
Find Your Local Foróige Club
Headway (Nationwide ROI)
Headway provide community-based rehabilitation support services and information for adults who are affected by a brain injury. Headway have centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and the Mid-West, Carlow and Tralee, and provide nationwide information and support.
Horizons (Cork)
Horizons Cork (formally COPE Foundation) is a leading disability charity based in Cork supporting more than 3,500 children and adults with an intellectual disability and additional needs such as autism or physical and medical conditions. We work in partnership with them, their families and local communities, to provide a range of person centred services and supports.
Hub 21
Hub 21 (the new name for Down Syndrome Centre North East) provides subsidised essential services to individuals with Down Syndrome and their families in the NE of Ireland.
Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association (ROI)
Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association (IMNDA)
The IMNDA Supports people with Motor Neurone Disease through care, research, education and specialised services, while raising public awareness and contributing to international efforts to improve treatment and patient support.
(ROI) www.imnda.ie
Irish Society for Autism
Irish Society for Austism is the longest established dedicated organisation for Autistic people in Ireland.
Information, education programmes, training and more.
Irish Wheelchair Association (Nationwide ROI)
The IrishWheelchair Association website provides information on a wide range of topics relevant to persons with a disability including:
IWA Community Centres, Holidays, Housing, Motoring, Sport, Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids, Disability Awareness Training, Employment Skills Programme.
Kare (Kildare, East Offaly and West Wicklow)
Kare delivers a wide range of community-based supports to children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
www.kare.ie
L'Arche (Cork and Kilkenny)
L’Arche offers services to people with various disability diagnoses and support needs. Disability diagnoses include Intellectual Disability, ASD, Autism, Physical Disability, Sensory Disability, and Mental Health Support needs.
St. Michael's House (Dublin, Wicklow, Meath, Kildare,)
St. Michael’s House provides a comprehensive range of services and supports to adults and children with disabilities and their families in 170 locations in the greater Dublin Area.
Muiríosa Foundation (Kildare, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Meath)
The Muiríosa Foundation is an Irish not-for-profit organisation that provides services and supports to people with intellectual disabilities and their families. It operates primarily in the Midlands and Eastern regions of Ireland, focusing on inclusion, personal autonomy, and community-based living. The foundation’s work is guided by a person-centred approach to enhance quality of life and independence. It is part of the HSE service framework.
Service ares: Counties Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Longford, Kildare and Meath
www.muiriosa.ie
National Advocacy Service (Nationwide ROI)
The National Advocacy Service For people with Disabilities provide a free and independent representative advocacy service to adults with disabilities across Ireland.
NEON Ireland (Wexford)
Neon Offers School Places And Occupational Therapy For Children With Additional Needs Who Can’t Obtain An Appropriate School Place Or Struggle With The Mainstream School System.
neonireland.com
Offaly Down Syndrome Association
Services and supports for individuals with Down Syndrome
Offaly Down Syndrome Facebook
Positive Futures (ROI)
Positive Futures is a learning disability, brain injury and autism charity supporting people across the island of Ireland.
Praxis Care (All of Ireland)
Praxis Care provides professional supports to individuals with mental ill health, autism, learning disabilities and dementia, particularly at the higher level of complexity.
Prosper Meath (Meath)
Prosper Meath provides Day Services to adults with an intellectual disability in 22 locations in County Meath and County Fingal. It is a ‘not-for-profit’ community organisation with charitable status, committed to improving the lives of people with disabilities and their place in society.
Prosper Meath operates from local centres in the towns of Navan, Trim, Kells and Ashbourne. Its primary funding comes from the HSE.
Rainbow Club (Cork)
Rainbow Club Cork Centre for Autism supports children, teens and adults and their families by bridging the gap in services and activities.
Rehab Group (Nationwide ROI)
The Rehab Group support people with an intellectual disability to lead more independent lives and play an active and meaningful role in their communities through providing care services, learning, training and education, and employment skills and opportunities.
Find your group here:
Special Olympics Ireland, Special Olympics Ulster
Special Olympics Ireland provides year-round sports training, athletic competition, and developmental programmes for almost 7000 athletes annually. We give our athletes continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
www.specialolympics.ie
Stewarts Care (Dublin, Meath, Kildare)
Stewarts Care provide a broad range of community-based services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families.
Website
St. John of God (4 Regions)
Saint John of God Community Services provide a range of day, residential respite services for people with intellectual disabilities. We provide these services at our four regions in Ireland.
Dublin South East Services
Liffey Services
Kerry Services
North East Services
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Northern Ireland
Camphill Communities Northern Ireland (Down, Tyrone)
Camphill Communtities Of Ireland
Camphill create inclusive environments where people can thrive, build relationships, develop skills, and participate fully in community life: Residential homes, day supports, and social initiatives.
Omagh www.camphillclanabogan.com
Glencraig www.glencraig.org.uk
Holywood www.camphillholywood.co.uk
Mournegrange www.camphillmournegrange.org
Down's Syndrome Association DSA (NI)
The Down’s Syndrome Association (UK Website Northern Ireland) supports people with Down’s syndrome and their families. It promotes awareness, inclusion, and access to services across Northern Ireland through information, advocacy, and community initiatives.
Garden of Music (NI)
Garden of Music build partnerships with arts organisations and educational establishments and, through a collaborative approach, work towards developing new, accessible and inclusive musical opportunities, for everyone in the community.
Garden of Music
Motor Neuron Disease Association (NI)
Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association (IMNDA)
The IMNDA Supports people with Motor Neurone Disease through care, research, education and specialised services, while raising public awareness and contributing to international efforts to improve treatment and patient support
(Northern Ireland) www.mndani.com
Mencap (NI)
Mencap Network Partners (Local groups affiliated with Mencap) from large scale service providers to small social groups who aim to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and to increase the opportunities available to them in their local areas.
Find your local group through this link:
www.mencap.org.uk
Middletown Centre For Autism (Armagh)
Supporting Autistic Children, Young People and their Families Through Expert Training and Research
Our training and resources are evidence-based, neurodiversity-informed and autism-affirming. They are designed for parents, carers and educational professionals of all neurotypes across Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Orchardville (Ards and North Down; Belfast; Derry, Limavaddy and Strabane; Lisburn and Castlerea)
Training, employment and social participation for adults with learning disabilities; social and recreational groups.
Orchardville
Positive Futures (NI)
Positive Futures is a learning disability, brain injury and autism charity supporting people across the island of Ireland
Together 21 Northern Ireland (Down's Syndrome)
Together 21 Northern Ireland
A parent-led group supporting families from across Northern Ireland, with activities based in Belfast. Its primary focus is children with Down syndrome from birth to around age 10. Parents and carers receive guidance, peer support, and signposting to health, education, and special educational needs services.
Together 21 Northern Ireland