Practice Regulations & Competency Assurance

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR INSTITUTE’S Board of Competence Assurance and Practice Excellence monitors and implements the Practice and Ethics Directive for all Neuro Developmental Treatment Specialists available on the centralised enquiry system of Brain and Behaviour Enhancement Ireland.

The Board of Competence Assurance and Practice Excellence is chaired by Mr Donal O’Sullivan, Management Consultant. Other members include Educational and Health Practitioners.

All BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR ENHANCEMENT SPECIALISTS fully comply with the Directive hereunder. This is to reassure parents/guardians that their child is receiving a very high standard of professional care.

To maintain Specialist membership the following PRACTICE AND ETHICS DIRECTIVE is necessary:

  1. The Specialist will be expected to have attained a certain level of competence in:
    1. Detecting underlying physical factors in children with specific learning difficulties
    2. Understanding the implications of the above for the child and parents
    3. Designing Home Programme

    The Specialist will be required to take appropriate courses/programmes, organised by the Institute or by agents of the Institute, to attain the required level of practice competence. To qualify as a Neuro-Developmental Treatment Specialist a mark of 60% or higher is necessary in the Examinations. This is in addition to completing all assignments as per the Full Training Course programme. Trainees attaining below 60% performance will carry the designation of Trainee practitioner until they upgrade. Assessment Tests will be conducted once in a Calendar year to facilitate this.


  2. Specialists who wish to renew their Membership will be required, at two-yearly intervals, to undertake the Institute Assessment Tests and maintain the Standard set by the Institute.

  3. All Specialists will, per annum, do 15 hours learning and updating privately and 15 hours learning and updating in ‘in Clinic’ observation with others.

  4. The Trainee practitioner, while observing or doing practical work in clinic, will present him/herself in manner and deportment befitting a Professional Practitioner.

  5. The Trainee's or qualified Specialist’s place of practice will reflect that of a professional and be appropriate inside and outside.

  6. All Trainee and qualified Specialist related promotion (hardcopy, audio, wireless, etc.) will be forwarded to the Board of Practice Excellence (B.O.P.E.) for approval and the qualified Specialist will engage in public promotion only with the written approval of the Board. The Specialist will forward a hard copy of the actual promotion to the Board of Practice Excellence.

  7. The Board of Practice Excellence (B.O.P.E.) or members of the Board shall have the right to audit the Specialist’s professional work and appropriateness of the place of practice. They shall do this in such manner as not to unduly interfere with Specialist’s practice.
  8. All Trainees are also bound by the above.
The Practising Certificate (which always remains the property of the Board) will be withdrawn from the Specialist for breach of any of the terms of A, B, C, D, E, F and G outlined above. Renewal of the Practising Certificate will be considered by the B.O.P.E. only when fully satisfied that the former Trainee Practitioner or Specialist has ameliorated the situation.
 
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