Building post-primary school teachers' capacity to support student organisational skill difficulties: A collaborative occupational therapy and education intervention.

Small convenience sample of 21 teachers who had volunteered for the training, so they were likely already interested in the programme. The authors say this limits how far the findings generalise. Response rates fell across the three surveys, so different numbers of teachers answered each one and the themes rest on different people at different timepoints. No student outcomes were measured at all, so nothing here shows the programme improved students' organisation or their participation in school. The surveys were written for this study and were not piloted before use. Data were collected during COVID-19, when school routines had changed and some lessons could not be delivered as written, and only online surveys were used, so there were no interviews to probe the answers.

The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The Getting It Together programme was developed by occupational therapists in the Occupational Therapy Support Service for Schools Project at the University of Limerick, and that project is funded by the National Council for Special Education, the same agency that ran the training.

Do not read this as evidence that the Getting It Together programme improves students' organisation or school participation. The study asked teachers what they thought and what they did; no student outcomes were measured, and the teachers had volunteered for the training.