A new song and music video have been released to raise awareness around autism.<\/p>\n
‘I’m Okay’ was written by Dundalk secondary school teacher Pamela Campbell, who took inspiration from local children with autism.<\/p>\n
Ms Campbell, who teaches music and Irish at De La Salle College in the town said the song aims to promote acceptance.<\/p>\n
“The song’s message is simple but profound: people with autism are not broken, not lost, not in need of fixing.<\/p>\n
“They are okay. They see the world differently – and that difference deserves to be understood, accepted, and celebrated,” she said.<\/p>\n
The lyrics include the line “I’m okay, I’m doing fine. I just see this world through different eyes”.<\/p>\n
It was released to coincide with ‘World Autism Awareness Day’ earlier this month and the music video had its premiere at a special event in Dundalk this week.<\/p>\n
Ms Campbell said the video has had a great response since going live online.<\/p>\n
The song, which is sung by Zara Woods, is also dedicated to the memory of local boy, Daragh McNally, who died six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new song and music video have been released to raise awareness around autism. ‘I’m Okay’ was written…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-403562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}