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One child has been taken out of the school because of the lack of on-site clinicians with the relevant skills.

All Children’s Disability Network Teams which provide services to children with complex needs will be in place across the country by the end of the year, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Ireland is no country for the marginalized, but then that’s not news and hasn’t been for some considerable time, and the most marginalized are those with a disability. Ireland's government is failing our disabled population.

Im going to shout very loud for Penelope: Mother will protest at Dáil to highlight daughters plight Katie Healy Nolan is a full-time carer for Penelope, 4, who has a life-limiting illness called pontocerebellar hypoplasia, a rare neurodegenerative disorder Katie Healy Nolan is a full time carer for her daughter. Picture: Katie Healy Nolan/Instagram Thu, 13 May, 2021 - 20:30 Steve Neville A woman living in Cork is calling for a meeting with the Taoiseach to highlight the needs of her daughter,...

The Hard Shoulder is calling on the Government to Give Them A Voice. In recent weeks, the show has been highlighting the waiting lists for speech and language assessments and therapies, as well as the impact any delays can have on the development and education of children. In highlighting these issues, the goal is to ensure a better service for the children who desperately need these services. Newstalk under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that a total of 16,466 children are on the wait...

  A mother from Cork has been left scrambling for mental health services for her son, who has an intellectual disability and autism, after the HSE forgot to send out a rejection letter saying he was not accepted to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Trish O’Neill, who lives in Donoughmore in Cork, has been trying to get her eight-year-old son, Conor, onto the CAMHS team since August 2020. Ms O’Neill recently discovered that her son had been rejected in September las...

Newstalk’s Kacey O’Riordan reported about how the Holy Family School for the Deaf in Dublin was on the verge of losing their on-site speech and language therapist. This week, the principal and parents of St Columbas National School in Douglas - which has a deaf unit with 34 children - have been speaking about how they suddenly lost their speech and language therapist who came to the school two mornings a week. Triona Fitzgerald, the principal of St Columbas, said: “I don’t think they se...