'Constant battle': Mother of boy (8) with intellectual disability rejected for support
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 OâNeill, 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 OâNeill recently discovered that her son had been rejected in September last year, but no one had informed her of this rejection. She now must begin an appeals process, while ...
Source: irishtimes.com