Exclusive: HSE ordered to stop removing specialists from special needs schools
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 Columba's 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 Columba's, said: “I don’t think they set out to remove a resource. "I think [in] rolling out this service - which in general and in theor...
Source: newstalk.com