Disability Services
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-18
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Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF), Louth

I will break this into two parts. There is assessment and then ensuring there are therapies. We know a workforce planning piece needs to be done. I do not know how many times I have said that even if we get that piece right, it will take a number of years to have everybody in place, involving CDNTs, primary care and all the rest of it. We need to find the best means to provide the best service to the children and their families. There is that piece and also the assistive technologies particularly when we are talking about non-verbal children and augmentative and alternative communication devices, AAC. Beyond that, I know of people who have tried experimental therapies, if I may use that term. This is occupational therapy and speech and language therapy but further enhanced. Some of this is operated in labs, for want of a better term, abroad. It is just looking into what the best practice is.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-18