Healthcare vital for severely disabled children

NICOLA KILBRIDE was an ordinary healthy infant until she suffered an epileptic attack at the age of three.

For no apparent reason, the Dublin girl gradually lost her speech, power and co-ordination in front of her baffled and heartbroken family over the next 18 months.

It took a further two years of various medical tests before Nicola was finally diagnosed as suffering from a little-known brain disorder called Landeau Kleffner Syndrome.