Pilot in-school therapy to improve access to services

More than two dozen speech, language, and occupational therapists are to go into schools and pre-schools in a pilot project designed to improve and speed up access to services.

The 75 schools and 75 pre-schools involved in the one-year pilot from this autumn will be served by 19 speech and language therapists and 12 occupational therapists being recruited by the HSE.

The schools include a mix of urban and rural, mainstream and special schools, and are in the HSE community healthcare organisation region that includes west Dublin, Kildare, and west Wicklow.