Children ‘paying the price’ for Covid pause on speech and language services

Children are already facing a' postcode lottery' for audiology and speech and language services

Children are “paying the price” for a pause on audiology and speech and language services during the Covid-19 pandemic, with tens of thousands waiting to access services that have yet to resume.

As new figures show that over one-third of children were waiting more than a year for audiology treatment and one fifth were waiting for an initial speech and language assessment in September, the HSE has confirmed there is no start date for the resumption of services.