Children facing 'wall of indefinite waiting' for therapies, warns Inclusion Ireland

Talks are happening with the Department of Education to end school principals requiring an AON for pupils. File Picture.

A “frightening” number of children continue to wait as the number of assessment of need (AON) applications grows beyond system capacity, despite more being done for children with disabilities than previously, new data shows.

Inclusion Ireland warned that even when children get past this “institutional bottleneck”, they hit “a new wall of indefinite waiting” for therapies.