Delay in diagnosis may impact a child’s development for life

In some cases, this delay in providing services to a young child will impact the child’s development for life.

How sad it is that in two separate cases revealed by Noel Baker in this newspaper, the High Court has given leave to the parents of autistic four-year-old children to apply for aggravated damages against the HSE because they claim their kids’ diagnoses were delayed.

Meanwhile, several cases already brought to court this year have resulted in the HSE being directed to carry out assessments of need within six weeks.