Letter to the Editor: Our special needs child left high and dry by State

Victoria White’s column, ‘Happy 18th Tom, the State has just blown out candles on your fairytale’ (Irish Examiner, August 1), on education for children/young adults with no short measure of sympathy and understanding was pertinent to me. I am a pensioner and the proud grandfather of a gorgeous little boy with special needs. This is part of my story.

1: My grandson was diagnosed following the formal “assessment of needs” but only after over one and a half years following the request for this key assessment, and only then after a High Court case taken by a support group. The legal position is that an assessment of needs must but carried out within three months of application.