Letters to the editor: Ireland lags behind in speech therapy

Disheartening to see the number on waiting lists for basic health service needs

Thousands of children are on waiting lists for speech therapy.

Here in the US the majority of the time the news on television and in print is negative. Unfortunately for me, it seems to be the same in Ireland. I am a Cork native and regularly surf the websites of the Irish Examiner and other Irish dailies.

So many times in the last six or seven years I have read distressing articles about thousands of children waiting and waiting on lists for speech therapy.