Parents of deaf children have said they are “relieved and hopeful” after the Minister of State for Disability, Anne Rabbitte, paused the rollout of a scheme which would have meant that special schools lost their in-house speech and language therapists. Educators and parents had strongly opposed the removal of the on-site therapists from deaf schools, […]
I have a profoundly deaf child. My son is 11 years old and has bilateral cochlear implants, he received his first implant at age 4 and second at 5 and half. He was diagnosed late, even by the standards at the time, he was almost 2 and a half. Late diagnosis can have life long […]