Ms Linda Whitmarsh:

We have not got a concrete answer. It has been kind of ignored. The matter has been brought up a couple of times. I feel that therapist assistants would be brilliant for everyone. In the case of a speech and language therapist, that person could focus on the devices and bridge that gap. The same would apply to occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Such people could do the paperwork to take the pressure off the therapists so they could provide actual intervention to the children.