Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Caroline Poole:

No. I ring the social worker because he can be quite aggressive. When I tell them he is in crisis, I am advised to try this and try that, but there is no doctor or psychiatrist there. The psychiatrist who reviewed my daughter at the initial appointment is now out sick. The speech and language therapist is gone. It is hard to build a relationship with my daughter who struggles to talk. She has met somebody new and so she has to talk all over again. They tell her to try to eat. She cannot eat; she is unable. She does not know what is wrong with her. We now have a review appointment for her on the 13th. I will ring them in December when my son's script is finished so that it can be redone for another three months.

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