Ms Deirdre Archbold:

An unexpected, lovely surprise from the club is that the parents support one another because we are all there with all our children, special needs and mainstream children. We are there together. For those starting on the journey we say, "Here you are. This is what you do." My child is 18. Ger's children are 22 and 18. These issues have been going on since my child was diagnosed when he was three and a half. I was counting when Mr. Darmody was speaking. I reckon he has had about eight different occupational therapists, OTs. His speech therapist is the same. At our last family meeting he had a new social worker and a new OT.

He never needed physiotherapists. I did not even know they had changed. They were gone. They had left.