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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

THERAPY PROVISION &

ASSESSMENT OF NEED

THERAPY PROVISION

General

• Supports for Children with Asperger's Syndrome
• Therapy Services for Second Level Students with Autism
• Health Board Boundaries for organizing Therapy Services
• Progress filling 183 occupational therapy posts vacant at end of 2008
• National Working Group to establish Policy on Speech and Language Service Provision
• National Treatment Purchase Fund and Therapy provision
• Behavioural specialist support team
• Location of Additional Therapy Posts
• Additional Therapy posts announced in Budget 2009
• Employment of Therapists
• Number of children with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder currently receiving therapy in Counties Laois and Offaly
• Posts currently vacant including those in which therapists are on maternity leave on the early intervention team in Counties Laois and Offaly
• Number of persons waiting to receive a service or therapy
• Early intervention team in Co. Laois
• Policy on filling posts vacant as a result of on maternity leave
• Relaxing the criteria for therapists qualifying to practice
• Access to early intervention services for children with Down syndrome

Therapy Provision - direct replies from HSE

• Speech and language therapists in County Clare - September 2010
• Children in HSE South awaiting assessment by an occupational therapist or speech therapist - December 2010
• Transfer of terhapy provision from Dept. Education to Dept. Health - November 2010

Speech and Language therapy

• Adjournment Debate: Speech and Language Therapy for Children
• Speech & Language Therapists
• Speech & Language Therapy

• Familiscope: Speech and Language Therpay Services
• Speech and Language Therapy Services in North Clondalkin
• Speech and Language Therapy in Ballyfermot
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Speech Therapy Services in Dublin 24

• Speech and Language Therapy in Schools
• Adjournment Debate: Speech & Language Therapy Services and Housing Needs
• Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists in Laois
• Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists in Offaly
• Number of Speech and Language Therapists in Schools
• Waiting times for Speech and Language Therapy in Dublin City and County
• Children receiving Speech Therapy in Dublin 20
• Access to Speech therapy at Bandon Clinic, Co. Cork
• Speech and Langauge Therapists in Co. Clare
• Access to Speech and Language Therapy in Wicklow
• Other Oral Questions: Speech and Language Therapy
• ‘Release’ Speech and Language Therapy
• Speech therapists in Tipperary North
• Provision of Therapy Services
• Speech and Language Therapists in Primary Schools
• Commitment in Programme for Government regarding S&L Therapists and National Treatment Purchase Fund
• Shortage of Speech and Language Therapists
• Speech therapists in North Tipperary
• Numbers waiting for speech and language therapy in North Tipperary
• Shortage of speech therapists
• Funding provided directly to groups providing services
• Number of occupational and speech and language therapists working in Kildare and Wicklow
• Speech and language therapy vacancies
• An Evaluation of Special Classes for Pupils with Specific Speech and Language Disorder
• Speech and Language requirements in school
• More speech and language therapists
• National Panel to recruit speech and language therapists
• Improve pupil-teacher ratio and targets for psychological assessments and speech therapists
• Children with autism who have been referred to the Brothers of Charity Southern Services for speech and language therapy
• Psychological assessment and speech and language requirements in 2010 in all schools in County Kildare
• Issue of psychological assessment and speech and language requirements in 2010 in all schools throughout the country
• Full complement of speech and Language Therapists in Co. Kildare
• HSE Budget for payment in lieu of speech therapy
• Speech and Language Therapist at school in Waterford
• Adjournment Debate: Lack of Speech and Language Therapy at St. Josephs and St. Martin’s Schools in Waterford
• Policy on replacement of speech therapists in context of moratorium on recruitment
• School age disability speech and language therapy service in Dublin West
• Education (Amendment) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage: Section relating to children with disabilities (extracts)
• Transfer of responsibility for speech and language therapy to HSE from Education
• Speech and Language provision in mainstream schools
• Number of children on the waiting list for speech and language therapists by area and the average waiting time
• Number of speech and language therapists currently in the system

Occupational Therapy

• Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists in Mayo
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists in Mayo
• Occupational Therapy Waiting List for Children over 7
• Occupational Therapy Services at Kilkenny School
• Waiting times for Occupational Therapy in Dublin City and County
• Number of HSE staff in Clare in disability services and occupational therapy
• Occupational Therapy Waiting Times in Kildare
• Occupational Therapy Assessment Waiting Times for Kildare
• Occupational Therapists in Co. Wicklow
• Shortage of occupational therapists providing services to people with a disability
• Number of occupational and speech and language therapists working in Kildare and Wicklow

Physiotherapy

• Physiotherapists and HSE recruitment freeze
• Employment for Physiotherapists
• Retention of physiotherapists
• New Physiotherapy posts created in 2009
• Employment of physiotherapists
• Number of physiotherapists employed in each HSE region

Waiting Lists

• Waiting Lists

Psychology & Psychiatry

• Senior psychologists for St. Itas, Portrane
• Improve pupil-teacher ratio and targets for psychological assessments and speech therapists
• Psychological assessment and speech and language requirements in 2010 in all schools in County Kildare
• Issue of psychological assessment and speech and language requirements in 2010 in all schools throughout the country
• Child psychiatric services in County Kildare

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ASSESSMENT OF NEED

Right to Assessment of Need

• Independent Assessment of Need
• Assessment of Need Applications for Children under 5
• Commitment to Independent Assessment of Need for Children Under 5
• Assessment and Support for Parents of Children with Autism and Research on Autism
• Applications for an assessment of need
• Part 2 of Disability Act & Assessment of Need
• Minister for Health meeting information gathering requirements of the Disability Act re assessment of need
• Progress regarding number and timescale in providing assessments and service statements for children under five
• Rights to assessment for adults under Disability Act
• Number of children who have been assessed and diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the Mid-Leinster region in the past five years
• Steps a parent should take whose child demonstrates signs of disabilities

Waiting Lists

• Waiting Lists for Assessments
• Waiting lists for Assessments

• Waiting Time for Priority Assessment
• Waiting List for Repeat Assessments for Autistic Children in the Kerry area

• Assessments at St. Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork
• Waiting times for Assessment
• Number of assessment and liaison officers appointed to carry out functions under Part 2 of the Disability Act
• Average amount of time from when an application is received it is taking to complete an assessment under Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005
• Register of unmet need to identify demand for and availability of disability and health related services has been established as per obligations under the Disability Act 2005
• Number of children aged under five years for assessment of need applications
• Number of children who have been assessed and diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder in the mid-Leinster region in the past five years
• Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Laois and Offaly and waiting lists for therapy services and assessment

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