How is COVID-19 impacting on vulnerable children and young people? Our submission to NHS England highlights how children’s speech & language therapy services in England are responding to the crisis & the new ways they're working to support vulnerable CYP bit.ly/3cjGd8o

Love this Maura Hunter

Just saying? Whole new world out there. No traffic, pollution etc.. Nature at its best ⁦Carlow Weather⁩ ⁦designlocker.ie⁩ ⁦Sean J Photography⁩ ⁦Emily Ahern⁩ ⁦The NCBA⁩

Have written to Senior & Junior ministers about the inexcusable exclusion of Psychology from Sharing the Vision oversight group, currently emailing opposition spokespersons about the same. Will be highlighting concerns about the panel system & DARE scheme to all politicians too

Worked my ass off in ICU the past few months alongside my colleagues, nurses, doctors, admin staff, porters, & cleaning staff while my family made sacrifices to accommodate my job. Micheál Martin Stephen Donnelly why are American tourists not quarantining on arrival to Ireland?

“GPs first noticed the increase in cases on Monday, July 7, according to a web platform that allows GPs to track community health issues, ⁦GPBuddy⁩ . The referrals + requests for tests have climbed steadily since” independent.ie/irish-news/new…

What’s Plan B for schools in Ireland?

With many thanks to Stephen Parsons for alerting RCSLT 💙 to it, this article by @OwenJones84 highlights research that shows poorer school pupils are more than twice as likely to have a speech, language or communication. need. 1/3 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The fucking New York Times ye fucking bogtrotters, we are a disgrace nytimes.com/reuters/2020/0…

Redeployment of therapists is misguided - letter from IASLT member Dr. Triona Sweeney in todays The Irish Times @triona_sweeney irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

Covid-19: Dept of Health notified of 430 new cases, including 212 in Dublin, and no further deaths

Aerial view of the slow protest by hauliers this morning on the #Mitchelstown to #Mallow road to highlight the condition of the road Pictures thanks to Shane O'Leary Munster Drone Services #CorkToday

Mallow River walkway and bike path completed earlier this week. A wonderful public amenity along the banks of the Blackwater in #Mallow Town. #ACTCorkCounty

☹️The terminological tangle that is Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis & Specific Language Impairment #SLI persists in our scholarly literature. #DLDSeeMe would be easier to enact if academics & clinicians adopted 1⃣ term. DISCUSS. ASHA Journals academy.pubs.asha.org/2020/10/jslhr-…

How times have changed Maura Hunter

Testing & tracing volumes now at alarming levels. Our highest daily tests now at 23,000. Community positivity reaching 10%. Close contacts averaging at 5 people. Tracing calls gone from less than 10K to now over 3OK per week. Please review New Year Plans to keep safe. HSE Ireland

Please support if you can this beautiful Cork/Canadian family are too young to give up gofundme.com/f/help-george-…

#IsThisOK?

Children's Health Ireland ignored appeals from the Ombudsman for information concerning a sick child whose parents had raised concerns about their care. At one stage CHI gnored a statutory request for information. ontheditch.com/childrens-heal…

"The closure of NDRC has been deeply disheartening to many in the entrepreneurial community" Dogpatch Labs CEO Patrick Walsh writes exclusively on the decision to shutter the state's start-up accelerator businesspost.ie/analysis-opini…