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Almost 3,000 Needs Assessments For Children With Disabilities Are Overdue.

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They're legally supposed to be finished within six months.

Over 2,900 needs assessments for children with disabilities are at least three months overdue completion.

They're legally supposed to be finished within six months.

Over 3,500 are overdue - and 83 per cent of those are at least three months late.

The assessments allow a child to be diagnosed with autism or another disability, and then get the care they need.

Lorraine Dempsey, is interim Chief Executive of Inclusion Ireland.

She joined Clem Ryan on Monday's edition of Kildare Today.

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