Speech therapy: Fears lack of sessions during Covid will affect children

"I need help to do the 'th' sound because when I do it, it doesn't come out right."

Speech and language therapy helped six-year-old Ed, from Denbighshire, with certain sounds, but the pandemic put a stop to that.

His mother Karen is concerned if intervention doesn't happen soon, it will disrupt his self-confidence and he will become too upset about it.

But Ed is just one of many children in north Wales to have their sessions disrupted after a report found the first Covid lockdown had a "devastating" effect.

Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which runs the NHS in north Wales, has apologised for the disruption and said staff were working hard to help everyone who missed out.

29 March 2022