“Parents often feel isolated and uncertain of how to proceed if they can’t get the right speech and language support for their children”, says a Dundee-based charity.
This is ADHD awareness month and we have just had autism hour and mental health awareness week. So, given this convergence of issues, I thought I should use my guest appearance in the columnist slot to highlight these issues which are very important to me.
An Edinburgh father has spoken of how he suffered mentally after feeling pressured by society to have a child because it was the 'next big milestone' in his life.
NHS Lanarkshire is failing to meet potentially lifesaving targets on breast screening after it emerged only 68 per cent of eligible patients are being tested.
Minimum alcohol pricing is showing early signs of success that, if they continue, should improve public health and cut crime, particularly public and domestic violence, writes Tom Wood.
HC-One’s Springfield Bank care home in Bonnyrigg has launched its new Memory Care Community Suite, which will provide a luxury living environment for older people living with dementia.
Scotland’s poor survival rates from sudden cardiac arrests could be dramatically improved by a new law which would require defibrillators to be registered with the ambulance service.
Nicola Sturgeon has agreed to personally intervene to ensure a leading mesh removal surgeon is brought from America to Scotland to operate on women suffering "agonising pain", after Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw almost broke down in First Minister's Questions as he pleaded with her to act.
