Ming (Agents of Speech) explains why many people face long waits for public speech therapy services: a pre-existing shortage was worsened by a roughly two-year COVID interruption in assessments and services, producing multi-year backlogs. The speaker urges listeners to understand delays are systemic (not the caregiver's fault) and acknowledges the emotional difficulty and self-doubt that families experience while waiting.
Are you waiting for speech therapy services? Are you in line of a wait list that is like one or two years long? In some countries it might go on to three years. There's this huge backlog of speech therapy services especially in the public sector and government services and so forth. The reason is because of COVID Covid has created a two year bubble where we couldn't go out and do assessments for children and what that happened was like that two year will never get caught up because to be very honest with you, it was already lagging behind before COVID and now Covid hit. All therapy service will be backlogged and that's why during this wait time whether you will get services or not and to what extent of service you will get that should be something that is not controllable to you. But the first thing you need to understand. No, it's a very hard journey. There's a lot of times that you will doubt yourself and you think it's your fault.
