{"id":5568,"date":"2018-02-28T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2022-02-13T01:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T01:18:58","slug":"say-it-hear-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/say-it-hear-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"SAY IT HEAR IT NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ever had to wait for a diagnosis or treatment, even though you\u2019ve been assessed?\u00a0 Frustrating, isn\u2019t it? It can be costly for the health care system too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A simple change to legislation would allow qualified speech pathologists and audiologists to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients, leading to better lives faster. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The fact is you never know when you might face a challenge with speech or hearing \u2013 aging, illness or accident are all causes that can suddenly impact your ability to hear and speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Timely diagnosis and treatment relieves pain, anxiety, and frustration, and it makes our health care system more responsive and cost effective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ask your MPP to support more responsive and cost effective health care. @SamOosterhoff #OnPoli #SayItHearItNow\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/press-release-osla.pdf\">press-release-osla<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever had to wait for a diagnosis or treatment, even though you\u2019ve been assessed?\u00a0 Frustrating, isn\u2019t it? It can be costly for the health care system too. A simple change to legislation would allow qualified speech pathologists and audiologists to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients, leading to better lives faster. The fact is you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oapac.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}