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Tue 01 Jan 2007Boy (16) secures orders for therapiesA teenage boy with a moderate learning disability has secured leave from the High Court to seek orders requiring the State and HSE to provide him with adequate appropriate physical, speech and language therapies.John Hanlon, for the teenager, told Mr Justice Michael Peart yesterday that the boy, now aged 16, has a moderate learning disability and is attending a special school.