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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

May The King's Speech raise a cry for more school therapists

Kathy Evans, (author of Tuesday's Child) writes about the availability of speech therapy in Victoria, in today's Age and Sydney Morning Herald - she could be talking about New South Wales.

I have my fingers crossed that The King's Speech, which swept the BAFTAs at the weekend, also claims most of the Oscars later this month, and in doing so catapults the importance of speech therapists to the upper echelons of a society inhabited these days by real estate agents and chief executives.
Access to speech therapy for school-age children is pretty hard to come by in Victoria, we are discovering. My partner and I have a seven-year-old daughter with Down syndrome who is wonderfully articulate, but not in a way that always makes sense.

... read the whole article online here.

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