Language disorders disadvantaged</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Language disorders disadvantaged"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Language,disorders,disadvantaged"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">24-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Language disorders disadvantaged</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_d8gR5glbLsh31L7NUyn7_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Melbourne, Australia (The Age): Students with speech and language disorders will be disadvantaged by changes to State Government funding, according to the professional body for speech pathologists. <br>It also has concerns about a new program, which began last week, to train teachers to work with these students. "Teachers will be expected to deliver a language-disorder program, rather than funding being directed towards additional, specialised speech pathology services," says Speech Pathology Australia president Trish Bradd. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Education-News/Speech-pathology-switch-is-policy-on-the-run/2005/02/19/1108709446415.html " target="blank">www.theage.com.au/news/Education-News/Speech-pathology-switch-is-policy-on-the-run/2005/02/19/1108709446415.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show