In this episode of Courageous Dialogues, Mala Ferdinando from Speech Pathology for Schools talks about the collaboration between speech pathologists and schools. Passionate about embedding speech pathology into school context and the idea that for schools to thrive we need to focus on being connected. 

Amongst the questions posed Mala was asked about her thoughts on the following statement:

Schools need to focus more on speech than reading and writing within the curriculum to lift standards of education in Australia.