I READ with great sadness your article "Kids lose on speech therapy" (November 15) about the state of affairs in Northern Tasmania in that a child may have to wait 12 months for "early intervention" with speech therapy.
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Although I am in the US and this situation described in the article is in Australia, I can categorically say that every nation on the face of the earth needs to pay more attention to the treatment of child speech therapy, and this of course means more funding.
Tasmania is in Australia, and I find fault with aspects of the child speech therapy policy in the US.
The US and Australia are "developed" nations; just think about the sad state of affairs for children with speech issues in poor nations in Africa, Latin America or anywhere.
Since stuttering is the most common of child speech problems, I would like to mention to your readers that a non-profit charity here in the US offers diverse resources that can be accessed for free from anywhere in the world.
The Stuttering Foundation (www.stutteringhelp.org) has a website that gives so many helpful resources that are free. The site also has helpful material for the parents of children who stutter, too.
— LAURA PALMER, Houston, Texas.
