EXTRACT: There was just so much that he simply didn’t know because he hadn’t been able to draw up that information from a lifetime of reading. When we cracked into the sound problem that he had [the sound processing problem] he was able to bring all of that intelligence and understanding and knowledge he had of the world and access more information through this new capacity, this new skill of being able to read.
ABC 936 Hobart’s Ryk Goddard interviews Rosie Martin about the Just Sentences pilot program, which is helping to increase the level of literacy in Tasmania’s prison.