EXTRACT: My professional and personal belief, to really improve lives through greater levels of education, and more specifically, to really disrupt our low socioeconomic trajectory, is that we need to move beyond just programs to intervene directly to improve language development. We need to understand the prevalence and cause of language and learning disorders and disabilities and treat the cause, in school.
This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change demographer and Research Fellow Dr Lisa Denny originally appeared in the Mercury Newspaper on Thursday 23 May 2019 as part of the Communicating: The Heart of Literacy series.