With assistance of a $50 000 grant from the Federal Department of Education, Science and Technology (DEST), a Charles Sturt University (CSU) PhD student who is visiting Albury this week is helping Malaysia develop community-based speech and language services to be available to all its citizens. CSU student Sandra Van Dort said Malaysia’s speech pathology services are currently only available to people who can afford private clinics or who live near major hospitals in large Malaysian cities. “I am investigating how, together with groups such as children with affected speech, their parents, speech pathology students, speech pathologists, universities and the broader Malaysian community, these services can be provided throughout the country.” The CSU researcher and her supervisor, Associate Professor Lindy Mcallister, will meet next week with Ms Denise Miles from New South Global, which manages the Endeavour Asia Awards for DEST.