Help is on the way for Mandarin- speaking children who suffer from speech impairments in Beijing as Australian experts will on Sunday begin a month-long training course for Chinese speech pathologists.

The International Centre for Child Language Health (ICCLH), a partnership between the Beijing Language and Culture University and Australia's Macquarie University in Sydney, will hold a Summer Institute on "Training Courses for Speech Pathologists" in Beijing from July 7 to 23, 2013.

The Institute is sponsored by the China Disabled Person's Federation, and will be the first of its kind in China, bringing together researchers, teachers, clinicians and medical practitioners.

"There is a growing cohort of speech pathologists in China. .. It is very exciting to be involved in setting up this professional training," said ICCLH Director Stephen Crain.

"The best part of my job is bringing talented people together, and organizing events like this Summer Institute, to benefit children across the world," he added.

Held at the Beijing Haidian Special Education School, institute researchers will have access to children with a variety of language disorders, and will prescribe individual treatment plans with the involvement of parents.