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Speak Out August 2013 35
Congratulations to our award winners!
A t the SPA National Conference on the Gold
Coast, a number of Victorian Branch members’
achievements were recognised. We congratulate
and honour these members!
Dr Amanda Scott’s long and outstanding contribution to
the profession was rewarded with a Fellowship award.
This honour is awarded to a person with considerable
experience, responsibility and standing within the speech
pathology profession.
Amanda is a greatly admired speech pathologist with
more than 30 years’ experience. She is a highly regarded
clinician, researcher and educator who has actively
and generously shared her expertise with many speech
pathologists.
A big congratulations to Amanda!
We also wish to extend our congratulations to Victorian
members Shane Erickson and Susan Block who won the
2012 JCPSLP Editor's Prize, sponsored by ACER.
Shane and Susan were two of the authors of Stand-alone
Internet speech restructuring treatment for adults who
stutter: A pilot study (published in The Journal of Clinical
Practice in Speech-Language Pathology (JCPSLP) in
Volume 14, number 3, 2012) which was judged by the
JCPSLP Editorial Committee to be of the highest merit
in 2012.
To read more about Amanda's Fellowship Award and the
JCPSLP Editor's Prize, please see page 7.
We also would like to pass on our congratulations to
Megan Howe and Zoe Stewart-Johns from La Trobe
University who were both awarded SPA Student Awards
for their hard work throughout their studies.
Megan and Zoe will each receive their award at the
2013 Faculty of Health Sciences Prize Ceremony at
La Trobe University.
Cathy Naismith
For the first
time, the student-
delivered La Trobe
Intensive Fluency Program
will be available in the
Bendigo area for teenagers
who stutter.
Final-year Speech
Pathology students at
the La Trobe Rural Health
School, on the Bendigo
campus of La Trobe
University, will have the
opportunity to learn how
to treat adolescents who
stutter and they will provide
a valuable community
service to young people
who stutter and their
families.
It is common for
adolescents with speech
problems such as
stuttering to be referred
to clinics in Melbourne
because of a lack of
intensive or specialist
treatment options locally.
This initiative is an
attempt to meet the
needs of rural students,
to provide support
and professional
development for local
speech pathologists and
to provide specialist
clinical experiences for
the La Trobe rural students.
Staff from the La Trobe Rural
Health School, the Catholic
Education Office and
Department of Education
and Early Childhood
Development are delighted
to offer the opportunity
for children in Bendigo
and surrounding regions
to benefit from intensive
treatment for chronic
stuttering.
The program is a
collaboration between
the three departments,
as well as private clinicians
working in the area.
The program will be
conducted at the newly
built Health and Human
Sciences 2 building at
La Trobe University
Bendigo’s Edwards Street
campus. It will provide
La Trobe University’s first
cohort of final-year speech
pathology students valuable
work experience under the
supervision of experienced
expert and local clinical
supervisors.
The program is being
coordinated by Dr Susan
Block, from the Department
of Human Communication
Sciences at the Melbourne
campus of La Trobe
University, in association
with Ms Sheryn Long from
The Catholic Education
Office and Ms Madeline
Leyden from the Department
of Education and Early
Childhood Development
in Bendigo.
Victorian members’
achievements recognised
at the 2013 SPA
National Conference
La Trobe Intensive
Fluency Program
now offered rurally –
Bendigo region
Co-authors
Shane
Erickson
and Susan
Block won the
2012 JCPSLP
Editor's Prize.