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Speak Out
August 2013
Speech Pathology Australia
Fellowship of Speech Pathology Australia
Fellowship is a public professional honour awarded to a person
with considerable experience, responsibility and standing within
the speech pathology profession. Council was pleased to
recognise two outstanding recipients for this award.
Sue Horton
Sue Horton has
been actively engaged
with the Association
since becoming a speech
pathologist in 1979. She has
demonstrated leadership
in many roles at a National
and Branch level, including
Branch President for six
years, Councillor for five
years and numerous Branch
Executive roles. Sue has
been a leader in contributing
to Association activities, a positive innovator encouraging the
same in others and has excelled in all activities in which she
has engaged.
The expertise Sue has developed through her research,
teaching and clinical practice is well recognised. Sue has
been an important member of speech pathology programs
at Flinders University and the University of Queensland,
excelling in her teaching of motor speech disorders,
professional practice topics and paediatric speech and
language.
Sue’s ongoing commitment to the professional education of
students has demonstrated innovation and leadership. Sue
was one of the first clinical educators to trial peer placement
models, successfully changing the traditional ratios of clinical
educator to student from 1:1 to 1:6 and enabling students
to learn together in a model of genuine peer learning and
mentoring. Since 2003 Sue integrated this model of clinical
education in a school setting, where she successfully worked
with six students per placement to provide services to an
entire school community, significantly increasing the capacity
to provide much needed speech pathology services to an
otherwise underserviced population of students.
Sue is well known for her leadership and expertise within
the field of education. Sue is client and evidence focused,
highly regarded by the families and school communities she
works with and generous with her time and support for other
speech pathologists.
Sue brings a sustained energy and vitality to the profession
through her sense of humour, down-to-earth approach
and willingness to act for the benefit of the profession. Sue
has earned broad respect as evidenced by the number of
colleagues who seek her advice and support. It was with
great pleasure that we awarded Sue with Fellowship.
Dr Amanda Scott
Dr Amanda Scott is a speech pathologist with more than 30
years’ experience, making a long and sustained contribution
to the profession. Amanda is a highly regarded clinician,
researcher and educator who has actively and generously
shared her expertise with many speech pathologists.
Amanda has considerable expertise in the areas of
neuroscience and dysphagia
management, working in
several tertiary hospitals
in Melbourne. Amanda
established the Speech
Pathology Department
at Calvary Health Care
Bethlehem, where she
was one of the first speech
pathologists to be involved
with clients with progressive
neurological conditions and
palliative care. Amanda
has produced a number of
groundbreaking publications and resources and has paved
the way for new models of care and service delivery with
these challenging client populations.
Amanda has focused much of her work over the years on
building and contributing to the growing bodies of evidence
and formalised research within the profession. Amanda has
achieved numerous publications including journal articles,
book chapters and textbooks. She has provided support and
advice, encouraging and assisting many of her colleagues in
the application of research and small project grants, travelling
scholarships and academic publications.
Amanda was one of the earliest speech pathologists in
Melbourne to embrace the use of VFSS as an objective
measure for evaluating swallow disorders in neurological clients.
She was instrumental in the establishment of a VFSS and
Outpatient Dysphagia clinic at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem.
In 2000, Amanda was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy
for her research on the development of a scale to assess
swallowing functioning in MND using videofluoroscopy. This
work is regarded as seminal piece of research, with the scale
being widely used by speech pathologists in a variety of
sectors. As a result of this work, Amanda has been invited
numerous times to teach and train at an international level
on the subject of formalised evaluation of videofluoroscopy.
Locally Amanda is a regular and sought after presenter at
SIGS, workshops and conferences, highly regarded for her
clear and practical presentation style and her unique ability to
bridge the gap between research and clinical practice.
Dr Amanda Scott is a greatly admired speech pathologist
who has made an outstanding and lasting contribution to
the profession. We congratulate Dr Amanda Scott on her
Fellowship.
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