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Speak Out
February 2013
Speech Pathology Australia
• Dr Cori Williams announced as National
Advisor – Evidence Based Practice
(1)
• Dr Jemma Skeat announced as National
Advisor – Research and Policy
(2)
• Fellowships awarded to Dr Jacinta
Douglas, Dr Cori Williams and
Professor Pam Snow and Recognition of
Service Award to Tennille Burns
(3)
• Successful transition of
ACQuiring
Knowledge in Speech, Language
and Hearing (ACQ)
to the
Journal of
Clinical Practice in Speech-Language
Pathology (JCPSLP)
(4)
• Almost 60 CPD events, including
the sold out National Tour by
Dr Roslyn Neilson
(5)
• Communicate: Our Natural State
National Conference in Hobart,
attended by 500 delegates and
featuring eminent speakers such as
Prof Bruce Murdoch, Dr Angela Morgan
and Dr Mabel Rice
(6)
• A year of lobbying and representation
including meetings with the Parliamentary
Secretary for Disabilities and carers
regarding the addition of children with SLI
to the
Better Start for Children Disability
initiative; the Queensland Minister
for Health regarding the Queensland
Registration Board; the Victorian Liberal
Party Congress regarding the NDIS
(7)
;
and the opportunity to present the case
for a National Inquiry into the social and
economic impact of communication and
swallowing impairment to the Senate
Community Affairs References Committee
(8)
• Speech Pathology Week 2013 ‘Tell your
story’ with over 500 stories received
(9-11)
, resulting in
The Great Australian
Communication Story e-Book
(12)
Acollectiono
communicati
Journal of Clinical Practice in
Speech-Language Pathology
Volume
13
, Number
1
2011
Professional
issues
PrintPostApprovedPP352524/00383 ISSN 2200-0259
In this issue:
Diversity challenge for
universities
Interprofessional clinical
placement
FEES: Models of service
delivery
Translating EBP into clinical
practice
Speech Pathology Australia’s
Top 10 resources
Journal of Clinical ractic i
Spe ch-L
l
Volume
14
, Number
1
2012
JournaL of CLInICaL PraCtICe In SPeeCh-Language PathoLogy
Volume
14
,Number
1
2012
SPA looks back on the
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