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Speech Pathology 2030 - making futures happen
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COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
“The solution to stuttering will come
from the melding and free exchange
of ideas between speech pathology,
psychology and people who stutter.”
“Everyone worked as a team, starting
my daughter’s transition to primary
school 6 months beforehand.
The autism therapist, the speech
pathologist, parents and the school all
linked together and worked proactively
to anticipate her needs. It went so well,
beyond my expectations. Working
together proactively was a major benefit
to a wonderful outcome.”
“Our school has a dedicated speech
pathologist who has introduced a
program that teaches vocab within each
learning unit all through the school every
day. It’s wonderful.”
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e will respond to the call from clients and
communities to collaborate and partner with
a wide range of professionals to deliver highly
coordinated and integrated services. We
recognise how important this is for all clients, but especially
those who have complex needs and access services from
different disciplines and multiple agencies. This is equally
important for facilitating smooth transitions for clients at
different life stages and between service providers. We will
build our skills and systems in order to deliver well-coordinated
multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary services
to improve the experience of our clients and the outcomes they
achieve.
We will realise the full benefits of cross-pollination and
exchange of knowledge, skills and ideas between professions
through collaborative, inter-professional research, practice,
and education. For the benefit of our clients, we will be open
to more flexible and negotiable role boundaries and work
to maximise and extend our own scope of practice while
supporting our professional colleagues to do the same. As
part of this process we will acquire new skills and perform new
tasks while delegating or devolving other tasks that can be
undertaken more practically and efficiently by others.
We will develop our roles to work alongside our professional
colleagues in real-time in all service contexts and with all
populations. It is through these partnerships we believe we can
deliver more than the sum of our individual contributions.
Looking to emerging fields of practice, we are ready to create
opportunities to contribute to and learn from diverse fields of
practice, including socially assistive robotics; genomics and
epigenetics; population health and community development;
health economics; criminology; neuropsychology; medicine;
and teaching across all age groups. We will invest in
establishing mutually beneficial partnerships to benefit our
clients through an expanded knowledge base and access to a
wider range of tools.
As a profession we will bring strong leadership and evidence-
based advocacy to our partnerships with all levels of
government and relevant funding bodies. We will be recognised
for our valuable contributions to developing, implementing and
reviewing health and social policy and programs.
In our clients’ words:
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