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From the Editors
Contents
From the Editors ........................................................................ 37
From the President .................................................................... 38
Think Big, Act Locally: Responding to ethical dilemmas –
Robyn Cross, Suze Leitão and Lindy McAllister ......................... 39
The Predictive Validity of the Quick Test of
Language – Beth McIntosh . ....................................................... 42
Pioneering in Professional Practice – Lindy McAllister ......... 44
Weekend Speech Pathology Services –
Wendy M. Archer and Anne E. Vertigan .................................... 51
Using Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure
for PROMPT Therapy – Natalie Marx ..................................... 56
Outside the Square: The voice as a behavioural probe of
emotional/neurophysiological disorders – Adam Vogel ...... 60
Outside/Inside the Square: Balancing work and
family while doing a PhD, or, the two-dimensional
woman – Libby Smith ................................................................. 61
Speech Pathology in the Asia-Pacific Region: Speech-
language pathology in Malaysia – Shobha Sharma ................ 62
Students Write: Juggling family, study and life! –
Jessie Smith ................................................................................... 65
Students Write: Finding your feet: A perspective on
placements in education as a student clinician –
Sarah Gordon . .............................................................................. 66
Webwords 30: Work–life balance and authentic
interests – Caroline Bowen .......................................................... 67
Clinical Insights – Erica Dixon .................................................. 69
Top 10 Aphasia Resources and References –
Samantha Siyambalapitiya and the third-year speech
pathology students, James Cook University, Queensland ........... 70
Book Reviews ............................................................................. 72
Reflecting Connections: Antipodean knowledge sharing –
Alison Russell and Trish Bradd .................................................... 74
Are you sitting comfortably? Are you keen to read this or
is it a chore or is it an example of procrastination (the
answer for that dreadful quality project just might be hiding
in this issue)? Is there anything else you feel you ought to be
doing? Is the dinner ready?
Finding balance in our lives is not based on a formula as
some helpful websites suggest (take the right amount of
exercise, don’t take work home, spend time with friends and
you’ll be right, mate). A sense of balance is an individual
experience and how we achieve it will probably change
throughout our lives.
There is a range of articles in this issue each of which may
help you to experience balance in your life. For example,
understanding the sources of distress and tension at work
may relate to the ethical concerns you have about distribution
of services and resources. The article by members of the
Association’s Ethics Board encourages readers to recognise
the impact of ethical concerns and addressing them. Clinical
tools such as the Quick Test of Language and Goal Attainment
Scaling are evaluated; using effective clinical procedures can
help us be confident in the work we are doing and increase
the positive experiences and effectiveness we can have at
work. Lindy McAllister describes the pioneering approach
she has taken in her career in a paper originally presented for
the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture at the Association
Conference in 2006. The personal attributes she describes in
herself such as her passion for development, her quest for
challenge and novelty and her positive approach to risk
taking all assist her to obtain satisfaction from life. We have
three different views from people in a student role discussing
the challenges and solutions they have found balancing study
and “life”.
We are thrilled to present an insight into speech pathology
in Malaysia and look forward to learning more about speech
pathology in our part of the world in the feature “Speech
Pathology in the Asia-Pacific Region”.
Also, hot off the press, we have a report and photographs
from the extremely successful Speech Pathology Australia
and NZSTA Conference: Reflecting Connections which was
held in Auckland in May.
There are a number of other items of interest in this issue
and we hope that you will take some time to reflect on how
any or all of these ideas may help you to gain, retain or
restore some work-life balance.
Louise Brown and Chyrisse Heine
Co-editors