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STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF
SYDNEY and Macquarie University joined
Mary Woodward and Kirsten McCosker at
the Concord Centre for Mental Health in
Sydney. Their SPWeek stand was stocked
with information, games, and cookies to
raise awareness of communication difficulties
and the role of speech pathology in a mental
health setting. Everyone had great fun–even
the police officers who they managed to get
to participate.
The students set up four challenges for
participants.
1. Key Word Sign It: Students had to request
a baked good using key word sign.
2. Decode IPA: Students had to decode
sentences that had been transcribed into IPA.
3. Decode Paraphasia: Students had to
decode sentences that had 3–4 semantic or
phonemic paraphasias.
4. Guess the Thickness: Students were
required to swallow a sample of thickened
fluid and guess whether it was mildly,
moderately or extremely thick.
Fun and games with a message
Speech Pathology week 2017
THE WA BRANCH hosted a networking
event to see in Speech Pathology Week
for 2017. 71 speech pathologists attended
the evening, where they caught up with
new and old friends and co-workers,
and were treated to four speakers who
shared their experiences in communication
access. Three of the speakers were
speech pathologists, and the fourth had
an education background. All shared
some interesting “food for thought” and
attendees left feeling inspired to spread the
message about SP week!
WA networking
event
Speech pathologists in the ACT celebrated
Speech Pathology Week by launching the
first ever ACT Journal Club. Thank you to
Andrew Watt and Leah Hanley for organising,
and to Jenna Golab for hosting. Canberra
based speechies interested in attending
future events are encouraged to email
Andrew Watt ).
Journal club
launched – ACT