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Speak Out
October 2015
Speech Pathology Australia
2016 national conference
Keynote & Invited Speakers
The 2016 CPC is pleased to announce
Emeritus Professor Pamela Enderby
and Dr Susan Ebbels have accepted
the invitation to be our keynote speakers
in Perth.
Pamela (Pam)
Enderby
is
Emeritus Professor
of Community
Rehabilitation at the
University of Sheffield,
UK. She qualified as a
speech and language therapist in 1970
and from an early stage in her career
combined research with clinical practice.
She worked in the NHS in London and
Bristol where she was District Therapist
and set up the first Communication
Aids Centre in the UK and the Speech
and Language Research Unit. In 1995
she moved to Sheffield to a combined
NHS and university research post. At
the university she has held the positions
of Head of Department and Dean of
the Faculty of Medicine. More recently,
she has completed three years as the
Clinical Director of the South Yorkshire
Comprehensive Local Research
Network, and one year as Chair of
Sheffield Healthwatch, on whose board
she still serves. She is also a trustee
of the Royal College of Speech and
Language Therapists.
Pam was the lead in the Equal Pay
case which, after 14 years, was found
in favour of speech and language
therapists in the European Court of
Human Justice.
She was awarded a Fellowship of the
College of Speech Therapists and was
honoured with an MBE for services to
speech and language therapy. A DSc
was awarded by the University of the
West of England in 2000. In 2012 she
was awarded the Robin Tavistock for her
contribution to aphasia.
Pam has been the lead supervisor for
26 successful doctoral students, the
principal investigator on in excess of
50 research projects spanning three
decades totalling in excess of £7.5
million, been the principal author of 14
books and published more than a 150
peer-reviewed journal articles.
Dr Susan Ebbels
is a speech and
language therapist
and the Research
& Development
Coordinator at Moor
House School and
College, Surrey, UK, a special school for
children with developmental language
impairments (DLI) aged 7–19. She has
an honorary position at the University
College London, is an associate editor
of the
International Journal of Language
and Communication Disorders
and on
the editorial board of
Child Language
Teaching and Therapy
. She is also
a specialist advisor on school-aged
children with language impairments
for the Royal College of Speech and
Language Therapists. Susan gained
her PhD from UCL in 2005; this was
completed part-time while continuing
clinical work three days a week. She is
passionate about the need for evidence
based practice in speech and language
therapy and has carried out and
coordinated many intervention studies
in the school on a range of areas, but
with a particular focus on improving
the comprehension and production
of grammar in children with DLI using
her “Shape Coding” method. Susan
lectures and runs courses for SLTs on
appraising the evidence, carrying out
research in clinical practice, the current
evidence base for school-aged children
with language impairments and practical
courses on “Shape Coding”.
15–18 May 2016
Crown Perth, Western Australia