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National conference
INSP IRE: INSpiring Practice Innovation, Research and
Engagement was officially launched in Sydney. Congratulations to
the delegates who won various donated prizes and Anne Pearson
from Queensland who was sitting in the “lucky seat” and won the
complimentary registration to SPA2018.
The 2018 Conference Planning Committee (CPC) looks forward
to bringing you updates about the National Conference in each
issue of Speak Out and also through the monthly issue of National
Conference eNews.
Keynote and invited speakers
The CPC is pleased to introduce to you the first of our two
keynote speakers. Information about the presentations by the
keynote speakers will be available in the coming months.
Ron Gillam, PhD holds the Raymond
and Eloise Lillywhite Endowed Chair
in Speech-Language Pathology at
Utah State University, where he is also
the co-director of the Interdisciplinary
Doctoral Program in Neuroscience.
His research, which has been funded
by the National Institutes of Health
and the US Department of Education,
primarily concerns information
processing, language assessment,
and language intervention with school-
age children with language disorders.
Dr Gillam has published three books, three norm-referenced tests,
and more than 130 articles and book chapters. He has been an
associate editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,
and Topics in Language Disorders. Dr Gillam has received
numerous teaching and research awards including honours of the
American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA),
Distinguished Alumnus at Indiana University, ASHA Fellow, the
Haydn Williams Fellow at Curtin University in Western Australia,
the Dads Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship at the
University of Texas at Austin, the Editor’s Award for the article of
highest merit in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research (twice) and the Robins Award for the outstanding
researcher at Utah State University.
Call for papers
Information about the conference and the call for papers is
available at Go to the
professional development link and then National Conference
2018. We would encourage you to “spread the news” through
your many networks, colleagues and friends, wherever they are
in the world. Send them the link to the Association’s website
where they can read more about the National Conference and
submission process.
We have also included on the Conference website instructions
for making submissions which we hope will provide guidance
and assistance before you proceed to the actual submission
process and a checklist to ensure that you are prepared to
finalise the submission. Please remember that delegates will only
have access to the title of the paper and author(s) names when
they register and select sessions they wish to attend, so please
carefully think about your presentation title. This will help ensure
the audience you wish to attract and have the greatest interest in
your topic will attend.
While the closing date for submissions is Wednesday, 13
September 2017, there is no need to wait until the due date to
submit your proposal. This will assist the Scientific Program Chair
(SPC) in managing the review process and help us develop the
Conference program in a timely manner.
Call for reviewers
The Scientific Program Chair (SPC) is becoming increasingly busy
as papers, posters and workshops are now being submitted.
These submissions need to be reviewed, and the SPC is
encouraged by the response so far. If additional reviewers are
required an announcement will be made within the August issue
of National Conference eNews.
Feedback
The CPC is reading and discussing the feedback provided
through this year’s conference survey to assist with planning
for 2018. Where possible we will incorporate the suggestions/
recommendations. We would like to congratulate Helen Smith
from South Australia who won the complimentary 2018 National
Conference Registration.
Barbara Lyndon
2018 Conference Convenor
Pamela Richards
National Conference Manager
27–30 May, 2018 Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia
LAUNCH OF INSPIRE