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Cartooning workshop for Tassie
On Saturday 16
July a cartooning workshop
was held in Campbell Town, presented by cartoonist
extraordinaire, Bradfield Dumpleton. Bradfield delivered
a comprehensive workshop, including the drawing of
faces, facial expressions and body language, and drawing
comic strips demonstrating scenarios and interactions
between characters. There was also lots of discussion
and experimentation going on as our “speechie brains”
were exploding with applications of these ideas. These
ideas were being related to all areas of speech pathology
across the lifespan. We even had the opportunity for
some requests as a bit of fun to finish the day as Bradfield
demonstrated how to draw some farm animals for us –
which is an essential skill, particularly when working in the
area of paediatric speech pathology!
A show of hands initially revealed that most of us believed
that we could not draw. After a few hours of working with
Bradfield, we were proved wrong! It was incredible to
see how even simple stick figures can convey so much
meaning and how these skills can be applied not just to
our work but to life in general.
It was great to see so many Tassie speec
hies from allover the state meeting together and enjoy
ing this amazingworkshop! Many thanks to Bradfield for fa
cilitating thisgreat event. It was such a fun way to have a “visual”
conversation, and yet another way that speech pathology
can fit into your life!
Rachael Zeeman
Tas Branch Publications Executive
December 2016
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