20 Speak Out
October 2014
Speech Pathology Australia
BRANCH news
new south wales
Multisensory Instruction in
Language Arts 1
Teacher Training Course
Gain the skills to teach writing, spelling
and reading to primary school students.
Contact
Robyn Grace
03 9889 4768
January and July
Sydney and Melbourne
Additional courses organised by demand
Speech Pathology Week at Macquarie University
Macquarie University
Master
of Speech and Language Pathology
students were busy across campus
during the week of 25–29 August raising
awareness about the ICP
and
marking Speech Pathology Week 2014.
To encourage people to think about
what living with a communication
disability is like, students asked the
Macquarie University community:
•
Who do you most frequently
communicate with?
•
What are your three most favourite
ways to communicate?
•
How would you feel if you couldn't
communicate?
•
Who would you most miss
communicating with?
Students interviewed older people,
younger people, fellow students,
parents, baristas, and even toddlers.
Speaking with friends and family
was the top of the list for frequent
communication partners, with most
people responding that they would
feel very lonely and isolated if they
couldn’t communicate. Despite the
pervasiveness of social media,
face-to-face conversation was
the respondents’ favourite way to
communicate, followed by the phone,
and Facebook.
On being asked how they’d feel if they
couldn’t communicate, two notable
student replies were “I’d be very stroppy
with myself”, and “I’d go crazy; humans
are social animals”. The overriding
message of ICP2014 and these interview
responses is that we all have the right to
communicate, in all different forms.
For updates on the ICP2014, please
use the hashtags
and
.
Laura Blasdale
&
Danielle Pascoe
MSLP students
Belinda Hill
Manager of Speech Pathology
Clinical Education
Australian SP awarded
Van Lawrence Prize
The 2014 recipient
of the
prestigious Van Lawrence
Prize was Speech Pathology
Australia fellow, Cecilia
Pemberton from Voice Care
Australia, for her paper
‘Efficiently and Cost Effectively
Managing Teachers’ Voice
Problems’.
The Van Lawrence Prize is
named after the outstanding
American Otolaryngologist to honour his significant contribution
to the voice world. It is offered biannually by the British Voice
Association (BVA) and recognises the recipient’s contribution
to the field of voice. Cecilia received the award at the BVA AGM
study day in London, from Otolaryngologist and BVA council
member Mr Tom Harris (pictured above with Cecilia).
Cecilia’s paper formed the basis of her submission to the
National Senate Inquiry into communication disorders and
speech pathology services. Her abstract can be viewed at
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Jesica Rennie
&
Eryka Arteaga
NSW Branch Speak Out and e-News Leaders
Some of
the people
interviewed
by Macquarie
University
students during
SPWeek 2014.
