Speak Out
October 2014
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BRANCH news
tasmania
Speech pathologists
from Tasmanian Health
Organisation – South
celebrated Speech Pathology
Week 2014 with great gusto.
Displays were organised at
Clarence Integrated Care
Centre and the Community
Rehabilitation Unit, and in
keeping with the theme of
Nation for Communication
,
we communicated loudly and
joyously with each other over
a special lunch (pictured).
In a perhaps unprecedented
re-interpretation of the theme,
we limited ourselves to food
items beginning with ‘N’ or ‘C’.
Luckily, this enabled us to
consume chocolate!
Gudrun Barratt-Peacock
Speech Pathologist, Tasmanian
Health Organisation-South
Tassie SPs get into the spirit of SPWeek 2014!
S p e e c h P a t h o l o g y
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