22 Speak Out
August 2014
Speech Pathology Australia
2015 national conference news
Launch of Challenge,
Broaden, Revolutionise
C
hallenge,
B
roaden,
R
evolutionise
was officially launched in Melbourne.
Delegates enjoyed the trivia questions
about Canberra and won various prizes
generously donated by local Canberra
businesses. The 2015 Conference
Planning Committee (CPC) looks
forward to bringing you updates about
the National Conference in each issue
of
Speak Out
.
Major Sponsor
The 2015 CPC is pleased to announce
is the Major Sponsor for the 2015
National Conference in Canberra and
thanks them for their continued support.
Keynote & Invited Speakers
The 2015 CPC is also pleased to
announce and introduce to you the
Keynote Speakers and the Elizabeth
Usher Memorial Award recipient for
2015.
Professor Nickola W. Nelson
Nickola Wolf Nelson,
PhD, is Director of
the PhD program in
Interdisciplinary Health
Sciences and Professor
in the Department of
Speech Pathology and Audiology at
Western Michigan University. She
also is Editor of the journal,
Topics in
Language Disorders
. Professor Nelson
has published widely on language-
literacy, including
Language and
Literacy Disorders: Infancy through
Adolescence
(Allyn & Bacon, 2010) and
is conducting standardisation research
with support of a grant from the US
Department of Education on a Test of
Integrated Language and Literacy Skills
(TILLS). Professor Nelson is a Fellow
of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association (ASHA) and the
International Academy for Research in
Learning Disabilities, a Board Certified
Specialist in Child Language, recipient
of the Kleffner Clinical Career Award
from the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Foundation, and recipient of the
Honours of the ASHA.
Professor Emeritus
John (Jay) Rosenbek
John (Jay) Rosenbek
is Professor Emeritus
at the University of
Florida and Adjunct
Professor Michigan State University.
He is a Fellow of the American Speech
Language and Hearing Association
and has received the Honours of that
Association and of the Academy of
Neurologic Communication Disorders
and Sciences. He also has received
the Kwana Lifetime Achievement in
Publication Award from ASHA and
the Kleffner Career Clinic Award from
the ASHA Foundation. He recently
completed his 44th year of practice and
continues to provide clinical consultation
and continuing education in the US and
abroad. His research interests are in the
early identification of neurodegenerative
disease based on speech changes
measured acoustically and perceptually
and on skill training as neuroprotection.
Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture
The CPC 2015 put forward their
preferred recipient to the Board which
has been confirmed. Therefore I am
pleased to announce that Associate
Professor Pamela Snow has accepted
the invitation to present the Elizabeth
Usher Memorial Lecture and receive the
Award for 2015.
Pamela Snow
is an Associate Professor
in a conjoint appointment
between the Department
of Psychiatry and the
School of Rural Health at
Monash University (based
at the SRH Bendigo site
in central Victoria). She is the academic
convener for Medicine of the Mind
(Psychiatry) in Year 4 of the Monash
MBBS (Northern Victoria Medical
Education Network stream) and from
2006–2013, coordinated via distance
education the Graduate Diploma in
Mental Health for Teaching Professions.
Associate Professor Snow is a registered
psychologist, having qualified originally
in speech pathology. Her research has
been funded by nationally competitive
schemes such as the ARC Discovery
Program, ARC Linkage Program, and
the Criminology Research Council,
and spans various aspects of risk in
childhood and adolescence:
•
the oral language skills of high-risk
young people (youth offenders and
those in the state care system),
and the role of oral language
competence as an academic and
17–20 May 2015
National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia
