Speak Out
August 2014
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ronelle hutchinson
Manager, Policy and Advocacy
Lauren is our daughter. He wanted to be able to read
a story to her, because she was 3 ½ when he had a stroke.
He could not read to her anymore and that affected their
relationship, because she did not know why daddy would
not read to her – rather than that he could not. For the
LIFT program, you have to write some goals listing what
you want out of the program … One of Bruce’s was to quite
simply be able to read a story to his daughter. Now he can.
– Natasha Aisthorpe speaking about her husband Bruce
(Brisbane).
Obviously, we have heard that early
intervention message loud and
clear
– Senator Rachel Siewert
(Brisbane)
Language is both a developmental
destination towards the
adult language system and a
developmental means for other
achievements such as social and
emotional abilities, literacy, school
achievement, employment and all of
life’s opportunities beyond school
– Prof. Cate Taylor, Telethon Kids
Institute (Sydney)
Canberra, 20 June
•
Australian Government Department
of Health
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Health Workforce Australia
•
Associate Professor Cori Williams,
Curtin University
•
Services for Australian Rural
and Remote Allied Health
Brisbane 27 June
•
Associate Professor Michael McDowell,
Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural
Paediatric Society of Australasia
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Autism Queensland
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Deadly Ears Program
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Hear and Say
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Association of Childhood Language
and Related Disorders
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Lift Program, University of Sydney
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Australian Aphasia Association
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Apunipima Cape York Health Council
Senators also visited the Glenleighden School.
One issue that affects all Aboriginal people is
access to speech pathology services and, in particular,
to appropriate services. Many of these services are
not accessible to or accessed by Aboriginal people. There
are many things that might be causing this – a lack of
culturally appropriate or secure practices, inflexible service
delivery models, especially medical models, limited
numbers of Aboriginal staff, and limited cultural awareness
or cultural security within the services.
–
Associate Prof. Cori Williams, Curtin University
(Canberra)
