Speak Out June 2018

2-5 June 2019 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

THE 2019 CONFERENCE IS A JOINT EVENT FOR SPEECH PATHOLOGY AUSTRALIA (SPA) AND THE NEW ZEALAND SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPISTS’ ASSOCIATION (NZSTA).

Introducing the 2019 Conference Planning Committee Co-convenor Dr Alison Smith

Co-scientific program chair Laurelie Wall Laurelie (BSpPath(Hons), PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Functioning & Health Research, Metro South Health. She also holds academic affiliations with The University of Queensland and the Translational Research Institute. Her clinical and research interests include head and neck cancer, technology/telehealth, and critical care. Dr Rebecca Armstrong Rebecca has a passionate interest in the area of school-age children, and splits her week working part-time as a lecturer at The University of Queensland and part-time as a speech-language pathologist for the Department of Education. Anne Huang Anne is a PhD Candidate at Griffith University and a certified practising speech pathologist. Her PhD topic explores how speech pathologists and interpreters work together to manage culturally and linguistically diverse adults with acquired communication disorders. Anne also currently works in private practice in Cairns. Renee Taylor Kia ora, Renee works as a community speech-language therapist with adults at Counties Manukau DHB. She also holds the Maaori and Cultural Development Portfolio on the Executive Committee for the NZSTA.

Alison (BSpPath, GDipEd – Infants and Primary) is a speech pathologist and strategic leader who has worked for over 30 years in state schools in Queensland across metropolitan, regional, rural and remote settings. She currently works in a management position in the Metropolitan Region of the Department of Education.

This includes responsibility for strategic planning for and the delivery of specialist services (including speech-language therapy) to across over 250 state schools with an enrolment of over 140,000 students in south-east Queensland. Her passions are the delivery of specialist services in whole school approaches focused on improving the educational outcomes for ALL students. Co-convenor Dr Felicity Bright Felicity is a Senior Lecturer in Rehabilitation at Auckland University of Technology. She teaches on postgraduate rehabilitation papers and contributes to the undergraduate physiotherapy program. Her research focuses on relational aspects of practice and rehabilitation services for people experiencing communication disability. Co-scientific program chair Dr Clare McCann

Clare is the head of Speech Science at The University of Auckland, responsible for the Masters of Speech Language Therapy Practice. Her research and clinical work focuses on acquired language disorders in adults and, she also works as a communication assistant for people going through legal justice processes.

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