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2015 national conference news

17–20 May 2015 National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia

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

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.

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 Nickola W. Nelson

Nickola Wolf Nelson, PhD, is Director of the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Professor in the Department of

Professor Emeritus John (Jay) Rosenbek John (Jay) Rosenbek is Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and Adjunct

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

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

those in the state care system), and the role of oral language competence as an academic and

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