ACQ Vol 10 No 2 2008

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From the Editors ........................................................................ 37

Speech Pathology in the Asia-Pacific Region: Speech- language pathology in Malaysia – Shobha Sharma ................ 62 Students Write: Juggling family, study and life! – Jessie Smith ................................................................................... 65 Students Write: Finding your feet: A perspective on placements in education as a student clinician – Sarah Gordon . .............................................................................. 66 Webwords 30: Work–life balance and authentic interests – Caroline Bowen .......................................................... 67

From the President .................................................................... 38

Think Big, Act Locally: Responding to ethical dilemmas – Robyn Cross, Suze Leitão and Lindy McAllister ......................... 39 The Predictive Validity of the Quick Test of Language – Beth McIntosh . ....................................................... 42

Pioneering in Professional Practice – Lindy McAllister ......... 44

F rom the E ditors A re you sitting comfortably? Are you keen to read this or is it a chore or is it an example of procrastination (the answer for that dreadful quality project just might be hiding in this issue)? Is there anything else you feel you ought to be doing? Is the dinner ready? Finding balance in our lives is not based on a formula as some helpful websites suggest (take the right amount of exercise, don’t take work home, spend time with friends and you’ll be right, mate). A sense of balance is an individual experience and how we achieve it will probably change throughout our lives. There is a range of articles in this issue each of which may help you to experience balance in your life. For example, understanding the sources of distress and tension at work may relate to the ethical concerns you have about distribution of services and resources. The article by members of the Association’s Ethics Board encourages readers to recognise the impact of ethical concerns and addressing them. Clinical tools such as the Quick Test of Language and Goal Attainment Scaling are evaluated; using effective clinical procedures can help us be confident in the work we are doing and increase the positive experiences and effectiveness we can have at work. Lindy McAllister describes the pioneering approach she has taken in her career in a paper originally presented for Weekend Speech Pathology Services – Wendy M. Archer and Anne E. Vertigan .................................... 51 Using Goal Attainment Scaling as an Outcome Measure for PROMPT Therapy – Natalie Marx ..................................... 56 Outside the Square: The voice as a behavioural probe of emotional/neurophysiological disorders – Adam Vogel ...... 60 Outside/Inside the Square: Balancing work and family while doing a PhD, or, the two-dimensional woman – Libby Smith ................................................................. 61

Clinical Insights – Erica Dixon .................................................. 69

Top 10 Aphasia Resources and References – Samantha Siyambalapitiya and the third-year speech pathology students, James Cook University, Queensland ........... 70

Book Reviews ............................................................................. 72

Reflecting Connections: Antipodean knowledge sharing – Alison Russell and Trish Bradd .................................................... 74

the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture at the Association Conference in 2006. The personal attributes she describes in herself such as her passion for development, her quest for challenge and novelty and her positive approach to risk taking all assist her to obtain satisfaction from life. We have three different views from people in a student role discussing the challenges and solutions they have found balancing study and “life”. We are thrilled to present an insight into speech pathology in Malaysia and look forward to learning more about speech pathology in our part of the world in the feature “Speech Pathology in the Asia-Pacific Region”. Also, hot off the press, we have a report and photographs from the extremely successful Speech Pathology Australia and NZSTA Conference: Reflecting Connections which was held in Auckland in May. There are a number of other items of interest in this issue and we hope that you will take some time to reflect on how any or all of these ideas may help you to gain, retain or restore some work-life balance.

Louise Brown and Chyrisse Heine Co-editors

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ACQ uiring knowledge in speech , language and hearing , Volume 10, Number 2 2008