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Social media update and classifieds

SPA Facebook highlights from October to November included...

• It’s International Stuttering Awareness Day! Dr Susan Block from @latrobe represented #SLPeeps today on @abcgippsland (21 Oct) • A new genetic pathway to speech and language? (31 Oct) • Study says poor social & communication skills (among others) can be predictors for bullying & victimisation (31 Oct) • The cap has been scrapped! @JoeHockey said Gov won't proceed with $2000 cap on self-edu expenses. Great news (5 Nov) • “The loneliness of language difficulties” (10 Nov) SPA Twitter update Interesting links tweeted and/or re-tweeted on our Twitter feed in October to November included:

Dr Tanya Serry and author Ursula Dubosarsky appeared on ABC Breakfast on the morning of the Book of the Year Awards in Melbourne (left). SPA would like to thank both Tanya and Ursula for doing such a great job of promoting awareness for children’s speech, language and literacy skills.

At the time we went to print, we have grown to a whopping 3,946 followers – thank you to all our social media fans for your support.

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The Advertiser newspaper published an article (above) featuring Flinders University students discussing a program to target speech and language difficulties in young primary school students.

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