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2014 National Conference News 18 – 21 May 2014 Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Conference, we will include a question and 100 lucky members who answer it correctly will go into the

draw to win this prize. The four names will be drawn on the Sunday evening at Pre-registration in the exhibition area. Good luck! Sponsorship & Exhibition The Sponsorship & Exhibition Invitation is now available and members are asked to advise the National Conference Manager of details of organisations they consider would benefit themselves and members from participating. Please visit the 2014 National Conference webpage for full details. The CPC is pleased to announce the following companies have already taken stands at the Conference: Flavour Creations, Multimedia Speech Pathology, Nestlé Health Science, Olympus, Pearson Clinical Assessment, Pelican Talk & Love and Reilly, Pro-Ed Australia, Safe Swallowing, Trisco Foods – T/A Precise Thick-N, Teleflex Medical Australia, Wise Words Australia and Zyteq. Precise Thick-N is sponsoring the Conference Lanyards and Olympus is sponsoring the online Program and Registration Brochure.

connections: client.clinician.context T he 2014 Conference Planning Committee (CPC) is pleased to announce their second keynote speaker:

Dr Susan Langmore, Ph.D, CCC-SLP, BRS-S Susan is Professor of Otolaryngology at Boston University Medical Center and Speech Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University, where she teaches dysphagia, motor speech disorders, and mentors masters and doctoral students. She is

Director of Speech Language Pathology Services at Boston Medical Center where she also maintains an active clinic caseload. Dr Langmore is most widely known for developing the FEES procedure to evaluate dysphagia. She lectures throughout the US and internationally. Susan has maintained an active research program for several years. She is a fellow of ASHA and was given the Honours of the Association in 2012. To view Dr Langmore’s abstracts for her presentations, please visit the Conference webpage. Call for Papers The closing date has passed and the reviewers are busy grading each abstract. The CPC would like to thank everyone who submitted an abstract and every effort will be made to include as many as possible into the Conference program.

Accommodation SPA has appointed PR Conference Consultants to manage the accommodation requirements for the 2014 Conference delegates. Details regarding the accommodation options are available from the Conference webpage. Due to the various airlines, discounted fares and private company arrangements, Speech Pathology Australia has decided to allow Conference delegates to make their own travel arrangements and pre/post Conference tours. Diane Jacobs 2014 Conference Convenor

Welcome Reception: Eureka 89 Skydeck The 2014 National

Conference Welcome Reception on Sunday night will be held at Eureka 89. One of the features of the evening will be the opportunity for four lucky delegates to go out onto the ‘Observation Deck’, an experience not for the fainthearted. In each issue of Event e-News leading up to the

Pamela Richards National Conference Manager

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