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Prof Togher spoke on her work in the field of communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the creation of TBI Express, a training program for people with TBI and those they communicate with. Prof Togher also presented recent findings from a clinical trial, including an overview of a new TBI assessment tool, which provides ratings of the conversational discourse of people with brain injury. In addressing this year’s SPWeek theme, Dr Starling spoke on the need for professionals to communicate and work together to support young people with language impairment. Dr Starling has a private practice in Sydney where the majority of her cases are school-aged children and adolescents with language-based learning difficulties. At the presentation, Dr Starling also presented the findings of her postgraduate study.

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about communication’ – this proved fascinating for both speech pathology students and those from other courses. • Cerebral Palsy Alliance speech pathologists Jesica Rennie and Dorothea Gray celebrated with colleagues by holding an AAC morning tea and posting communication conversation starters around the office with lunch table conversation starters a real hit! • ADHC Chatswood held a morning tea for colleagues with ‘how to

Seminar at the University of Sydney T he Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney celebrated Speech Pathology Week by hosting the presentation, “Advances in Speech Pathology: Conversations and Collaborations”. Presenters at this event included Professor Leanne Togher, a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health Sciences

and Dr Julia Starling, a speech pathologist based in Sydney.

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