Speak Out April 2019

Joint Conference

2 – 5 June 2019: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland

Register for the 2019 Joint Conference Early bird registration closes Wednesday 17 April 2019. We are now counting down the weeks until the conference with the conference program and online registration available from the website. The Conference Planning Committee (CPC) is encouraged by the number of registrations received to date. If you have not registered as yet, we hope you are planning to attend. Registration is easy! We suggest that you read through the conference program, decide which sessions you wish to attend, and then proceed to the online registration to make your session selections. This will ensure a faster registration process and less chance of being logged out. Some workshops have limited attendance so avoid disappointment and register today! There will be NO waitlist for any sessions. The program has diversity across clinical areas in the concurrent sessions so no matter which day or time you’re looking at there is bound to be something of interest to you. All sessions have a unique code that tells you the day and time it’s happening: • M = Monday; T = Tuesday; W = Wednesday • The number 1, 2 or 3 indicates the time slot. 1 = the morning session; 2 = after lunch and 3 = following afternoon tea • A-F indicates one of the 6 concurrent sessions Monday and then A-E on Tuesday and Wednesday • TB is the Tuesday Breakfast session for student and early career members. • All keynote presentations each morning and he Grace Gane Memorial Lecture after lunch Tuesday are automatically included within your registration selection on those days. These are MKP, TEU, TGG and WKP. While the opening on Monday and closing on Wednesday are automatically included as applicable to your registration, we do ask you to advise if you will or will not attend. You will also notice that some codes indicate continued sessions. These sessions are for three hours and presented in two parts of 1.5 hours each so you must select both sessions when registering. Any changes to the program will be made immediately to the online registration, so it is suggested you visit the website from time to time. You will be contacted directly if any major change affects your registration. However, if you wish to make a change to your registration please contact Colleen Moloney at Speech Pathology Australia and the New Zealand Speech- Language Therapists’ Association value the perspectives of their Indigenous peoples, and are committed to the promotion of culturally responsive approaches to research. For the 2019 conference, those making submissions which involved Indigenous conf2019@speechpathologyaustralia.org.au Valuing Indigenous perspectives

peoples were required to identify presenters and authors who are of Indigenous heritage, and these submissions were prioritised for inclusion. Consumer panel discussion Geneva Hakaraia-Tino, NZSTA’s Giving Voice ambassador and an AAC user will facilitate a consumer panel which will challenge us to critically reflect on how we are really doing at engaging, connecting with, and empowering our clients and their family/ whanau. The panel will provide time to critica reflect on your own practices and to work with panel members to consider how you can make changes in your practice. Oral, forum, workshop, PeP talk and poster presenters The CPC would like to thank those who will be presenting and remind you that registration for the conference is required. Presenters at our 2019 Joint Conference are also reminded to complete and return by Thursday 23 May, 2019 the Speaker’s AV Checklist included within the confirmation letter sent in December. Event Technology is again managing the audio visual equipment for our conference so please ensure you return the completed form to them and not SPA. Student oral presentation prize One prize worth $100 will be awarded to the best student oral presentation. The judges will rate the presentation delivery style, verbal and nonverbal presentation skills and the overall clarity of the presentation content. To be eligible, you must be a student (undergraduate or postgraduate) and a member of SPA or NZSTA. If you did not indicate when you submitted your abstract and now wish for your presentation to be considered for this prize, please email your interest to conf2019@ speechpathologyaustralia.org.au before Friday April 12, 2019 . Best oral presentation prize During the program meeting in November, the CPC was impressed at the high score reviewers gave to some submissions and in recognition has decided to award one prize worth $50 to the best oral presentation. The judges will rate the presentation delivery style, verbal and nonverbal presentation skills and the overall clarity of the presentation content. Poster prizes At the 2019 Joint Conference, prizes will be offered to the best poster presentations. Two poster prizes, each worth $50, are available. All poster presentations are eligible for the prizes. There will be one prize determined by two anonymous judges and for this prize, posters will be rated on overall design and clarity of the poster content. The second prize will be a category called the People’s Choice Poster Prize. Conference delegates will be able to vote for the poster that most inspired them on the conference app. This prize will be awarded to the poster with the highest number of votes. Winners will be announced during the close of the 2019 Joint Conference.

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