Speak Out August 2013

Association News

Fellowship of Speech Pathology Australia Fellowship is a public professional honour awarded to a person with considerable experience, responsibility and standing within the speech pathology profession. Council was pleased to recognise two outstanding recipients for this award.

Dr Amanda Scott Dr Amanda Scott is a speech pathologist with more than 30 years’ experience, making a long and sustained contribution to the profession. Amanda is a highly regarded clinician, researcher and educator who has actively and generously shared her expertise with many speech pathologists. Amanda has considerable expertise in the areas of

Sue Horton Sue Horton has been actively engaged with the Association

neuroscience and dysphagia management, working in several tertiary hospitals in Melbourne. Amanda established the Speech Pathology Department at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, where she was one of the first speech pathologists to be involved with clients with progressive neurological conditions and palliative care. Amanda has produced a number of

since becoming a speech pathologist in 1979. She has demonstrated leadership in many roles at a National and Branch level, including Branch President for six years, Councillor for five years and numerous Branch Executive roles. Sue has been a leader in contributing

to Association activities, a positive innovator encouraging the same in others and has excelled in all activities in which she has engaged. The expertise Sue has developed through her research, teaching and clinical practice is well recognised. Sue has been an important member of speech pathology programs at Flinders University and the University of Queensland, excelling in her teaching of motor speech disorders, professional practice topics and paediatric speech and language. Sue’s ongoing commitment to the professional education of students has demonstrated innovation and leadership. Sue was one of the first clinical educators to trial peer placement models, successfully changing the traditional ratios of clinical educator to student from 1:1 to 1:6 and enabling students to learn together in a model of genuine peer learning and mentoring. Since 2003 Sue integrated this model of clinical education in a school setting, where she successfully worked with six students per placement to provide services to an entire school community, significantly increasing the capacity to provide much needed speech pathology services to an otherwise underserviced population of students. Sue is well known for her leadership and expertise within the field of education. Sue is client and evidence focused, highly regarded by the families and school communities she works with and generous with her time and support for other speech pathologists. Sue brings a sustained energy and vitality to the profession through her sense of humour, down-to-earth approach and willingness to act for the benefit of the profession. Sue has earned broad respect as evidenced by the number of colleagues who seek her advice and support. It was with great pleasure that we awarded Sue with Fellowship.

groundbreaking publications and resources and has paved the way for new models of care and service delivery with these challenging client populations. Amanda has focused much of her work over the years on building and contributing to the growing bodies of evidence and formalised research within the profession. Amanda has achieved numerous publications including journal articles, book chapters and textbooks. She has provided support and advice, encouraging and assisting many of her colleagues in the application of research and small project grants, travelling scholarships and academic publications. Amanda was one of the earliest speech pathologists in Melbourne to embrace the use of VFSS as an objective measure for evaluating swallow disorders in neurological clients. She was instrumental in the establishment of a VFSS and Outpatient Dysphagia clinic at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem. In 2000, Amanda was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy for her research on the development of a scale to assess swallowing functioning in MND using videofluoroscopy. This work is regarded as seminal piece of research, with the scale being widely used by speech pathologists in a variety of sectors. As a result of this work, Amanda has been invited numerous times to teach and train at an international level on the subject of formalised evaluation of videofluoroscopy. Locally Amanda is a regular and sought after presenter at SIGS, workshops and conferences, highly regarded for her clear and practical presentation style and her unique ability to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. Dr Amanda Scott is a greatly admired speech pathologist who has made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the profession. We congratulate Dr Amanda Scott on her Fellowship.

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Speak Out August 2013

Speech Pathology Australia