Speak Out August 2018

The 2019 conference was officially launched in Adelaide. Congratulations to Jennifer Boer from Queensland who was sitting in the ‘lucky seat’ and won the complimentary registration to the 2019 joint conference. The 2019 Conference Planning Committee (CPC) looks forward to bringing you updates about the joint conference in each issue of Speak Out and also through the monthly issue of conference eNews. Keynote & Invited speakers The CPC is pleased to introduce to you the first of our two keynote speakers. Information about the presentations by the keynote speakers will be available in the coming months. Launch of Engaging Collaborating Empowering 2 – 5 June 2019: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, QLD interventions to treat speech sound disorders in children and prevent reading disability in this population. She is the author of over 80 papers, two blogs, and two books on phonological development and disorders. Susan has developed three software tools to facilitate speech- language assessment and intervention. Awards include three Editors’ Awards for best annual paper, Fellowship in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Eve Kassirer Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement (Speech- Language and Audiology Canada). Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award recipient The CPC is pleased to announce that the SPA Board has accepted their nomination for Professor David Copland to receive the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award for 2019. Professor David Copland is a Professorial Research Fellow at The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. His research seeks to improve outcomes for people with aphasia through the development of new assessments and treatments and identifying better predictors of recovery and treatment response. David developed The University of Queensland LIFT program for aphasia with Professor Linda Worrall and his research also seeks to improve aphasia management through testing principles of neuroplasticity and understanding the neurobiological basis of language recovery and treatment using neuroimaging. He has published over 130 journal articles and obtained over $13 million in competitive grant funding including ARC and NHMRC grants and an ARC Future Fellowship. David received the inaugural NHMRC Research Excellence Award as Australia’s top-ranked Susan Rvachew, PhD, S-LP(C) is a Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University. Her research focuses on early infant speech development, speech sound disorders in preschool aged children, and designing more effective Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He leads the Language Neuroscience Lab and is group leader at The University of

NHMRC Clinical Career Development Fellow. He is currently an investigator on 5 NHMRC trials investigating various aspects of aphasia rehabilitation including the use of neuroimaging to predict aphasia treatment response and examining whether music listening boosts subacute aphasia recovery. Call for papers Proposals for presentations regarding working with Indigenous (Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander, Maaori) peoples. Are you considering submitting a proposal to present a project related to working with Maaori or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples? SPA and the NZSTA recognise the importance of Indigenous philosophies and research methodologies within both research and practice. The joint Australia / New Zealand conference planning committee, working with the SPA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee, have developed guidelines for presentations at the 2019 conference. These can be found in the instructions to authors on the conference website. We ask that you take these guidelines into account when developing your proposal. The extent to which adherence to the guidelines is demonstrated will be considered in the review process. The online submission is available at www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/nzspaconf We encourage you to "spread the news" through your many networks, colleagues and friends, wherever they are in the world. Send them the link to the conference website where they can read more about the joint conference and submission process. We have also included on the conference website instructions for making submissions which we hope will provide guidance and assistance before you proceed to the actual submission process and a checklist to ensure that you are prepared to finalise the submission. Please remember that delegates will only have access to the title of the paper and author(s) names when they register and select sessions they wish to attend, so please carefully think about your presentation title. This will help ensure the audience you wish to attract and have the greatest interest in your topic will attend. While the closing date for submissions is Wednesday 19 September 2018, there is no need to wait until the due date to submit your proposal. This will assist the Co-Scientific Program Chairs (CSPC) in managing the review process and help us develop the conference program in a timely manner. Call for reviewers The Co-Scientific Program Chairs (CSPC) are becoming increasingly busy as papers, posters and workshops are now being submitted. These submissions need to be reviewed, and the CSPC are encouraged by the response so far. If additional reviewers are required an announcement will be in conference eNews. Feedback survey The CPC is reading and discussing the feedback provided through this year’s conference survey to assist with planning for 2019. Where possible we will incorporate the suggestions/ recommendations. We would like to congratulate Ailie McArthur from South Australia who won the complimentary registration to the 2019 joint conference.

Alison Smith and Felicity Bright, 2019 Joint Conference Convenors Pamela Richards National Conference Manager

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