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Barbara is a highly committed speech pathologist with a distinguished career of service to both her profession and to Speech Pathology Australia. She brings integrity, energy and generosity of spirit that has earnt her both respect and admiration. Barbara has demonstrated great skill in managerial roles which have impacted speech pathology services to preschool and school aged children, in South Australia. She has also championed life long professional learning at both a local and national level, through a range of roles and activities for Speech Pathology Australia. Barbara is known as a collaborator, an outstanding advocate for the profession and a strategic leader.

Lis’ successful applications for funding have enabled projects, provided research infrastructure and supported aligned learning activities. She has a long track record of publishing in high quality high impact journals in speech pathology, communication disorders, linguistics and psychology. Lis’ publications have received over 600 citations. Lis has been an invited speaker to prominent research forums worldwide, including the ASHA Annual Convention and the World Congress on Fluency Disorders. Lis is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, teaching in the Master of Speech and Language Pathology program and conducting research on the nature, assessment and treatment of stuttering. Lis was the Program Director of the Master of Speech and Language Pathology program between 2009 and 2017. Lis has been involved in the accreditation of speech pathology professional-entry degree programs, since 2007, acting as Panel Chair for the accreditation of several programs. In addition to her accreditation activities, Lis has been an invited advisor and examiner for professional- entry speech pathology education programs at three individual universities. Dr Elisabeth Harrison has made a unique and profoundly meaningful contribution to speech pathology in Australia as her career has developed over the past 40 years. Her achievements as a researcher, as a clinician, as an educator, and as an accreditor are compelling. Barbara Lyndon

Professor Patricia McCabe Professor Patricia (Tricia) McCabe has made a sustained and outstanding contribution to Speech Pathology Australia, the education of speech pathologists and progression of the evidence base for speech pathology practice in childhood motor speech disorders. Achieved through world class research, clinical practice and her mentoring and development of speech pathology academics and clinicians. Tricia’s contribution to the Speech Pathology community, both in

Australia and internationally is demonstrated through her sustained commitment and active participation. Tricia embodies the values of Speech Pathology Australia nat a national level and through her ongoing involvement in the NSW branch. In particular, Tricia’s leadership in the areas of University accreditation and Scientific Affairs have been outstanding. Tricia is an internationally renowned leader in the area of Childhood Apraxia of Speech and her foundational and continued research in this area has transformed current diagnostic and treatment processes. Her commitment to the translation of her research is demonstrated through the development and delivery of her freely accessible ReST treatment website, which is utilised by speech pathology communities across the globe and through her commitment to providing education, mentoring, coaching and support for clinicians and students to facilitate them to provide evidenced based services to the community. Tricia is deeply committed to ensuring the communities served by Speech Pathologists, and in particular, those children with CAS are provided with culturally appropriate services that reflect the best use of evidence, and she models these values in her practice, research and teaching. Across an extensive research career, Tricia has 84 career publications including 8 books and book chapters, 63 peer reviewed journal articles with 12 as first author, 6 conference proceedings papers and 7 published conference abstracts. Her contribution to research has spanned a range of speech pathology practice areas, including child and adult motor speech disorders, voice, and the translation of evidence based practice. Tricia was invited to present the prestigious 2017 Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award Lecture. The topic of her lecture and the companion article that was published in the 2018 special conference issue of IJSLP was ‘How do we change our clinical practice?’, which explored themes about behaviour and practice change including exemplars of effective and ineffective research translation in our profession. In line with Tricia’s commitment to evidence translation, she has been a member of the SpeechBITE board since 2008, a project initially funded by Speech Pathology Australia and has additionally led research to demonstrate the efficacy of the database in clinical practice.

Barbara Lyndon has been a long-term and contributing member of Speech Pathology Australia, having held a variety of roles since 1984, including Branch Chair, Branch Secretary, Branch Continuing Professional Development Portfolio Leader and National Conference Convenor for two Speech Pathology Australia National Conferences, including the highly successful 2018 National Conference. Most recently, Barbara was appointed to the Professional Standards

Advisory Committee, providing advice on a number of vital strategic areas including the CBOS review, practice documents and eligibility assessment. Barbara is currently the Principal Speech Pathologist in the Department of Education in South Australia. She has held various titles since her appointment to Senior Speech Pathologist in 1987, but always in a position of clinical seniority. Barbara is committed to life-long learning and instilling this in others, consistently fostering professional development opportunities for junior and senior clinicians in her agency. Since taking up her position in the State Office of the Department of Education in 2004, Barbara has increased the number of student placements offered by the department by supporting clinicians, through the development and delivery of tutorial packages to students on placement. This has made the student’s experiences more consistent and lightened the load on individual clinical educators. Barbara has always championed the role of the speech pathologist being a collaborator with principals and teachers, and she has pioneered the way for South Australian speech pathologists to start conversations with other professionals, and develop programs and resources across all tiers of intervention.

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