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acknowledged in 2012 with her transfer to Fellowship. Subsequently, in 2015 Pam was selected to present the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture, “Language is literacy is language. Positioning Speech Language Pathology in education policy, practice, paradigms and polemics”. Pam has contributed to and guided academic teaching in the field of human communication disorders across three Australian Universities, Deakin, LaTrobe and Monash, and through international outreach as a review group member for the Nuffield Foundation, visiting scholar to the University of Auckland and as a collaborator at the University of Nebraska. Pam’s clinically relevant and clearly written peer reviewed works are either required or recommended reading for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide. As an internationally renowned researcher in the field of speech pathology, Pam has an outstanding publication record, including over 150 scholarly works across diverse areas. Pam has attained many highly competitive and prestigious research grants from the Australia Research Council and other external funding bodies. Pam has encouraged innovation in treatment and management particularly in the area of TBI rehabilitation and has been an inspirational mentor and role model for other speech pathologists. In her own

words, Pam’s “research passion is language and literacy competence – primarily as this pertains to vulnerability in early life.” Pam is an exceptional ambassador, advocate, communicator and role model for speech pathology in everything she undertakes, She is approachable, empathetic, loyal, funny, consistent, generous in time and effort, and unapologetically committed to clients and community in every strata of society. Pam’s professional career is characterised by an unsurpassed work ethic with a meticulous emphasis on scientific rigour; a conscientious commitment to fairness and social justice; a kind, empathic, balanced approach to resolving the inevitable workplace conflicts and challenges; and, an unpretentious duty to ethical, evidence-based practice across disciplines.

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