Speak Out August 2020 DIGITAL EDITION

And, the winners are... people with disability and communication impairment. Although recently retired, her advocacy role continues through ongoing work for the Australian Society for Intellectual and Development Disabilities and support and mentoring of junior colleagues. Professor Pamela Snow Pamela graduated with a

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.

Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology) from the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in 1981, and in 1985 was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Communication Disorders (Neuropsychology and Aphasia) by the same Institution. After twelve years of clinical, administrative, and student supervision experience, Pamela was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by La

Trobe University in 1997, receiving the Graduate Research Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the A. R. Luria Prize for the most outstanding paper based on Doctoral research at the 22nd Brain Impairment Conference. In 2004 Pamela was registered as a Psychologist in Victoria, and in 2008 achieved a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education fromMonash University. Among at least eight other distinctions and awards, Pam was honoured, in 2017, with Learning Difficulties Australia’s Mona Tobias Award “for an outstanding contribution to the field of learning difficulties through research and practice”. Pam’s contributions to Speech Pathology Australia’s activities were acknowledged in 2012 with her transfer to Fellowship. Subsequently, in 2015 Pam was selected to present the

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