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Professor Swathi Kiran is Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing

Sciences and the Associate Dean for Research at the College for Health and

Rehabilitation Sciences

at Boston University. She received her Ph.D from

Northwestern University. Her research interests focus around lexical semantic treatment for individuals with aphasia, bilingual aphasia and

neuroimaging of brain plasticity following a stroke. She has over 100 publications and her work has

appeared in high impact journals across a variety of disciplines including cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, rehabilitation, speech language pathology and bilingualism.

Swathi is a fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and serves on various journal editorial boards and grant review panels including at National Institutes of Health. Her

work has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health/NIDCD and American Speech

Language Hearing Foundation awards including the New Investigator grant, the New Century Scholar’s Grant and the Clinical Research grant.

She is the co-founder and scientific advisor for Constant Therapy, now owned by The Learning Corporation, a software platform for rehabilitation tools after brain injury.

Associate Professor Sally Hewat is an academic in speech

Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award Recipient

pathology and Assistant Dean, International at the University

of Newcastle. Sally’s work has been supported by international

and external funding exceeding $2M and has been recognised through five university awards. She is

recognised internationally as an innovative academic leader in transnational education, curriculum development and the preparation of speech

pathology students for practice. Her leadership has enabled international mobility for more than

70 speech pathology students supported by over $350k to undertake assessable clinical placements across the Asia Pacific Region. Sally is an Accreditation Assessor for Speech

Pathology Australia; she led the 2018 SPA Clinical Education in Australia project and was an integral member of the National Simulation in Speech Pathology project (2014-2018). Recently, her

work has focused on the development of speech pathology in majority world countries and under- served communities. Sally volunteers on the Board of Trinh Foundation Australia supporting

the development of speech pathology in Vietnam. Sally has been recognised with a prestigious award and medal from the People’s Committee of Ho

Chi Minh City. Sally is also working in collaboration with universities and industry partners to develop

innovative training programs and clinical practices in China.

Keynote and invited speakers L o c a l C o n t e x t s , G l o b a l P r a c t i c e : The 2020 Conference Planning Committee (CPC) warmly invites you to Darwin to connect with others, discover new evidence and build your enthusiasm to look to future opportunities in your professional work. We look forward to seeing you there! Professor Yvette Hyter is Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, USA and a Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. Her research and teaching focus on the influences of culture on communication development and disorders, with emphasis in the areas of (1) pragmatic language and social communication of speakers of African American English and (2) culturally responsive and globally sustainable practices. As a founding member of the Children’s Trauma Assessment Center of Southwest Michigan, Professor Hyter’s clinical concentration is twofold: (1) the social pragmatic language of children with histories of maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure and

Please visit the National Conference website for the abstracts of our keynote and invited speakers.

24 - 27 May 2020

National Conference Darwin

(2) transdisciplinary assessments. She developed a social pragmatic communication assessment battery for young children that is currently being tested in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, and the United States.

As Co-Director of a nonprofit, Cultural Connections: Transnational Research and Education Laboratory, Professor Hyter co-teaches study-abroad courses in West Africa and in the U.S. Midwest about the causes and consequences of globalisation on systems, policies, and practices. She has published articles underscoring the need for conceptual frameworks

guiding practice in globally sustainable ways, a co- authored book on culturally responsive practices, and served in leadership positions regarding global practice, diversity, inclusion, and equity.

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