Speak Out February 2021 DIGITAL EDITION

Please visit the conference website for the biographies and abstracts of the keynote and invited presenters.

treats and face-to-face networking with your fellow peers, but you do get a smorgasbord of brain food and a digital goodie bag. The sessions will be a mix of pre-recorded presentations with live question time and online workshops via Zoom, so we recommend that you download it onto your device prior to the conference. Click this link to sign up for a free Zoom account https://zoom.us . Time will be allocated for further discussion with speakers, exhibitors, catching up with friends or joining the many chat groups. While you be able to view various sections as they are updated on the platform around the end of April, the actual virtual national conference will not go live until 10.00am AEST on Monday 31 May 2021. Conference quiz For your chance to win either a complimentary conference registration to the Melbourne 2022 National Conference or a $200 gift card, enter the 2021 Virtual Conference Quiz, and be in online at the closing ceremony on the Wednesday afternoon of the conference when the lucky names will be drawn. Quiz questions are included in each month’s issue of Conference eNews. Sponsorship and Exhibition The CPC would like to thank our current sponsors Guild Insurance, Psychological Assessments Australia and Precise, and those companies and organisations participating in the exhibition. The Sponsorship & Exhibition Invitation is available from our website. Please direct any company or organisation you consider interested in participating to this link. To view all the Conference information please visit www. speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/spaconf2021 On behalf of the Darwin CPC, we invite you to join us for the Speech Pathology Australia’s first virtual national conference. Bea Staley 2021 Conference Convenor Pamela Richards National Conference Manager Registrations "Go Live" Wednesday 10 February

To close our sessions on Monday, we have invited Melanie Mununggurr- Williams to provide her thoughts on Reflections on reconciliation. Melanie is a Djapu mother, writer, poet and spoken word artist. She writes in both English and Dhuwal (Yolngu Matha dialect) about identity, family, current social issues. Melanie also uses her writing as a platform for

raising awareness about autism. She often weaves Dhuwal throughout her writing as a way of decolonising literature and the arts. In 2019 Melanie travelled to six countries and performed at many festivals around Australia. Her first book of poetry for young adults is being released by Penguin later this year. Registration Registration for Local Contexts, Global Practice . The online conference brochure and registration will GO LIVE from the conference process has not changed from previous years and you will be asked to select the sessions you wish to attend at this time. You can also select from a full three-day registration to a selected day/s registration of your choice. The early bird rate closes midnight AEST Wednesday 14 April 2021 . To try to ensure a faster process and less chance of being logged out, we advise that you read through the conference program, select the sessions you wish to attend, and then proceed to the online registration process. Be sure to read all details of the concurrent sessions to further inform your selection decisions. Virtual National Conference No plane ticket. No accommodation. No packing that oversized bag. Sure, you’re going to miss out on tasty website at noon AEST Wednesday 10 February 2021. The registration

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