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owned by The Learning Corporation, a software platform for rehabilitation tools after brain injury. Melanie Mununggurr- Williams is a Djapu mother, writer, poet and spoken word artist. She writes in both English and

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

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 6 countries

and performed at many festivals around Australia. Her first book of poetry for young adults is being released by Penguin later this year.

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industry partners to develop innovative training programs and clinical practices in China. 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

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

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.

Virtual National Conference

Associate Professor Sally Hewat is an academic in

Keynote and invited speakers 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. Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award Recipient speech 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 (SPA); 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).

Local Contexts, Global Practice: The 2021 Darwin Conference Planning Committee (CPC) warmly invites you to Speech Pathology Australia’s first Virtual National Conference 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, Yvette’s clinical concentration is twofold: (1) the social pragmatic language of children with histories of maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure and (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

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

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