Speak Out June 2019

Keynote and invited speakers

The CPC is pleased to announce the following: Professor Swathi Kiran has accepted our invitation to be one of our two keynote speakers to present a Masterclass, Keynote Address and Seminar. Swathi Kiran is Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the Associate

Dean Research Training. Sally’s work has been supported by international and external funding exceeding $2M and has been recognised through five University awards; including two VC citations for outstanding contribution to student learning. Sally’s leadership has enabled international mobility and education for Australian speech pathology students, securing more than $350k in short-term mobility funding to support more than 70 students over the past five years to undertake assessable clinical placements across the Asia Pacific Region. Sally is recognised nationally and internationally as an innovative academic leader in transnational education, curriculum development and the preparation of speech pathology students for practice. 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). Sally’s recent her work has focused on the development of speech pathology in majority world countries and under-served communities. Sally volunteers on the Board of Directors of the Trinh Foundation Australia to support the development of speech therapy in Vietnam. Sally has been recognized with a prestigious award and medal from the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for her ongoing support and development of the speech therapy profession. Sally is also working in collaboration with Orient Speech Therapy, on the development of the first speech therapy curricula for China. On behalf of the CPC, we look forward to bringing to you the 2020 National Conference, 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 .

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

Associate Professor Sally Hewat has accepted our invitation to present the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Award Lecture. Associate Professor Sally Hewat is the Head of Speech Pathology at The University of Newcastle. Sally’s leadership roles have included Head of Discipline, Deputy Head of School (Research) and Assistant

Bea Staley Conference Convenor, 2020 Pamela Richards National Conference Manager

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