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2015 national conference news

17–20 May 2015 National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia

Program Update The CPC is pleased to advise that the 2015 National Conference – C hallenge, B roaden, R evolutionise program has been finalised. This was a particularly challenging process this year given the large number of high quality submissions that were received. Despite the SPSC and CPC trying many and varied program formats, there unfortunately was not enough space to include every submission into the overall program and theme. We acknowledge and thank those for the time and effort taken to submit their abstracts. We are very pleased with the program, and believe there will be an excellent range of high quality presentations under a number of topics that will be of interest to a wide cross section of the profession. Each author who received notification late 2014 that their abstract has been included, were emailed the ‘official’ confirmation. If for some reason you have not been contacted, please email the National Conference Manager on conference@ speechpathologyaustralia.org.au . Conference Program Flyer Included within this issue of Speak Out you will find a copy of the Conference Program Flyer . This is an overview of the sessions that will be presented. Please note a change to the session names for M7 and M13.

They now read M7 Clinical education 1 and M13 Clinical education 2 . With regard to the conference program, the SPSC and CPC are delighted that the two Conference keynote speakers are each offering a masterclass presentation on the Sunday prior to the pre-registration and welcome event.

Professor Nelson will present a

Masterclass while in Canberra, providing delegates with practical methods to gather and analyse written story probes to describe a

student’s strengths and weaknesses at multiple language levels. She will further teach delegates how to use a collaborative classroom-based writing lab approach to blend language instruction for all students including those with a range of special needs, a must for paediatric speech pathologists. Professor Emeritus Rosenbek will conduct a pre- conference clinical Masterclass; the

emphasis will be on a variety of specific aphasia interventions

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including attention and intention therapies, VNeST and ARCS. Professor Rosenbek will include description of the active ingredients needed for successful therapy. This class is a must for clinicians working in the area of aphasia.

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