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2016 national conference

15–18 May 2016 Crown Perth, Western Australia

Pam has been the lead supervisor for 26 successful doctoral students, the principal investigator on in excess of 50 research projects spanning three decades totalling in excess of £7.5 million, been the principal author of 14 books and published more than a 150 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Keynote & Invited Speakers The 2016 CPC is pleased to announce Emeritus Professor Pamela Enderby and Dr Susan Ebbels have accepted the invitation to be our keynote speakers in Perth.

Pamela (Pam) Enderby is Emeritus Professor of Community Rehabilitation at the University of Sheffield, UK. She qualified as a

Dr Susan Ebbels is a speech and language therapist and the Research & Development Coordinator at Moor House School and

speech and language therapist in 1970 and from an early stage in her career combined research with clinical practice. She worked in the NHS in London and Bristol where she was District Therapist and set up the first Communication Aids Centre in the UK and the Speech and Language Research Unit. In 1995 she moved to Sheffield to a combined NHS and university research post. At the university she has held the positions of Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. More recently, she has completed three years as the Clinical Director of the South Yorkshire Comprehensive Local Research Network, and one year as Chair of Sheffield Healthwatch, on whose board she still serves. She is also a trustee of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Pam was the lead in the Equal Pay case which, after 14 years, was found in favour of speech and language therapists in the European Court of Human Justice. She was awarded a Fellowship of the College of Speech Therapists and was honoured with an MBE for services to speech and language therapy. A DSc was awarded by the University of the West of England in 2000. In 2012 she was awarded the Robin Tavistock for her contribution to aphasia.

College, Surrey, UK, a special school for children with developmental language impairments (DLI) aged 7–19. She has an honorary position at the University College London, is an associate editor of the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders and on the editorial board of Child Language Teaching and Therapy . She is also a specialist advisor on school-aged children with language impairments for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Susan gained her PhD from UCL in 2005; this was completed part-time while continuing clinical work three days a week. She is passionate about the need for evidence based practice in speech and language therapy and has carried out and coordinated many intervention studies in the school on a range of areas, but with a particular focus on improving the comprehension and production of grammar in children with DLI using her “Shape Coding” method. Susan lectures and runs courses for SLTs on appraising the evidence, carrying out research in clinical practice, the current evidence base for school-aged children with language impairments and practical courses on “Shape Coding”.

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