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Tassie SPs get into the spirit of SPWeek 2014!

Speech pathologists from Tasmanian Health Organisation – South celebrated Speech Pathology Week 2014 with great gusto. Displays were organised at Clarence Integrated Care Centre and the Community Rehabilitation Unit, and in keeping with the theme of Nation for Communication , we communicated loudly and joyously with each other over a special lunch (pictured). In a perhaps unprecedented re-interpretation of the theme, we limited ourselves to food items beginning with ‘N’ or ‘C’. Luckily, this enabled us to consume chocolate!

Gudrun Barratt-Peacock Speech Pathologist, Tasmanian Health Organisation-South

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