Student Speak Out November 2021

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Bachelor of Speech Pathology students Caroline Tiong and Ashleigh Elford worked hard in October to pull off two ‘events’ to coincide with the recent DLD Awareness and International Stuttering Awareness Days. DLD AWARENESS DAY (OCT 15) SPA Student Reps set up a stall on campus to promote DLD Awareness. Posters were printed from the www. radld.org website and put up around the stall. A short quiz (available from raldad.org) was also printed and laminated, and students could attempt the quiz with friends. The quiz was a successful resource for starting a discussion about DLD. SPA reps had pre-painted river rocks in a variety of colours, and these were available for students to decorate, and add the DLD Awareness hashtags to the back. Students were then encouraged to hide their painted rocks around campus. This was a successful and fun way to raise awareness. Students were excited by the rock painting, and many students got involved from a variety of faculties. The nature of the activity meant that students spent about 5-10 minutes at the stall, in order to decorate their rock(s) which was a great opportunity for a discussion about DLD, many

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