Speak Up

In this week’s episode, Amy Fitzpatrick, SPA’s Senior Advisor – Disability, chats with Cath Fernando, Speech Pathologist, and Melissa Maddox, Autistic Speech Pathologist. Cath and Melissa explore neurodiversity affirming practice through a speech pathology lens. Please follow these links for resources mentioned in the episode: https://neuroclastic.com/autism/what-is-autism/?amp https://ausometrain...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Heather Renton, founder of SWAN Australia and parent of a child with FOXP1 syndrome. Heather explores the work of SWAN Australia and provides her lived experience of parenting a child with a rare genetic condition. Please follow this link to access the SWAN Australia website: https://swanaus.org.au/ Speech Pathology Australia acknowledges the...

In this week’s episode, Maire MacCana, community-based Speech Pathologist with the Tasmanian Health Service, chats with Jasvinder Sekhon, Speech Pathologist and PhD student at La Trobe University. Jasvinder explores her current research into counselling training for speech pathologist to support the psychological wellbeing of people with post-stroke aphasia. Please email speakuppodcast@speechpatho...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor – Mental Health and Trauma, Laura Caire, chats with Sarah Verdon, Associate Professor in Speech and Language at Charles Sturt University. Sarah explores the importance of considering adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) when assessing the communication development of children. Please follow this link to access the ACE questionnaire mentioned in this ep...

In recognition of International Developmental Language Disorder Day on Friday 14th October, SPA’s Anneke Flinn chats with Lisa Quinn, Speech Pathologist and Head of Allied Health at Language Disorder Australia about all things DLD. Please follow this link to access the Language Disorder Australia website: https://languagedisorder.org.au/ Please follow this link to access the RADLD website: https:/...

In this week’s episode, Lauren Fletcher, Senior Speech Pathologist at Epworth Rehabilitation and Mental Health in Melbourne speaks with Dr Jade Dignam, Speech Pathologist and Postdoctural Research Fellow at Queensland Aphasia Research Centre (QARC). Jade explores her current research into the Comprehensive High-Dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) program. If you would like any further information about...

In this week’s episode, Bethany Wilson, Speech Pathologist in private practice in Western Australia, speaks with Mark Elsing. Mark shares his personal experience of living with dysarthria post-stroke and provides some interesting insights into being a consumer of speech pathology services. Speech Pathology Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of lands, seas and waters throughout Austr...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor – Justice, Mary Woodward, chats to four members of South Australia’s Youth Justice service – Melissa Saliba (Speech Pathologist), Larissa Ashton (Speech Pathologist), Chris Galimitakis (Psychologist) and Luke Francis (Occupational Therapist). Melissa, Larissa, Chris and Luke explore their multidisciplinary approach when working with young people in the...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor for Disability, Amy Fitzpatrick, chats with Professor Bronwyn Hemsley, Head of Speech Pathology at the University of Technology Sydney and Project Lead of the “Co-creating Safe and Enjoyable Meals for People with Swallowing Disability” project. Bronwyn explores the project and resulting co-designed and co-created training program. To access the Enjoy Sa...

In recognition of RUOK Day on Thursday 8th September, four members of SPA’s Early Career Reference Group – Brianna Tuckerman, Vivienne Hui, Davina Lo and Julie Sax – explore sources of stress and burn out in speech pathology and how to manage it at four different points along the speech pathology career journey – student, early career, mid-career and later-career. The group chat to Brittany Fong,...

In this week’s episode, Lisa Terry and Samantha Bradley, Senior Speech Pathologists from Monash Health, speak with Dr Laura Chahda, from the University of Melbourne, and Dr Lindsay Carey, from La Trobe University. Laura and Lindsay explore the role of speech pathology in palliative care through the lens of their award winning paper “Speech-language pathologists and adult palliative care in Austral...

In this week’s special Speech Pathology Week episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn takes you around Australia to hear from members of our wonderful Speech Pathology community. Speech Pathology Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of lands, seas and waters throughout Australia, and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. We recognise that the health and social and emotional wellbeing of...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor - Mental Health and Trauma, Laura Caire, speaks with Anna Kearns and Lauren Hamill from Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Anna and Lauren explore the importance of routine screening and onward referral for families who have unmet basic needs. Please follow the links for resources mentioned by Anna and Lauren in the episode: • Social Interventions Re...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn chats to Eliza Galvin and Louise Philpott, Senior Speech Pathologists, about their role supporting auctioneers attending the Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association (ALPA) training program with their voice and presentation skills. A number of members of ALPA also generously speak about their perspective of working with Speech Pathologists. Sp...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Dr. Renato Ulpiano, Co-founder of Ladybug House and Director of the Little Bugs Foundation charity. Ren explores his recent doctoral research into online systems for rating health professionals. For information about SPA’s advertising policy, please follow this link (member login required): https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/SPAweb/Me...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn chats to Larney Lamers, Psychologist from Mullum Road Psychology Clinic, and Gen Ward, Senior Speech Pathologist, Animal Assisted Therapist and Director of The Speech Express. Larney and Gen explore a number of important clinical considerations when working with people with ADHD. Keep an eye on the Speech Pathology Australia Learning Hub for details about...

In this week’s episode, Kristen Potts, private speech pathologist, explores four AAC case studies across the lifespan with experienced speech pathologist and AAC enthusiast Amanda Hartmann. Amanda is a lecturer at the University of Queensland, a consultant with AssistiveWare and runs her own private practice, 4 Little Monkeys, in Brisbane. Keep an eye on the Speech Pathology Australia Learning Hub...

In this week’s episode, the SPA Ethics Team – Trish Johnson, Nadia Marussinszky and Kelly Williams – chat about the responsibility all speech pathologists hold when interacting online in the digital world. Please refer to this link to access the SPA FAQs about testimonials mentioned in this episode: https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/SPAweb/Resources_for_Speech_Pathologists/Advertising/Te...

In this week’s slightly longer episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Dr Kieran Flanagan, Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Speech Pathology at Australian Catholic University in Queensland. Kieran explores three current research papers in the area of Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Murray, E., Iuzzini-Seigel, J., Maas, E., Terband, H., & Ballard, K. J. (2021). Differential diagnosis of child...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Dr Maria Lathouras, speech pathologist and Project Manager at the Autism Hub, Department of Education – Queensland. Maria explores some key considerations in regards to reading assessment and intervention for primary school aged students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. For further information about Maria’s upcoming Speech Pathology Australia...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Kate Pollard, Senior Speech Pathologist, Director of Melaleuca Therapies situated in Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, and member of the FASD Hub Australia. Kate chats about the speech pathology role when working with people with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Please follow this link to access the FASD Hub Australia: https://www.fasdhub.org.au...

In this week’s episode, Matthew Ernst, Speech Pathologist and Regional Manager – Better Rehab in Queensland, speaks with Dr. Cath Gregory, Speech Pathologist and lecturer, from the University of Technology Sydney. Cath chats about the speech pathology role when working with people with a Functional Neurological Disorder. For further information about the Functional Neurological Disorder Society pl...

In this week’s episode, Kate Broderick, Speech Pathologist, Occupational Therapist and Director of Spot Therapy Hub in Sydney, chats all things paediatric feeding with Carly Veness, Speech Pathologist and founder of Babble and Munch Speech Pathology. Carly speaks about responsive feeding therapy, the importance of infant mental health in paediatric feeding and her own paediatric feeding journey. T...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Senior Advisor for Disability, Amy Fitzpatrick, speaks with the Autism Assessment Team at Melton Health – Dr Mandira Hiremath – Paediatrician, Joanne Romell – Speech Pathologist, Claire Thorpe – Occupational Therapist and Alex Charalambous – Clinical Psychologist. The team explore how their ASD consensus team works to achieve assessments consistent with the “National...

In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn chats with Rosie Miller, SPA Professional Standards Advisor, and Tara Lewis, SPA’s Senior Advisor for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy and Practice. Rosie and Tara explore the upcoming changes to Speech Pathology Australia’s Certification Program. Please refer to this link for more information on the Certification program, including the Cert...