Research, Innovation, and Community Gallery Night
Acquired brain injury/traumatic brain injury (ABI/TBI)
Acute care – adult
ADHD
Adolescent
Adult
Advocacy
Aged care
Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
Aphasia
Articulation
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Assessment
Autism (ASD)
Business and independent/private practice
Cancer
Change management
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Coaching
Cognitive communication
Collaboration
Complex communication needs (CCN)
Comprehension
Continuous quality improvement
Cultural responsiveness
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Disability
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)
Dyslexia
Dysphagia
Early childhood education
Early intervention
Early language
Early years education
Education
Ethics
Evidence based practice
Executive functioning
Expressive language
Feeding
Fluency
Grammar and syntax
Head and neck
Hearing loss
Inclusive education
Infant feeding
Innovative practice
International/global
Interprofessional collaborative practice
Justice
Language disorder (e.g. LD associated with...)
Leadership
Literacy
Mealtime support
Mental health
Mentoring
Multidisciplinary practice
Narrative
NDIS
Neuro-developmental disability
Neurodiversity
Oncology
Oral language
Paediatric/Infant
Parent/carer training
Phonological and Phonemic awareness
Phonological impairment
Practice (clinical) education
Pragmatic language
Prevention
Private practice
Professional practice
Professional standards
Professional support
Project planning/management
Quality improvement
Reading
Reading comprehension
Receptive language
Research
School age
Semantics
Service delivery
Social communication
Specific learning disorders
Speech
Speech sound disorders
Stroke
Student
Stuttering/fluency
Supervision
Swallowing
Telepractice
Therapy
Tracheostomy
Transdisciplinary practice
Trauma informed practice
Voice
Youth justice
| Friday, June 26, 2026 |
| 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
Presenter
Professor Stacie Attrill
University
Assessment and management of swallowing and communication in patients with Head and Neck cancer requiring a tracheostomy: a scoping review
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Professor Stacie Attrill is from Adelaide University. Her research focusses on workforce planning and development and practice education. She is particularly interested in developing services that and inclusive, and reflect the broad communities served.
Dr Elizabeth Bourne
University Of Sydney
Bridging the gap: Supporting student speech pathologists for high-quality stuttering management
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Ms Melissa Egan
Royal Far West
Reducing barriers to care: Improving access to neurodevelopmental assessments in rural and remote communities
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Mel is a Multi-disciplinary Team Leader and a Speech Pathologist based in Sydney. She is passionate about working with children and their families. Having worked as a speech pathologist for over 10 years Mel has experience in private practice, not-for-profit and within the NHS in the UK. Since 2019, Mel has been working at Royal Far West for over 6 years and is committed to supporting children and families from rural and remote Australia.
Professor Li Sheng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Referential cohesion in the narratives of Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder
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Ms Annabelle Vaughan
UTAS
Evaluating assessment tools for central facial palsy: Reliability, validity and feasibility in stroke rehabilitation
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Ms Georgia Campbell
Splash Paediatric Therapy
Well-being in action: Putting happiness factors into practice for speech pathologists and occupational therapists at work.
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Miss King Yin Cheung
NextSense
Understanding the hearing loss diagnosis journey of infants in Australia: Implications for speech pathology practice in early intervention
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Dr Shaun Ziegenfusz
Griffith University | The DLD Project
Thriving and On Track (TOTs): Evaluating a collaborative community-based systems response to support early childhood educator capacity and collaborative practice
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Ms Harmony Turnbull
Department For Education, Children And Young People
This is personal: Understanding the experiences of people with lifelong communication disability reading their allied health reports
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Dr Genevieve Vuong
Southern Cross University and Gold Coast Private Hospital
The delivery of TeleCHAT: Key features supporting program acceptability for People with Aphasia.
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Dr Charissa Zaga
Austin Health
The Crit-CAT study: Validation of the Communication with an Artificial airway Tool in critically ill patients with an artificial airway
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Dr Victoria Sandham
Queensland Centre Of Excellence Intellectual Disability & Autism Health
Systemic therapy in speech pathology services
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Ms Kelly Jones
NSW Health
Swallowing difficulties in mental health – are they noticed and are they actioned?
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Ms Luyuan Geng
Referential cohesion in the narratives of Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder
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Ms Donna Arulogun
Queensland Department Of Education
Scaling What Works: Implementing System-Level Reading Supports through Speech Pathology Practice
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Donna Arulogun is a Manager – Speech Language Pathology in the Reading Disorders - Language and Literacy team in the Queensland Department of Education. Donna is a Speech Pathologist specialising in the prevention, identification and support of spoken and written language development and disorders in children and adolescents in an education setting.
Mrs Melissa Fischer
Meljay Speech Pathology
Risk and protective factors for oral language development in children: A mapping review.
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Dr Emma Grace
Flinders University
Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondence confusion patterns and accuracy in 4-7 year old Australian children
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Miss Samantha Severino
Royal Far West
Reducing barriers to care: Improving access to neurodevelopmental assessments in rural and remote communities
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Dr Emma Charters
Chris O'brien Lifehouse
Quantifying Bite Forces for Solid Foods: Implications for Patients Postmandibular Reconstruction
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Dr. Charters is the team leader of speech pathology at Chris Obrien lifehouse. She has developed the service with an integrated research agenda focusing on communication and swallowing rehabilitation after head and neck cancer.
Her research interests are swallowing and communication rehabilitation after TORS, restoration of oral competence following facial nerve injury, jaw reconstruction and trismus. Dr Charters completed her PhD in 2021, her thesis examined the impact that advances in head and neck cancer treatment has on swallowing and communication outcomes.
She is the co-developer of a novel, 3D printed device purpose built for trismus rehabilitation and holds a joint clinical and research position at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse.
Assoc Professor Dustin Lau
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Psycholinguistic norms of 350 object pictures in Hong Kong Cantonese – A preliminary report
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Miss Jessica Ruhle
The University Of Queensland
“I go but I don’t participate”: A scoping review with thematic analysis of the lived experience of adults with voice disorders
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Ms Amanda Jackson
Kids Are Kids!
Our journey towards trauma informed practice
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Amanda Jackson is a seasoned speech pathologist with over 30 years of experience spanning rural and remote Western Australia, the disability sector, and more recently, the Not-for-Profit space. Her career has been defined by a deep commitment to supporting vulnerable children and families. Amanda brings energy and heart to her work, believing strongly in the power of inspiring and equipping teams so they can thrive in delivering the vital services that change lives.
Dr Ruochen Ning
University Of Toronto
Neural correlates underlying paediatric language development: Considering late talking and developmental language disorder
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Ruochen Ning holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). Her dissertation examined the acquisition of Catalan as a third language by adult learners of Chinese origin, shaped both by Catalonia’s unique sociolinguistic landscape and their native language and cultural background. Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the PedLLs Lab, funded by the CIHR and US NIH, her research investigates the neural mechanisms underlying late talking in toddlers and developmental language disorder (DLD) in preschool-aged children. She is particularly interested in the interplay between early language delays and long-term developmental outcomes, using neuroimaging and computational approaches to uncover predictive biomarkers of DLD and inform early detection and intervention strategies.
Dr Anna Eva Hallin
Karolinska Institutet
Narrative and expository skills in students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): The importance of elicitation context
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Mrs Elizabeth McBride
Language Disorder Australia, Mancel College
Language Lizards: A whole-class approach to language intervention
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Miss Tamra Staples
University Of Sydney, Compass Allied Health
Inside the clinic room: How does a speech sound disorder get diagnosed?
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Tamra Staples is a PhD candidate and clinician based in Tamworth, NSW. Tamra has worked in community health and in disability with a focus on children with speech sound disorders, feeding and early communication delay. Tamra is working under Professor Tricia McCabe and Dr Elizabeth Murray to complete a PhD around the the diagnostic reasoning process when speech pathologists assess speech sound disorders.
Dr Samuel Calder
Identyfying areas for participation-focused support for children and young people addressing the functional impact of Developmental Language Disorder
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Dr Sam Calder is a speech pathologist, clinical educator, researcher, and lecturer. He completed his undergraduate degree in linguistics at the University of Western Australia, and his Master of Speech Pathology and PhD in Human Communication Sciences at Curtin University. His PhD research evaluated the efficacy of a novel intervention to improve grammar outcomes for children with Developmental Language Disorder. He is currently a full-time teaching and research academic at the University of Tasmania where he has been appointed as Research Integrity Advisor. Sam is also an adjunct research fellow at Curtin University. Sam is passionate about improving our understanding of the origins and impact of Developmental Language Disorder, and how to improve outcomes to best support these children and young people to thrive and live life to their desired potential.
Miss Caitlin Andrews
Communicate Better Speech Pathology
Implementation of Screen-Clean-Hydrate in regional South Australia: A pre-post-implementation audit of care processes
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Assoc Professor Cara Millar
Victoria University
Global Perspectives on Impact: A Scoping Review of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Roles in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Care Across MRA Countries
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CaraJane is the discipline lead and Associate Professor at Victoria University Speech Pathology program. Throughout CaraJane's career she has worked in aged care, hospitals, rural and remote health, community health, government, education and now in Teritary studies.
CaraJane is passionate about social justice and therefore has focussed her research on assisting the CALD community to receive the best levels of health and community care no matter where they are from or who they are.
Lauren Boeyen
Anglicaresa
Exploring the Experiences of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Speech Pathologists
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Lauren Boeyen is a new graduate speech pathologist who completed a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) at the University of Adelaide in 2024, where her thesis was awarded the University of Adelaide Thesis Prize. Her thesis explored the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse speech pathologists practicing in Australia. Currently, she works as a speech pathologist at AnglicareSA within the Outreach and Therapeutic Services team, supporting individuals to overcome communication challenges and engage fully in their communities.
Ms Keely McIntosh
Talking Tall Speech Pathology
Exploring a neglected field: Neglect dyslexia
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Jacqueline Collins
Canton Beach Speech Pathology /Macquarie University (Phd Student)
Evidence for the treatment of co-occurring stuttering and speech sound disorders in children: A scoping review of the literature.
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Miss Wing Nam Crystal Yuen
The University Of Hong Kong
Effect of a singing-based voice intervention for older adults with presbyphonia
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Crystal Yuen is a speech pathologist and PhD candidate from the Voice Research Lab of the University of Hong Kong.
Miss Sumail Singh
Considerations for working with complex presentations in complex systems; from a justice lens
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Mr Wilson Yiu Shun Lam
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Clinician-AI collaboration in clinical bedside non-invasive instrumental dysphagia screening: an example of point-of-care ultrasound
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Wilson Lam is a PhD candidate in Computational Deglutology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Having a diverse academic and professional background, he is interested in appreciating the nature of human communication and deglutition through basic science. Prior to his PhD study, he practiced in the adult disability service and found his passion in bringing technology to speech pathology and healthcare.
Ms Cath Fernando
Spoons Advocacy
Challenging the norms of clinical practice: Changing a whole-of-school culture to include one PDA profile Autistic child.
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Assoc Professor Suzanne Hopf
Charles Sturt University
Building confidence and competence in telepractice assessment: An online clinical placement model
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Katrina Gott
The University Of Sydney
Bridging the gap: Supporting student speech pathologists for high-quality stuttering management
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Mrs Jodie Betts
Queensland Department of Education
Bridging the Communication Gap: An Open Educational Resource on Aphasia for Healthcare Students
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Jodie Betts is a newly graduated speech pathologist employed by the Department of Education, with clinical experience in hospital rehabilitation and school settings. She is passionate about promoting communication awareness and education.
For her honours research, Jodie developed an innovative Open Educational Resource (OER) on aphasia for non-speech pathology healthcare students. Her work addresses gaps in undergraduate education, equipping students with accessible knowledge and confidence to communicate effectively with individuals with aphasia. Jodie’s research demonstrates the potential of open-access digital tools to enhance learning outcomes and improve experiences for people with aphasia.
Miss Yadanar Tut
Department Of Education
Bridging the Gap: Innovative Service Delivery Models for Remote School Settings
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Miss Amber Whitburn
Na
Assessment and management of swallowing and communication in patient’s with Head and Neck cancer requiring a tracheostomy: a scoping review
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Annelise Kyriakou
Peninsula Plus | University Of Queensland
An exploration of the addition of cervical auscultation and machine learning to paediatric feeding assessments
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Dr Katelyn Melvin
The University Of Queensland
‘Tailored Together’ Enabling Parents to drive Early Intervention in a supported transdisciplinary infant playgroup.
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Dr Katelyn Melvin is a Lecturer in Speech Pathology at The University of Queensland. In her clinical work, research, and teaching, Katelyn is committed to collaborating with families and communities to drive meaningful, long-term improvements in developmental outcomes for children. Her mixed-methods research focusses on engagement with families in services, health promotion and prevention, effective information provision by professionals, and working collaboratively with consumers to understand and improve health service environments.
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