Enhancing clinical and casework conversations with young people in Out of Home Care using Talking Mats

Tracks
10-minute presentations
Adolescent
Advocacy
Innovative practice
Interprofessional collaborative practice
Language disorder (e.g. LD associated with...)
Mental health
School age
Thursday, June 25, 2026
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Knowledge Hub | Central Room B, Ground Floor

Overview

Rosie Russell and Elisha Amos

Details

⏫ Rapid oral presentation
⏲️ 11:45–11:55 am
⌛ 10-minutes
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)

Presenter

Ms Elisha Amos
Department of Communities and Justice

Enhancing clinical and casework conversations with young people in Out of Home Care using Talking Mats

11:45 AM - 11:55 AM

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Mrs Rosie Russell
Elver Program, Department Of Communities And Justice

Enhancing clinical and casework conversations with young people in Out of Home Care using Talking Mats

11:45 AM - 11:55 AM

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Rosie is Team Leader of the Elver Program, a specialist, multidisciplinary trauma-treatment team for children and young people in statutory out of home care in New South Wales. Rosie aims to support professional networks to better understand the developmental abilities and needs of the young people they care for. With additional qualifications in Applied Mental Health, Rosie has a particular interest in the relationship between early childhood experiences and the development of language, social and feeding skills. Rosie is passionate about knowledge sharing and clinical education both within Speech Pathology and within broader professional networks. She has facilitated workshops for speech pathologists, allied health professionals, and child protection and caseworker professionals, and delivered lectures and clinical education at the University of Sydney. Rosie has co-authored two papers on the application of the principles of motor learning to voice therapy.

Session chair

Libby Cardell
Unisq

Student volunteer(s)

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Alice Emmerton

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Catherine Mary Gatling

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