Embedding health literacy into speech pathology practice: Reducing barriers and promoting access to understandable information for equitable outcomes

Tracks
60-minute presentations
Assessment
Collaboration
Disability
Multidisciplinary practice
NDIS
Professional practice
Quality improvement
Service delivery
Friday, June 26, 2026
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Room 5 & 6, First Floor

Overview

Harmony Turnbull


Details

⏫ Skill-building session
⏲️ 1:30–2:30 pm
⌛ 60-minutes
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)


Presenter

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Ms Harmony Turnbull
Department For Education, Children And Young People

Embedding health literacy into speech pathology practice: Reducing barriers and promoting access to understandable information for equitable outcomes

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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Harmony is a speech pathologist with longstanding experience supporting people across the lifespan with lifelong disability, communication disability, and/or dysphagia. She has many years of industry experience as a senior clinician in government and non-government sectors as well as The University of Sydney, The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and The University of Tasmania. Harmony is pursuing her PhD at UTS exploring the accessibility of written health information for people with communication disability. She has a strong person-centred and rights-based approach to her work.

Session chair

Jaimee Dutton


Student volunteer(s)

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Tyler Barrington-Rowe
Griffith University - Gold Coast (student)

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Jade Kinnear
Griffith University Student

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