Speech Pathology Australia Awards
6 July 2011
Speech Pathology Australia Awards
Three members of staff and one student from the Faculty of Health Sciences received awards from Speech Pathology Australia at the association's Annual General Meeting held at the end of June.
Associate Professor Leanne Togher received the highly prestigious Elinor Wray award for outstanding contribution to the profession through her evidence based practice and traumatic brain injuryresearch and her leadership.
The Elinor Wray Award was instituted in 1981 to honour Miss Elinor Wray who is regarded as the founder of the speech pathology profession in Australia and was the founder of the program which became the current undergraduate degree.
Dr Tricia McCabe and Dr Cate Madill, along with their honours student Anna McIlwaine received the 2010 editor's award from ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing (ACQ)(sponsored by the Australian Council for Educational Research) for their paper:McIlwaine, A., Madill, C., &McCabe, P. (2010). Voice Therapy Prepractice and the Principles of Motor Learning. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing 12 (1) 29-35.
This award is for the paper with the most clinical relevance, academic rigour and approachable writing in a given calendar year.