Current Councillors
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Chris Stone - President
Chris is currently Chief Speech Pathology Advisor, Eastern Health and Manager Speech Pathology, Outer East, in Victoria. She has extensive experience over many years in rural and metropolitan health settings.
Chris was awarded Fellowship of Speech Pathology Australia in 2007 having demonstrated a significant contribution to the Association and profession including roles of:
- Vice President Communications, August 2004 – May 2005
- National Professional Standards Coordinator, May 2002 – August 2004
- Victorian Branch Rural and Remote Representative, January 2001 – May 2002
- Conference Planning Committee, Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, January 2000 – May 2001
Chris is currently a member of the Charles Sturt University Speech Pathology External Advisory Committee and Speech Pathology Australia Fellowship Committee; however she plans to take leave of absence from these roles while undertaking the National President term of office.
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Felicity Martin (ACT) - Vice President Communications
Felicity Martin graduated from Adelaide’s Flinders University in 1996. Since graduating, Felicity has had a broad range of professional experience. Most of this time has been spent in acute and rehabilitation settings in each of the Australian Capital Territory’s two major hospitals. For two years, Felicity also worked with adult and paediatric disability clients in regional NSW and the ACT. In 2005, Felicity had the opportunity to work with the ACT Health Department’s Access and Improvement Program driving a plan to improve the older person’s patient journey. A notable highlight from this period for Felicity was the establishment of a Medical Admissions Planning Unit at the Canberra Hospital. Perhaps as a natural extension of this work, Felicity went on to manage the ACT's Commonwealth Government funded Transition Care Program. More recently, Felicity has managed the Acute Speech Pathology Services at the Canberra Hospital taking on the Lead Professional role for good measure. Felicity’s primary goal over the next 3-5 years is to build on existing work to develop a centre of excellence in Speech Pathology in the Canberra and the surrounding region.This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Jennifer Moody (SA) - Vice President Operations
Jenny graduated from Sturt college of Advanced Education (now Flinders
University) in 1979. She worked in SA Department of Education before
taking a break to travel. She returned to the Education Department for a
short time before travelling to Cardiff in the UK to work for 12 months
in a special school for children with severe speech and language
difficulties. She returned to the Education department and in 1989 won a
position as Senior Speech Pathologist managing a team of speech
pathologists in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. Over the next few
years she had time in and out of the workforce to have children and in
2004 when the SA Department of Education and Children’s Services
restructured she took on the role of managing a team of service
providers which included speech pathologists, psychologists and teachers
with specialised skills in children with disabilities or hearing
impairments. When the Department restructured again in 2009 she added
Social Workers, Attendance councillors and teachers specialising in
behaviour management to her team. Jenny took on the challenge of
becoming the SA Councillor in 2008 after having various roles at branch
level including Scientific Affairs and Treasurer.
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Ros Neilson (NSW) - Member Networks
Ros Neilson was born in South Africa, immigrating to Australia as a teenager in the 1960s. She graduated with a B.A. Honours in Psychology and English from the University of Melbourne. She turned to Speech Pathology as a mature age student, completing a M.Sc. (Applied) in Human Communication Disorders at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. In 1977 she returned to Australia to work as a paediatric speech pathologist in Community Health. Two children later she completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Wollongong in 1999, completing a dissertation on phonological awareness and reading difficulties. From that research has evolved several self-published phonological awareness tests. Ros continues to combine her enjoyment of research with her clinical work and some University teaching. She lives in a beautiful rainforest area outside of Wollongong, NSW. As NSW Councillor, Ros is delighted to be taking a new, more active role in SPA, and she hopes that this opportunity will allow her to give back something to the Speech Pathology profession that has provided her with so much stimulation and pleasure.
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Robyn Stephen (Vic) - Practice Workplace & Government - Communication
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Gaenor Dixon (Qld) - Practice Workplace & Government - Operations
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Meg Ledger (WA) - Professional Standards.
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Robin Wilson (Tas) - Public Affairs
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Penny Mogg (NT) - Scientific Affairs & Continuing Professional Development.
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