National Tour 2010 by Assoc Prof Cori Williams

We are thrilled to announce that online registrations are now open for the first workshop of the 2010 National Tour!

Cori Williams, B App Sci (Speech and Hearing), BA (AS) (Hons), Dip Ed, Ph D, presenting in the area of “Working with Children from Multilingual Backgrounds”

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio is thrilled to announce to members that
Dr Cori Williams has accepted the Association’s invitation to be the 2010 National Tour speaker in Speech Pathology Australia’s CPD program.

We are very fortunate and privileged to have Cori presenting in the area of “Working with Children from Multilingual Backgrounds” as this area is very relevant in an increasingly multicultural Australia, with speech pathologists needing to bring to their workplace an understanding of the complex issues when working with children exposed to more than one language.

Dr Cori Williams of the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, has worked as a teacher, university lecturer and speech pathologist. Cori has a long-standing interest in cross cultural issues in language. As part of her honours degree in Linguistics at the Australian National University, Cori wrote a grammar of Yuwaalaraay, an Aboriginal dialect spoken in north-west New South Wales. She completed her PhD “An’tha’s all”. A study of news told by urban Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in 2002.

The National Tour will incorporate a one-day workshop in a number of Branches covering assessment and intervention when working with children from multilingual backgrounds, plus a 2-hour national videoconference on working with children from Indigenous populations.

Stay tuned for further details as they become available!

We look forward to seeing you at the 2010 National Tour workshops.

Register now for the Victoria National Tour Workshop on  Friday 23 July 2010

Register now for the Canberra National Tour Workshop on Tuesday 27 April 2010

Register now for the Launceston National Tour workshop on Friday 23 April 2010.

From all involved in National CPD - our very sincere thanks to our wonderful National Tour speakers and to all the participants who attend the workshops.
  
Click  here to view a list of National Tour speakers from 2004 - 2009