Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:?

• Describe what ‘inclusive healthcare’ means.
• Identify top tips for creating inclusive healthcare for acute hospital, rehabilitation, and residential aged care facilities.
• List resources for speech pathologists to help create inclusive accessible healthcare for people with communication disabilities.

Registrants must be speech pathologists.

Speech pathology students who have undertaken relevant lectures/coursework/clinical placements are welcome to attend.

This workshop is suitable for anyone with an interest in accessible and inclusive healthcare services.

Associate Professor Robyn O'Halloran

Associate Professor Robyn O’Halloran is the Program Lead of the NHMRC CRE Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation 'Aphasia Access and Inclusion' Program based at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She works with clinicians, managers, people with lived experience and other researchers to improve the health equity of people with communication disability by creating more accessible and inclusive healthcare services. She developed the IFCI:SAI (Inpatient Functional Communication Interview: Screening Assessment and Intervention), which is a set of resources for speech pathologists and other health professionals to support hospital patients with communication disability communicate and participate in their healthcare. Robyn was a member of Speech Pathology Australia’s Communication Access Alliance and contributed to SPA’s Communication Access and Inclusion Terminology Report. She is currently working with Alfred Health, in Melbourne on the SPEAK project, which is a program of work to promote inclusive, accessible healthcare for autistic people, people with intellectual disability or other communication disabilities. She has published two books, four book chapters and over 60 papers in international, peer reviewed journals. Her research has contributed to the 2022 World Health Organisation Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities.

Pricing details: 

• Members: $49
• Non-Members: $74