Announcing PROFESSOR Sarah Verdon
Congratulations to Sarah for her outstanding achievement in earning the title of PROFESSOR!!!
Asia Pacific Society of Speech Language and Hearing Conference, 2025, Bangkok Thailand
On the 12-14th of December, Sarah and Lucia attended the APSSLH 2025 Conference, Bangkok Thailand. The theme of the conference was “Advancing Speech, Language, and Hearing Health Across Diverse Cultures”.
We shared two presentations;
‘Undestanding and supporting neurodivergence’ presented by Professor Sarah Verdon
‘Providing services to clients with cleft lip and or palate from a lived experience perspective’ presented by Ms. Lucia Flint (CPSP)
Podcast interview with Jenny Nechvatal; ‘Embracing Disability in Early Childhood Settings’
In this episode we welcome special guest Jenny Nechvatal to the show.
Jenny is an early childhood educator, disability inclusion advocate and mother who draws upon her lived experiences to provide support and advice for both educators and parents.
Jenny has a particular interest in Autism and collaboration between parents and educators to support early identification and early intervention.
You can learn more about Jenny’s work here: https://innovativedisabilitysolutions.com.au/
You can buy Jenny’s book here: https://innovativedisabilitysolutions.com.au/store/p/embracing-disability-in-early-childhood
You can book a workshop with Jenny here: https://innovativedisabilitysolutions.com.au/workshops
Parents of neurodivergent children can join her parenting hub here: https://innovativedisabilitysolutions.com.au/neuro-spicy-parent-hub
Hume Region Allied Health Conference 2025
The conference theme was ‘Insights into Influence: The Impact of Allied Health in Healthcare’.
The presentation was on the topic of; “Neurodiversity affirming practice in allied health”.
Attached below are the slides:
Little Learners Love Literacy Course
Emma and Lucia recently completed the ‘Little Learners Love Literacy’ professional development. Little Learners Love Literacy is a systematic synthetic phonics intervention program to best support clients with all things reading, writing and spelling.
Speech Pathology Australia Conference 2025
Sarah and Lucia presented on the topic; Neurodiversity affirming practice:
The next frontier in culturally responsive practice?
Attached below are our slides:
International Society of Autism Research: INSAR
Sarah and Lucia are very excited to be attending the International Society of Autism Research (INSAR) Conference in Melbourne, from the 15th -18th
of May! We are looking forward to sharing our learning.
https://www.autism-insar.org/page/2024AnnMtg
Sharing Best Practice
Sarah and Lucia recently attended the Sharing Best Practice conference in Wagga Wagga all about supporting children to read, write and spell.
https://www.sharingbestpractice.com/
Tedx Talk
View my Tedx Talk: “Challenging our disordered thinking about Neurodiversity” from November 2023 here: https://youtu.be/zxOFXiwmpsE?si=2ZPE2c5fV1nkGpSI
Asia Pacific Society of Speech-Language and Hearing, HCMC Vietnam
Lucia and I attending the APSSLH conference in Vietnam.
We shared two presentations:
Talking Children: Early intervention and access to services for children with communication needs.
Neurodiversity affirming practice: Building a stronger network between SLPs and the neurodiverse community.
View our poster here:
IALP Conference, Auckland New Zealand
In August 2023, I presented on two topics at the World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
The talks were titled:
Social justice in action in speech-language pathology: Exploring sustainable and culturally responsive international development through the first university degrees in Vietnam
and
A qualitative systematic review of
speech-language pathologists’ practice with people from humanitarian migrant backgrounds
I attended with my baby Ruby (sleeping soundly after a big day).
Speech Pathology Week 2023
Here is an opinion piece I wrote for Speech Pathology Week
New Book Chapter
My book chapter “A longitudinal exploration of the presence of a bilingual advantage in children” was recently published in this new book.
Professor Sarah Verdon - Speech-Language Pathologist 