Speaking my languages: Health Research and Innovation Award from NSW Health (Western NSW LHD)

October 9, 2020

Health Research and Innovation Award from NSW Health (Western NSW LHD)

Today Emily Davis learned that we were awarded the Health Research and Innovation Award from NSW Health - Western NSW Local Health District for our research "Waiting for Speech Pathology: Advice vs Device". Congratulations to the official team on the grant: Emily Davis (Bathurst), Sharynne McLeod (CSU), Katrina Rohr (Bathurst), Angela Roberts (Bathurst), Nicole McGill (CSU), and Katherine Miller (Dubbo) and the rest of the team Sally Thornton (Dubbo), Nina Aiho (Dubbo), Nicola Ivory (CSU), Cen(Audrey) Wang (CSU), Chris Ferrito (Bathurst), and Louise McMurtrie (Bathurst).

Katrina and Emily accepted the award in Orange at the 2020 WNSWLHD Living Quality & Safety Awards.

Here is the citation:

Waiting for Speech Pathology: Advice or Device brought together a collaboration of speech pathologists from Bathurst and Dubbo, and Charles Sturt University to provide web content of free, evidence-based resources to support families during the time they were waiting for access to face-to-face speech pathology for their child. Since becoming available, the web content has been accessed more than 14,500 times.

The nomination included the following information "the website has been accessed 14,419 times across 90 countries/regions. The website has been widely viewed during the COVID pandemic, with almost half of website hits from NSW occurring from March – June 2020 (4669 of 9542 hits).”