I have been invited to present the Autumn Lecture for Advances in Communication and Swallowing based on our paper: Waiting list management: Professionals’ perspectives and innovations. Dr Nicole McGill is the first author of this paper, and worked with our team from Charles Sturt University to undertake a program of research about waiting lists. Our team includes: Dr Suzanne Hopf, Dr Kate Crowe, and Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang. I proposed that Nicole led the presentation and we summarised what we have learned about waiting lists from all of our research, focussing on the paper published Advances in Communication and Swallowing. What an exciting opportunity to share our work and potential strategies and solutions for managing speech and language therapy waiting lists.
The Spring Lecture for Advances in Communication and Swallowing was held in April with our Editorial Member, Prof Shaun O Keeffe (et al.) presenting their prize-winning paper on aspiration risk and risk feeding. Text about the spring lecture is on the journal page: https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/advances-in-communication-and-swallowing#extra and The video of the event is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSboOXREQ8k
The papers that have been written to describe this work are listed below. We also developed a website with colleagues from NSW Health: https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/speech-pathology/
- McGill, N., McLeod, S., & Hopf, S. C. (2021). Waiting list management: Professionals’ perspectives and innovations. Advances in Communication and Swallowing, 24, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.3233/ACS-210026
- McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 313–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1747541
- McGill, N., & McLeod, S. (2019). Aspirations for a website to support families’ active waiting for speech-language pathology. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(3), 263–274. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1604802
- McGill, N., & McLeod, S. (2020). Waiting list management in speech-language pathology: Translating research to practice. Speech, Language and Hearing, 23(1), 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2020.1716471
- McGill, N., McLeod, S., Crowe, K., Wang, C., & Hopf, S. C. (2021). Waiting lists and prioritization of children for services: Speech-language pathologists’ perspectives. Journal of Communication Disorders, 91, 106099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106099
- McGill, N., McLeod, S., Ivory, N., Davis, E., & Rohr, K. (2021). Randomised controlled trial evaluating active versus passive waiting for speech-language pathology. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 73(4), 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1159/000508830
- McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Roberts, A., Thornton, S., Ahio, N., & Ivory, N. (2020). Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 372–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1731600
