June 17, 2025

RHRI Symposium

The RHRI Symposium was held 17-18  June in Orange to celebrate  the research funded by a grant to the Charles Sturt University Rural Health Research Institute from the Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Health (Grant Activity 4-DGEJZ1O/4-CW7UT14).

We presented (virtually) two papers based on the successful outcomes of Project 8: – Improving access to speech pathology services for rural children with speech, language and communication needs 

  • Improving access to speech pathology services for rural Indigenous children (Sharynne McLeod, Emily-Jane Woodhead, Sarah Bartlett, Christie Cain, Jamie Newman, & Carolyn Gregoric)
  • Assessing multilingual children in languages not spoken by the clinician: Using an implementation science approach to enhance rural speech pathology services (Kate Margetson & Sharynne  McLeod)


Our research was so productive - in terms of the impact on our learning, communities' support for children's speech, language and communication, and academic outcomes.