by Rosie Martin | Aug 23, 2022 | Blog, Speech Pathology
More than 40 years ago I began a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology. A few years before this, in 1975, the profession had been renamed ‘Speech Pathology’, from ‘Speech Therapy’. Speech therapists of that era, forerunners and groundbreakers, had identified...
by Rosie Martin | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
I did a year of a general science degree before I studied speech pathology. In the unit on botany, we covered basidiomycetes (aka fungi). I learned that ‘mycelium’ is part of mushroom and toadstool anatomy. It’s a fine structure like a mass of threads that spreads out...
by Rosie Martin | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
There has never been a time in history in which we have had both the tools of instruction relevant to all learners together with the social will to bring 100% literacy to all learners. Talking about this possibility and potential with excitement and hope is the...
by Rosie Martin | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
The five-year-old who lives at my house came bowling up the hill at me clutching one of his eight-week-old chickens. “Grand!” he shouted (he calls me ‘Grand’). “This is Charlie. She’s the most imperious of our chickens.” Delighted with this unexpected and rather...
by Rosie Martin | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
There has never been a time in Australia’s history at which everybody could read and write. Think about it. Before the 20th Century wars, universal education was haphazard. It was the domain primarily of the privileged. Things continued that way during the 1940s and...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, Speech Pathology
Michael Leunig is a national treasure. A few strokes of his uniquely wielded brush, some spare and scruffy words… and suddenly a gentle ‘hey presto’ appears out of nowhere and opens us to depths of our yearning and heights of our hope. I was recently struck with...