AGOSCI 2025

8:50 am - 9:00 am - 14 March 2025

Welcome

Session - Plenary - Hall C

8:50 am

AGOSCI - Welcome Darryl Sellwood, AGOSCI Chairperson

Darryl Sellwood

9:00 am - 10:00 am - 14 March 2025

Keynote Address

Session - Plenary - Hall C

9:00 am

Words worth sharing

Jordyn Zimmerman

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 14 March 2025

Morning Tea

Session - Break - Foyer E - Exhibition

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 14 March 2025

AAC in Numbers

Session - Innovate - Gilbert Suite

10:30 am

Similar students, different AAC outcomes: What explains Australia’s magic?

Erin Sheldon , David Niemeijer

11:30 am

Measuring AAC User Linguistic Competence: A Novel Approach

Erin Sheldon , David Niemeijer

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 14 March 2025

Innovate & Include

Session - Include, Innovate - Room E2

10:30 am

It takes a village: identifying and providing essential telepractice strategies for quality AAC intervention for people with complex physical disabilities outside major metropolitan centres

Cassie Doyle, Kimberley Quan

11:10 am

AAC from Afar: Improving Telehealth Trials

Emily Churchill, Lilla O'Keeffe, Meg Haynes

11:30 am

Innovating to interact and include - Evaluating a multidisciplinary, multi-modal training approach for AAC Teams in regional Australia

Helen Dimond, Tammie Cunningham

11:50 am

Bridging the Gap: Empowering Remote Communities with AAC Access in Cape York and the Torres Strait

Lilla O'Keeffe, Maria Hill

12:10 pm

Indigenous data sovereignty and governance: Considerations for AAC practice with Yolŋu families

Rebecca Amery, Julie Gungunbuy Wunungmurra

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 14 March 2025

Innovate, Include & Interact

Session - Include, Innovate, Interact - Hall C

10:30 am

Counselling with AAC users: learning from practice

Johanna Schmidt

10:50 am

Communication is the tip of the iceberg: Overcoming hidden barriers to realise inclusive mental health care for people with communication access needs.

Eleanor Watson

11:10 am

Grumpy Old (AAC) Woman

Meredith Allan

11:30 am

Emotion Work and People with Communication Disabilities

Margie CHARLESWORTH

11:50 am

The Link Between Inclusion and Advocacy for a World that Aims to Give Agency and Participation

Ben Keely, Kelly Savage

12:10 pm

Finding their voices. Learning from those who were considered too disabled to talk.

Tracey Campbell

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 14 March 2025

Innovate, Interact & Include

Session - Include, Innovate, Interact - Room E3

10:30 am

Building Employer Confidence to recruit and retain employees with communication disability and low literacy.

Katie Lyon, Jacob Matthew

10:50 am

Communicate and Connect: Capacity building in residential services

Bronwen Jones

11:10 am

Play and Chat: Creating Communication Accessible Parks and Play Spaces

Sarita Slater

11:30 am

Communication for NOW to support communication in the future: Exploring and promoting shared meaning in interactions between adults with severe and profound intellectual disability and their partners

Sheridan Forster, Meredith Prain

11:50 am

'Walling' A way to grow AAC Culture and AAC skills in communities

Jenny Barnes

12:10 pm

Be Safe Online: Resourcing young people with communication disability, cognitive impairment, and low literacy levels

Katie Lyon

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 14 March 2025

Lunch

Session - Break - Foyer E - Exhibition

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 14 March 2025

Panel: "It's my voice": The ethics of prescribing and changing AAC systems

Session - Innovate, Interact - Hall C

12:30 pm

Panel: "It's my voice": The ethics of prescribing and changing AAC systems

Kathy Look Howery, Gayle Porter

1:30 pm - 2:50 pm - 14 March 2025

AAC in Schools

Session - Innovate - Gilbert Suite

1:30 pm

Coaching for Confident Classrooms: Unlocking the Magic of AAC

Amanda Hartmann, Shannon Braithwaite

1:30 pm - 2:50 pm - 14 March 2025

AGM and AGOSCI Awards

Session - Social Function - Hall C

1:30 pm

AGM and AGOSCI Awards

1:30 pm - 2:50 pm - 14 March 2025

Poster Presentations

Session - Poster Presentations - Foyer E - Exhibition

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2:50 pm - 3:10 pm - 14 March 2025

Afternoon Tea

Session - Break - Foyer E - Exhibition

3:10 pm - 4:50 pm - 14 March 2025

AAC in Schools

Session - Innovate - Gilbert Suite

3:10 pm

AAC as a Tool for Feelings, Regulation and Problem Solving

Amanda Hartmann

4:10 pm

AAC vs Visual Tools: Let’s compare strategies and focus on connection

Amanda Hartmann, Shannon Braithwaite

3:10 pm - 4:50 pm - 14 March 2025

Include & Innovate

Session - Include, Innovate - Room E1

3:10 pm

Warringa Park School: Comprehensive Literacy Instruction and AAC Integration

Madeline Slatkin, Roisin Dalton

3:30 pm

Visionary Leadership, Innovative Practices: A Three-Year Journey of Transforming Communication Accessibility at St. Patrick's Special School

Cathy Sires

3:50 pm

CAS or Can't? Building a Communication Accessible School.

April Beaton

4:10 pm

From process to progress: The real goal of writing goals.

Janelle Sampson

4:30 pm

Discovery of Communication Access at Victorian Library Services – Understanding facilitators, barriers and gaps through a staged approach

Sarita Slater

3:10 pm - 4:50 pm - 14 March 2025

Innovate & Include

Session - Include, Innovate - Room E2

3:10 pm

AAC research in Australia: Strengths, challenges, and future directions

Abirami Thirumanickam, Darryl Sellwood, Eleanor Watson, Emma GRACE, Pammi Raghavendra, Rebecca Amery

4:30 pm

Key Word Sign and Gesture - An inclusive strategy for promoting language and learning through embodied action

Leigha Dark

3:10 pm - 4:50 pm - 14 March 2025

Interact & Innovate

Session - Innovate, Interact - Room E3

3:10 pm

Empowering Communication: Eye Gaze and Head Tracking Technologies

Jo Beech, Jessica Murphy

3:30 pm

Advancing Communication Through the Eye Gaze Learning Workbook: Clinical Insights and Innovations

Stacey Fisher

3:50 pm

Minspeak in Action: Tools for Spontaneous Interaction

Delara Kapadia, Elissa Kearns, Siobhan Daley

4:10 pm

Harnessing Data for Enhanced AAC Outcomes: A Realize Language Workshop

Freya Allen, Leah Cardwell, Delara Kapadia

4:30 pm

There’s More to Touch than Meets the Eye: Optimizing Touch Access for AAC Users

Jessica Kennedy

3:10 pm - 4:50 pm - 14 March 2025

Interact & Innovate

Session - Innovate, Interact - Hall C

3:10 pm

Supporting Emergent Communicators: More than Aided AAC Modeling

Jane Farrall, Helen Tainsh

4:30 pm

The Diary of a Workshop Presenter: building capacity for communication partners

Kate Munro

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm - 14 March 2025

Conference Dinner

Session - Social Function - Hall F

Program

Sponsorship & Exhibition

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