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Speech Pathology Week in Australia

Name: Speech Pathology Week in Australia
Start: 2023-08-21T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-08-21
Location: Australia

Speech Pathology Week in Australia is held on August 21. 2022, 21-27 August. Speech Pathology Week seeks to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with the more than 1.1 million Australians who have a communication or swallowing disorder that impacts on their daily life. This event in the third decade of the month August is annual.

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21 August - Speech Pathology Week in Australia

Speech Pathology Week seeks to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with the 1.2 million Australians who have a communication disability. The theme for Speech Pathology Week in 2022 is: Good communication, better communities.

If this is accurate, there are around 8,500 speech pathologists in Australia. Public speech pathology services are generally free though there may sometimes be a co-payment from the service and client. Private speech pathologists can determine their own fee schedule. Speech Pathology Australia does not have a recommended schedule of fees for speech pathologists.

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