Elks and Royal Purple of Canada Student Forum

CASLPA is pleased to announce a new relationship with the Elks and Royal Purple of Canada who are sponsoring the Student Forum on the CASLPA website. This chat room is a place where students can go to ask questions, post their thoughts on curricula, clinical placements or other topics, interact with one another, share tips on studying and even seek career or other advice from professionals who will monitor the forum. Click here to jump directly to the CASLPA chat room. The forum will be monitored by mentors, Tamara Pelletier, S-LP, Deborah Kully, S-LP, Lynne Brewster, Aud., who are all CASLPA members and also involved with the Elks and Royal Purple. The Elks, founded in 1912 and incorporated under a special Dominion of Canada Charter, is the largest, all-Canadian, fraternal organization in Canada with more than 300 lodges and 20,000 members. Over the years the Elks and Royal Purple Fund For Children has provided more than $15 million in funding in the areas of speech, hearing and communication disorders. The fund supports literacy, stuttering and auditory rehabilitation programs, family hearing resource centres, cochlear implant programs, camps for deaf children and many other initiatives. The Elks also sponsor scholarship awards for students in Canadian communication disorders programs and will now be paying the CASLPA student membership fees for these individuals. Learn more about the Elks and Royal Purple

Mentor Bios

Lynne Brewster
Lynne Brewster is the Program Head of the Saskatchewan Pediatric Auditory Rehabilitation Centre, a program for hearing impaired children and their families. She is an Audiologist and a Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist. Lynne obtained her Bachelors Degree in Psychology and her Teaching Certificate from the University of Saskatchewan, her Master of Science in Audiology from Minot State College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Nottingham, England. Lynne is a member of the Saskatchewan Cochlear Implant team. She has served on a number of national taskforces and expert groups related to the field of pediatric aural rehabilitation. She has presented papers at AG Bell International, Auditory Verbal International and Cochlear Implant Symposia in Canada, Europe and the United States. She is currently the co-chair of a committee writing a position paper on cochlear implants for children in Canada for the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.

 

Deborah Kully
Deborah Kully, M.S., R.SLP, S-LP(C), CCC-SLP, is co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR) and associate professor in the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta. Over the past 25 years she has worked with hundreds of people who stutter of all ages, and with the late Dr. Einer Boberg, developed the Comprehensive Stuttering Program. She has co-authored several articles, chapters and a book on stuttering, given many presentations, workshops and courses in North America and abroad, and been a featured or keynote speaker at state, provincial and national conferences in Canada, the United States, England and Australia. She has received several awards in recognition of her contributions to the discipline and the community, including a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in health, science and technology and a University of Alberta Alumni Honor Award.

 

Tamara Pelletier
Tamara received a Bachelor of Science in Linguistics granted from the University of Victoria in 2004. She continued her studies and completed a Master of Science degree in Speech Language Pathology at the University of British Columbia in 2006. She is CASLPA certified. She works at the BC Family Hearing Resource program: a provincial resource program serving children aged 0-5 who have hearing loss, living in British Columbia. Tamara carries a caseload of local families, provides outreach services, is involved in training other professionals, assists with some research projects at BC Family Hearing and sits on the Intervention Advisory Group for the BC Early Hearing Programme.