Doctor Susan Morrison School of Human, Health and Social Sciences

I arrived at CQU in January of 2013 to assist with the roll-out of the new Speech Pathology program.  For the past few years I have worked in Townsville, QLD at JCU as they began their new program.  I am originally from Boulder, Colorado in the United States.  I have worked a variety of jobs in tertiary education while continuing to see adults and children for speech therapy.

As a practicing speech pathologist, I have worked across the age range with people have a variety of communication and swallowing difficulties.  I especially like working with people having speaking difficulty that requires use of augmentative or alternative communication methods.

Because many of my clients have complex needs, I have worked with many inter-professional teams.  That is an area in which I have researched and taught as i believe good teams provide the best service for clients.

Member, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association

Member, Speech Pathology Australia

registered, Queensland Speech Pathology Board

 Sheepway, Lyndal, McCabe, Patricia, Farrington, Sally, Kenny, Belinda, Morrison, Susan, Brown, Louise, and Miller, Adrain (2011) Introducing the Byalawa Project resources: teaching health professional students how to communicate effectively with Indigenous people. at:ANAPHE, June 27-July 1, 2011, Alice Springs

McCabe, Tricia, Sheepway, Lyndal, Morrison, Susan, Miller, Adrian, Brown, Louise, Gerzina, Tania, Kenny, Belinda, Bandler, Lilon, Cass, Alan, Pont, Lisa, and Farrington, Sally (2010) Development of learning strategies and resources to teach health care students cross-cultural interviewing skills. Proceedings of ANZAME 2010 In: ANZAME 2010, 13 - 16 July 2010, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Morrison, Susan C. (2009) Interprofessional education- who needs it? We can work on a team! Papers from ANZAME 2009 Conference In: ANZAME 2009 Conference, 30 June - 3 July 2009, Launceston, TAS, Australia.

Morrison, Susan, Lincoln, Michelle, and Reed, Vicki (2004) Experienced speech pathologists’ views on working on teams. Proceedings from the World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics In: World Conference of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 29 August -2 September 2004, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

The Byalawa Project was an ALTC grant to provide materials to instructors about communicating with people of Aboriginal decent. The following web page with teaching videos and materials is available.

http://www.byalawa.com/

Morrison, Susan C., Lincoln, Michelle A., and Reed, Vicki A. (2011) How experience speech-language pathologists learned to work on teams. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13 (4). pp. 369-377. ISSN 1754-9515

Morrison, Susan C., Lincoln, Michelle A., and Reed, Vicki A. (2009) Teamwork: a study of Australian and US student speech-language pathologists. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 23 (3). pp. 251-261. ISSN 1469-9567

Morrison, Susan, and Lincoln, Michelle (2005) Working groups or teams. Does it matter? ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 7 (3). pp. 106-109. ISSN 1441-6727