SAC Atlantic

SAC Atlantic

SAC is establishing an Atlantic Advisory Group to strengthen and coordinate advocacy efforts across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The group will bring together SAC members from across the region to help identify and advance advocacy priorities affecting communication health in Atlantic Canada. Working in collaboration with SAC’s national advocacy team, the group will support efforts to strengthen the voice of speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and communication health assistants and improve access to communication health services across the Atlantic Provinces.

Advocacy Priorities

As the national association representing communication health professionals, Speech-Language & Audiology Canada is committed to highlighting the professions and to raising the profile of communications health in Canada.

Recruitment and Retention

Recruitment and Retention

SAC will raise awareness of the unique challenges faced by speech-language pathologists and audiologists to ensure provincial recruitment and retention strategies for health professionals include our professions. This includes supporting clinicians who take students on clinical placements.
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Enhanced Access and Funding

Enhanced Access and Funding

SAC will work with government and corporate decisionmakers to demonstrate how speech-language pathology and audiology services and professionals help the people of Saskatchewan engage, learn, be active in their communities, and age safely and with dignity by allowing professionals to operate to their full scope of practice.
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Equitable Access

Equitable Access

Increased services to Indigenous communities are crucial for ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare and private services. SAC will engage with relevant decision-makers to advocate for the role of speech-language pathologists and audiologists to support rural, remote, and Indigenous communities.

Scope of Practice Awareness

Scope of Practice Awareness

Inadequate understanding of the speech-language pathologists and audiologists can lead to undervaluation and underutilization of our services, limiting delivery and accessibility. SAC will work to raise awareness of the full scope of practice of our professions among the public, interdisciplinary partners, and provincial government officials, ensuring appropriate support and funding for their critical contributions to the healthcare system.
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Upcoming Events

Jennifer Cameron-Turley, Provincial Advocacy Manager, is a member of and supported by the Saskatchewan​ Regional Advisory Committee.

The committee is your connection to issues in province and your dedicated group or representatives to support our work.

Jadie Allen
Samantha Houston
Katie Schlosser
Jodi Haberstock
Laureen McIntyre
Randa Tomczak

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