Options Communication Therapy & Training Centre Pty Ltd

Employment background

2019
Private practice
2017
Private practice. Adjunct research fellow, The Hopkins Centre, Griffith University.
2011- 2016
PhD candidate. Griffith University Adjunct Research Fellow.
2009 – 2011
Course designer for 3 ASQA accredited courses in Complex Communication Needs
1998-2009
Private Practice.
1992 -1998
Advisor, Department of Communities, Child Safety & Community Care, Brisbane.
1986 -1992
Professional Development Co-Ordinator, Speech Pathology Association Australia + Senior Therapist Anne McDonald Centre, Melbourne.
1984 -1986
Speech Therapist Honiara, Solomon Islands/ Visa Officer For British Embassy/ Private Practice Port Hedland, WA.
1979 – 1984
Head of Department Queensland Cerebral Palsy League.
1978 - 1979
Senior Therapist UK Health Authority
1976 – 1979
Speech Therapist Saint John General Hospital, Canada.

2020
Clinical Therapy Dog Handlers Course.
2011 – 2016
PhD. Health Faculty, Griffith University, Queensland, Aus.
1992 + 2007
Cert IV - Training & Assessment, Brisbane, Australia.
1986-1992
Master’s Degree Applied Linguistics, University Melbourne, Australia.
1978 – Present
Specialist training in non-speech communication and Motor Speech Disorders including: Instructor /Advanced level Training in Makaton (Key word Signing), Blissymbols, Facilitated Communication Training, Amer-Ind (American Indian Gestural Code), & PROMPT (PROMPTs for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets). Government workshop training in topics such as communicating in plain English, Policy development, grant writing, writing for publication and the use of Information Technology.

1991
ISAAC (International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication) Scholarship award.
2014
Three Minute Thesis, Winner Higher Degree by Research Category, Griffith University
Three Minute Thesis, People’s Choice Winner Higher Degree by Research Category, Griffith Uni.
Continuing Student Scholarship, Griffith University.
2013
Three Minute Thesis, Winner Higher Degree by Research Category, Griffith Uni.
2009
Master Trainer FCT, Syracuse University, New York, USA.
2003
Valued staff member of the Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland 2003.

2018
Australian Group On Severe Communication Impairment. International Congress. Gold Coast 2018. Two poster sessions.
Webinar. Strategies used by communication partners. Invited presenter for AGOSCI.
2016
International Association Scientific Study Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,
1. Paper: "Conversation Strategies & Systems Analysis: A tool to identify hot spots in conversations where augmentative and alternative communication is used".
2. Poster: “Conversations using Augmentative & Alternative Communication: More than just ‘talk’”.
3. Poster: “Conversation strategies & systems analysis: A tool to identifying hot spots with people who have Down Syndrome”.
2015
World Congress Neurology and Epidemiology.
1. Paper: ‘Eye Blinks to iPad’.
2. Guided Poster: Transcription Analysis in AAC.
Australian Group on Severe Communication Impairment,
1. Paper: Augmentative and Alternative Conversations
2. Poster: Transcription Notation in AAC .
2011
Australian Group on Severe Communication Impairment.
Paper: Best Practice or No Practice
Autism Behavioural Intervention Conference.
Paper: Best Practice or No Practice
1996
International Society for Augmentative & Alternative Communication (ISAAC),
Invited Speaker Research Symposium Paper-Presentation, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

2015
AAC workshop contribution to a Griffith University, Human Services and Social Work research project
2009
Augmentative Communication Workshops. Syracuse University, New York.
2007-2008
Training for National Relay Service Operators, Brisbane.
2000 – 2012
Guest lecturer, customised workshop and lesson delivery to government and non-government disability sector in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. Topics included: communication strategies, key word signing, social and emotional wellbeing, use of visual strategies, music for language and learning (joint presentation with music therapist), designing communication displays and speech-language development.

2020
Remington-Gurney, J. (May 2020), Course 1. Setting the Scene. Online course in package: Training to be a Communication Partner for Someone with Communication Impairment. https://drjaneremingtongurney.podia.com/
2018
Remington-Gurney, J. Communication assistants in Queensland: A survey of their engagement in conversations without speech. InFocus. 43(1), p.10-14.
2013
Remington-Gurney, J. Scaffolding conversations using AAC. Journal of Social Inclusion. 4(1), 45-9
2010
Remington-Gurney, J. Designer of three articulating courses accredited by Australian Skills Quality Authority.
- • Course in Augmentative and alternative communication-30973Qld
- • Certificate IV in Complex communication needs- 30974Qld
- • Diploma Of Complex communication needs – 30975Qld
Remington-Gurney, J. & Craner, R. Music & Augmentative and Alternative Communication Therapy. AGOSCI In Focus. 30 (1), 16-18.
2006
Remington-Gurney, J. Measurable Outcomes: Treatment of people with severe communication impairments. Australian Communication Quarterly, 8(3), 140-144.
1992
Crossley, R., & Remington-Gurney J., Getting the Words Out. Topics In Language Disorders, 12(4), 29-46.
1991
Remington-Gurney, J. The significance of the verbal story line for encoding and decoding television news. Melbourne Papers in Applied Linguistics, 3, (1)41-53.

2010
Craner, R., & Remington-Gurney, J. (2010) Songs to Learn By. Published by Music for Growth. www.musicforgrowth.com.au
2009
Remington-Gurney, J. A Slice of My Life – Personal Introduction to Augmentative and Alternative Communication. January 2009. Self-published. ISBN 978 0 646 50480 Peer review by Speech Pathology Australia by Kirsten Tranter, Gill Greenwood, and Caterina Thompson.
2006
Rett Syndrome Research. Chapter in ‘It Takes Two Girls’. 2006. Resource for Rett syndrome fundraising. www.silent-angels.org.au

1991
Three articulated DCD educational resources (FCT Introduction, Working with Pre-Schoolers, Towards Independence), created with the Dept of Communities, Brisbane.
1984
Cerebral Palsy League. Script and editing of video educational resource entitled: ‘Everybody has to eat’. A resource for people assisting children with cerebral palsy to experience safe mealtimes.

Speech Pathology Association of Australia (SPAA) Australian Group On Severe Communication Impairment

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