Emeritus ProfessorSusan Balandin
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
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- Emeritus ProfessorFaculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Professor Balandin's teaching has centred on the role of communication in
facilitating community participation with a particular focus on augmentative
and alternative communication (AAC).
She developed and coordinated a Masters program in developmental disability at
the University of Sydney and currently lectures both nationally and
internationally on AAC, participation, and ageing with lifelong disability.
She is an adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University and Sydney University
and a docent at the University of Helsinki.
She is the immediate past editor of the Journal of Intellectual &
Developmental Disability, is a member of several international editorial
boards and is on a number of grant review panels, including the ARC as an
international expert and FWO in Belgium.
facilitating community participation with a particular focus on augmentative
and alternative communication (AAC).
She developed and coordinated a Masters program in developmental disability at
the University of Sydney and currently lectures both nationally and
internationally on AAC, participation, and ageing with lifelong disability.
She is an adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University and Sydney University
and a docent at the University of Helsinki.
She is the immediate past editor of the Journal of Intellectual &
Developmental Disability, is a member of several international editorial
boards and is on a number of grant review panels, including the ARC as an
international expert and FWO in Belgium.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSocial exclusion by retailers of adults with complex communication needs
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPathways to Electronic Gambling Machine Venues in New South Wales
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAustralian women's lived experience of gambling: A critical qualitative inquiry