NZSTA members alongside the NZSTA Board and Expert Advisers regularly advocate for people with communication and swallowing difficulties internationally and at a national level.
Submissions include:
- 2020 Submission on the Education and Training Bill
- 2019 Health and Disability Services Standards Review
- 2019 System Health Quality & Safety Commission (HQSC) and Nutrition Technical Advisory Group submissions regarding IDDSI implementation at national policy level
- 2018 Ministry of Education Draft Action Plan
- 2018 Public Consultation on Telecommunications Relay Service
- 2018 RACP Consultation on AFRM Draft Policy Paper: Rehabilitation medicine physicians delivering integrated care in the community for stroke
- 2018 Bakels New Zealand – Colset starch thickener
- 2018 Ministry Briefing Communication Access – Meeting with Hon Carmel Sepuloni Minister of Disability
- 2018 ESD for stroke public Consultation on Telecommunications Relay Services
- 2017 Medicine physicians delivering integrated care in the community
- 2017 Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Bill
- 2017 Clinical Network for Paediatric Tube Feeding “Readiness Tool” for use in infants and children who are being tube fed”
- 2016 A good start in life: Develop policy options to improve government supports for parents, family and whānau of disabled children aged 0-6 years
- 2016 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Action Plan
- 2015 Captioning in New Zealand
- 2015 Parliamentary Inquiry into the identification and support for students with the significant challenges of dyslexia, dyspraxia, and autism spectrum disorders in primary and secondary schools
- 2013 National Health Committee position on Ventilation tubes for the treatment of otitis media
- 2012 Green Paper for Vulnerable Children
- 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019 Pharmac funding for thickeners
- 2010 Health Passports
- 2010 Department of Labour Essential Skills in Demand List
- 2008 Changes to the IPRC Act – ACC Regs Consult