NZSTA members alongside the NZSTA Board and Expert Advisers regularly advocate for people with communication and swallowing difficulties internationally and at a national level.
Recent Parliamentary Submissions include:
- 2018 Ministry of Education Draft Action Plan
- Public Consultation on Telecommunications Relay Service
- A Tamariki
- System Health Quality & Safety Commission (HQSC) and Nutrition Technical Advisory Group submissions regarding IDDSI implementation at national policy level
- 2017 Have Your Say – Strengthening independent oversight of the Oranga Tamariki System of children’s issues in NZ: a consultation document
- Medicine physicians delivering integrated care in the community
- ESD for stroke ubli Consultation on Telecommunications Relay Services Public Consultation on Telecommunications Relay Services
- 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
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Action Plan
- Captioning in New Zealand
- 2017 Clinical Network for Paediatric Tube Feeding “Readiness Tool” for use in infants and children who are being tube fed”
- RACP Consultation on AFRM Draft Policy Paper: Rehabilitation medicine physicians delivering integrated care in the community for stroke
- 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