CRiCS Summer School, Bathurst, Dec 2009

I was invited to close the Centre for Research in Complex Systems biennial summer school with a 1 hour presentation titled "Speech sounds around the world". The audience spoke many languages including French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Cantonese, Putonghua, and Bengali so they provided many examples and were enthusiastic participants.

The CRiCS December newsletter recorded: "The summer school concluded with a dynamic, interactive presentation from Sharynne McLeod on speech sounds around the world."

LSAC Research Conference, Melbourne, Dec 2009

The 2nd Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Research Conference was held in Melbourne in December, 2009. My colleagues, Linda Harrison and Jane McCormack presented papers based on our ARC Discovery Project (2007-2009). The methods and findings from the Disovery Project are foundational for the ARC Future Fellowship.

Presentations:

1. Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S., Berthelsen, D. & Walker, S. (2009, December). Impact of speech and language impairment at 4- to 5-years on literacy, numeracy, and learning at 6- to 7-years. 2nd Growing Up in Australia: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Research Conference, Melbourne.
2. McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L. & McCormack, J. (2009, December). Correspondence between direct assessment of speech and language impairment in 4- to 5-year-olds and LSAC measures of parent and teacher reported concern. Poster presented at the 2nd Growing Up in Australia: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Research Conference, Melbourne.

Korean

My daughter received an award from the Korean Government for "outstanding accomplishment in Korean language study" through her local public school in rural Australia. Her school class has regular videoconferences with their sister class in Korea.

HCSNet Conference, Sydney, Dec 2009

The Human Communication Science Network Conference was held in Sydney in December 2009. It included the Australian Language and Speech Conference, Building the Australian National Corpus workshop, OzPhon and other events related to Human Communication Science.

Kate Crowe and Sharynne at the HCSNet Conference at University of NSW, Sydney

Presentations

1. McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L. & McCormack, J. (2009, December). Prevalence of communication impairment in 4- to 5-year-old Australian children. Australian Language and Speech Conference, Sydney.