IJSLP ranked an A journal by the Australian Government

IJSLP ranked an A journal by the Australian Government
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has been ranked as an A journal in the Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) rankings released this month. Journals are ranked as A*, A, B, C, or unranked, so this ranking places IJSLP amongst the top speech-language pathology journals in the world according to the Australian government. For the complete list of journals see: www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm.

This ranking follows shortly after the inclusion of IJSLP in SCOPUS and the ISI Social Sciences Citation Index. These accolades are very important for the longevity of the journal in today’s very competitive academic climate.

Publications in 2010

2010 has been a good year so far for publications:

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Yavaş, M. & McLeod, S. (2010). Acquisition of /s/ clusters in English speaking children with phonological disorders. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24(3), 169-176.
• McLeod, S., Press, F., & Phelan, C. (2010). The (in)visibility of children with communication impairment in Australian health, education, and disability legislation and policies. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 13(1), 67-75.
• McCormack , J., McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L., & Holliday, E. L. (2010). A different view of talking: How children with speech impairment picture their speech. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language, and Hearing, 12(1), 10-15.
• Barr, J. & McLeod, S. (2010). They never see how hard it is to be me: Siblings’ observations of strangers, peers and family. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12(2), 162-171.

BOOK

• Williams, A. L., McLeod, S. & McCauley, R. J. (Eds.) (2010). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MA: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• McLeod, S. (2010). Laying the foundations for multilingual acquisition: An international overview of speech acquisition. In M. Cruz-Ferreira (Ed). Multilingual norms (pp. 53-71). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing.
• McLeod, S. & Searl, J. (2010). Adaptation to an electropalatograph palate: Acoustic, impressionistic, and perceptual data. In T. W. Powell & M. J. Ball (Eds). Clinical linguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics (Vol. 2, pp. 195-221). Oxford: Routledge.
• Baker, E. & McLeod, S. (2010). Evidence-based management of phonological impairment in children. In T. W. Powell & M. J. Ball (Eds). Clinical linguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics (Vol. 4, pp. 446-469). Oxford: Routledge.

“The primary aim of this new four-volume Routledge collection is to assemble a representative library of the seminal and the best cutting-edge Clinical Linguistics scholarship. Classic works, as well as state-of-the-art data-based and philosophical articles, are included.”

• Williams. A. L., McLeod, S. & McCauley, R. J. (2010). Direct speech production interventions. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. J. McCauley (Eds.) Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MA: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
• McLeod, S., McCauley, R. J., & Williams, A. L. (2010). Speech interventions in broader contexts. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. J. McCauley (Eds.) Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MA: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
• McCauley, R. J., Williams, A. L., & McLeod, S. (2010). Interventions for achieving speech movements. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. J. McCauley (Eds.) Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MA: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
• McCauley, R. J., Williams, A. L. & McLeod, S. (2010). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children: Future directions. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. J. McCauley (Eds.) Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MA: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.

International perspectives on clinical linguistics and phonetics

The first issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology for 2010 has as its theme: International perspectives on clinical linguistics and phonetics.
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This issue highlights the internationalization of the journal with the publication of manuscripts by authors from: UK, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, USA, and Australia.

It was a pleasure and a challenge to edit this issue - the Chinese characters and phonetic symbols kept both myself and the typesetters on their toes.

Assessing prosodic skills in five European languages: Cross-linguistic differences in typical and atypical populations
Sue J. E. Peppé, Pastora Martínez-Castilla, Martine Coene, Isabelle Hesling, Inger Moen, and Fiona E. Gibbon

A database for investigating the logographeme as a basic unit of writing Chinese
Hoi-Ming Lui, Man-Tak Leung, Sam-Po Law, and Roxana Suk-Yee Fung

Production of tense marking in successive bilingual children: When do they converge with their monolingual peers?Theodoros Marinis and Vasiliki Chondrogianni

Temporal parameters of spontaneous speech in Alzheimer’s disease
Ildikó Hoffmann, Dezso Nemeth, Cristina D. Dye, Magdolna Pákáski, Tamás Irinyi, and János Kálmán

Assessing frequency effects on verb inflection use by Spanish-speaking individuals with agrammatism: Theoretical and clinical implicationsJosé G. Centeno and Helen Smith Cairns

Verbal repetition skill in language impaired children: Evidence of inefficient lexical processing?Neville W. Hennessey, Suze Leitão, and Kate Mucciarone

Through the magnifying glass: Underlying literacy deficits and remediation potential in Childhood Apraxia of SpeechElena Zaretsky, Shelley L. Velleman, and Kristina Curro

Phonetic and phonological errors in children with high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome
Joanne Cleland, Fiona E. Gibbon, Sue J. E. Peppé, Anne O’Hare and Marion Rutherford

Websites about bilingual speech acquisition

Here are some websites that are relevant to the consideration of bilingual speech acquisition

• Bilingual therapies: http://blog.bilingualtherapies.com
• The right to be bilingual: http://www.francoisgrosjean.ch/the_right_en.html

The Future Fellowship officially begins

My Future Fellowship officially began on Monday 8th February, 2010.

What a privelidge it is to think about research full time!

My first weeks have been a productive and collegial time. Here are a few highlights:

1. Dr. Karla Washington and I submitted a grant application titled: Investigating children's acquisition of Jamaican Creole (Patois). While I was working in the Australian summer heat, Karla was in the Canadian snow (below)

2. Kate Crowe came to Bathurst for a week and worked on her PhD proposal titled: Multilingual children with hearing loss: Communication choices and outcomes. Kate cooked a lovely Chinese meal to inspire us (below).

3. Jane McCormack and I have been invited to co-author a book chapter on Communication measures for the ICF-CY:

McLeod, S., McCartney, E. & McCormack, J. (in process). Communication (d310-d369). In A. Majnemer (Eds). Measures for children with developmental disabilities: Framed by the ICF-CY. London: Mac Keith Press.

4. I attended the christening of Xander Watts Pappas. Xander's mum is my colleague and ex-PhD student. The celebration was wonderful Greek family event and enabled me to participate in an important aspect of bicultural Australia.

5. This week Isabelle Simard is visiting from Montréal Canada. She speaks many languages (including French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Greek!) and her SLP clinic specialises in working with multilingual children.