On Wednesday 7th April, 2010 two renowned academics visited Charles Sturt University, Bathurst: Sara Howard, Reader in Clinical Phonetics, President, International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association and Mick Perkins, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Linguistics both of the Department of Human Communication Sciences at The University of Sheffield, England.
The morning program consisted of a seminar and discussion
The afternoon program consisted of the following public lectures:
Mick Perkins: Pragmatic impairment: Cognitive deficit or interactional achievement?
Sara Howard:Analysing children's speech: From single words to connected speech
Ben Bradley: Infancy, language and thirdness
The aim of this day was to catalyse thinking and collaboration between practitioners and researchers who have interests in speech and language but have different disciplinary and ideological standpoints.
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Sara and Mick being interviewed at radio 2BS |