Working With Children From Multilingual Backgrounds
Presented by Associate Professor Cori Williams
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) National Tour presented by Cori Williams. It was wonderful to listen and learn from Cori and to discuss these important issues with other SLPs including Kate Crowe, my PhD student who also went to Canberra for the day. A number of SLPs from Canberra work with children of diplomats, so conducting intervention in these children's home languages is very important for when they return to their home countries.
Cori and I have designed a questionnaire that is being given to each of the participants in the SPA National Tour workshops to find out about Australian SLPs' beliefs and practices about working with children from multilingual backgrounds. Cori has now finished two of her eight presentations, so we look forward to analysing the data when she is finished.
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| Associate Professor Cori Williams and Professor Sharynne McLeod thinking about multilingual speech in Canberra |
