On 24th February, I presented a one-day workshop in Sydney for Speech Pathology Australia. The workshop was titled "International speech acquisition: A world tour".
The workshop covered:
- definitions and aspects of multilingualism
- the range of languages spoken by children in Australia
- similarities and differences between aspects of speech (consonants, vowels, syllable structure etc) for a wide range of languages
- typical speech acquisition for monolingual children who speak languages other than English
- speech acquisition for multilingual children
- speech assessment for multilingual children, including techniques for differentiating difference from disorder in children’s speech, and ways to listen to children's perspectives
- speech intervention for multilingual children
