From 17-19 November, I attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Convention, in San Diego, CA along with 12,000+ other delegates.
My colleagues and I coordinated the following invited sessions:
- McLeod,
S. & Goldstein, B. A. (Coordinators) Cross-linguistic and multilingual aspects of speech sound disorders in
children (Invited 2 hour seminar)
- McLeod, S., Staley, B., & Battle, D. (Coordinators) SLP university programs in developing
countries: Culturally sustainable approaches (Invited 2 hour seminar).
I co-presented the following papers:
- McLeod, S. Multilingual speech assessment and analysis.(Paper as part of invited seminar)
- Goldstein, B. A. & McLeod, S. Typical and atypical multilingual
speech acquisition. (Paper as part of invited seminar)
- Baker, E. & McLeod, S. SLPs’ assessment and intervention practices
for childhood speech sound disorders. (Technical paper)
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Washington, K. N., Thomas-Stonell, N., McLeod,
S., Warr-Leeper, G. Parents’
and SLPs’ perspectives on communication and participation skills. (Poster)
It was a stimulating convention. A time for learning, discussion, celebrations, and continuing friendships.
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| Presenters in the seminar on multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Brian Goldstein, Karla Washington (Jamaican Creole), Seyhun
Topbaş (Turkish), Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann, Helen Grech (Maltese), Sharynne McLeod, Carol To (Hong Kong Cantonese),
Raúl
Rojas (Spanish), David Ingram, and Raúl
Prezas (Spanish) |
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| Presenters in the seminar on SLP university programs in developing countries: Sharynne McLeod, Marie Atherton (Vietnam), Ken Bleile (Nicaragua), Bea Staley, Kartini Ahmad (Malaysia), Karen Wylie (Senegal). Mary Wickenden (Sri Lanka) and Julie Marshall (Uganda) presented their papers by proxy. |
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| Larry Shriberg, Marc Fey (ASHA Honors awardee), Sandy Fey, and Sharynne McLeod after the ASHA Awards Ceremony |
