Launch of the Multilingual Children's Speech website

Today the Multilingual Children's Speech website has been launched:
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/
The purpose of this website is to present a compilation of resources for SLPs who are working with multilingual children with speech sound disorders and to partially address the following question:

How do we “close the gap between the linguistic homogeneity of the profession and the linguistic diversity of its clientele”? (Caesar & Kohler, 2007, p. 198)

The website contains the following information:

• Overview: an overview about the site
• Position paper: description of the Multilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Position Paper
• Languages: comparative information about 25 languages
• Speech acquisition: a summary of speech acquisition for English + a compilation of information from 250 studies of monolingual speech acquisition around the world
• Speech assessments: a list of speech assessments (articulation and phonology) in languages other than English (including purchasing information where available)
• Intelligibility in Context Scale: translated into 29 languages
• Information about publications and the research team

Some of the content on this website also may be useful for others who support monolingual and multilingual children’s speech skills  including educators, interpreters, other health and education professionals, families, and communities.

Funding for this website has been made available from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT0990588) and I appreciate the support from colleagues from Charles Sturt University, as well as speech-language pathologists, phoneticians, linguists and others around the world have contributed to the development of this website. Specific contributions are acknowledged throughout the website; however, the generosity of others within the wider international community is acknowledged.