International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference - Stockholm, Sweden

The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference is in Stockholm, Sweden this week. There are 271 delegates from 33 countries. 235 abstracts were submitted with 66 oral presentations and 115 posters accepted.

Dr Ann Harding-Bell (UK), Sarah Masso (Aus), Dr Karla Washington (US), Dr Jane Speake (UK), Prof Nancy Scherer (US),  Prof Sharynne McLeod (Aus) at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

ICPLA opening session

Children's speech assessment panel:
Sarah Masso, Dr Karla Washington, Sarah Verdon, Sharynne, Suzanne Hopf

My students (Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, and Suzanne Hopf), colleagues, and I are presenting the following papers:

1. McLeod, S. (chair) Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations. 90 minute panel.
2. Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wong, S. International approaches to the assessment of children with speech sound disorders. Paper presented in the 90 minute panel on Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations.
3. Masso, S., Baker, E., McLeod, S. &  McCormack, J. Phonological processing assessments in English for young children with speech sound disorders. Paper presented in the 90 minute panel on Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations.
4. McLeod, S., Washington, K., Devonish, H., Samms-Vaughan, M., & Creaghead, N. Code switching in the speech of young Jamaican children.  Paper presented in the 90 minute panel on Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations.
5. Hopf, S., C., & McLeod, S. Cross-cultural considerations when assessing the speech of young children from Fiji. Paper presented in the 90 minute panel on Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations.
6. Ng, K., To, C. K. S., & McLeod, S. Intelligibility in Context Scale validation for Cantonese-speaking children in Hong Kong. Paper presented in the 90 minute panel on Children’s speech assessment: Cross-cultural considerations.
7. Washington, K., McLeod, S., Samms-Vaughan, M., Devonish, H., & Creaghead, N. Code switching in the language of young Jamaican children.  Paper.
8. Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A.  Facilitating home language maintenance in an English dominant context. Paper.
9. McLeod, S., Crowe, K., Masso, S., Baker, E., McCormack, J., Wren, Y., Roulstone, S. Talking and making speech sounds is of greater concern for parents and teachers of 4- to 5-year-old children than other aspects of development. Poster.

   

   Sharynne, Suzanne Hopf, Sarah Masso, Karla Washington, and Suzanne's family in Stockholm

   

   The Esses in Stockholm, Sweden (i.e., my PhD students!):
   Sarah Masso, Sarah Verdon, Sharynne McLeod and Suzanne Hopf