I have been invited to present a Charles Sturt University Public Lecture on Wednesday 20th August. The lecture is a part of the Explorations series. The title is Speaking my languages: Celebrating multilingual children
Children are amazing!
They master most of their speech and language skills in their first five to six
years of life. Many children around the world become competent communicators in
more than one language. However, some children have difficulty with speech
and language, regardless of the number of languages they speak. Communication
is a basic human right, and it is important to facilitate children’s
communicative capacity. This presentation will offer a world tour of the
research undertaken during Professor McLeod’s four-year Australian Research
Council Future Fellowship. Insights will be provided about supporting
children’s communication based on her work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous
Australians, as well as with children from Vietnam, Fiji, Turkey, Zambia, Hong
Kong, Germany, US, Iceland and many other countries. Audience members are
encouraged to bring their smart phones, tablets, or laptop computers to access
online resources during the presentation.
