March 27, 2015
Kate Crowe new Associate Editor for The Volta Review
Congratulations to Dr Kate Crowe, who has been appointed Associate Editor for AG Bell’s
The Volta Review, a long-standing and well-recognised journal within the
field of deafness and particularly early intervention for hearing
loss. Kate will be involved in managing the
review process for submitted manuscripts and providing guidance to authors and
reviewers: http://www.listeningandspokenlanguage.org/
Source: RIPPLE Relay, March 2015
Source: RIPPLE Relay, March 2015
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March 26, 2015
Ben meets the mayor
This week my PhD student Ben Pham was welcomed to Bathurst by the Mayor. There were 22 new residents from across Australia with two families who have moved internationally from Pakistan and Vietnam. Bathurst is 200 years old this year, so she was invited to join the city's celebrations.
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March 24, 2015
Skating Kate
Kate Crowe is a postdoctoral scholar leading the Sound Start Study (ARC Discovery Grant DP130102545). In her spare time she has been the Australian Team Manager for the Fire on Ice Senior Synchronized Skating Team that competed at the French Cup in
January 2015 in Rouen, France. Here is a photo of Kate in the Macquarie Ice Rink Artistic (MIRA) competition during 2014.We are very fortunate to have such a multi-talented colleague!
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CSU
March 23, 2015
NSW/ACT Young Achievers Award for Science Leadership
This weekend Sarah Verdon learned that she has won the NSW/ACT Young Achievers Award for Science Leadership for
2014! The CSU media release is here. Here is the description of Sarah's achievement as a finalist on the Young Achievers' website:
Sarah Verdon, 27 of The Rock is a dynamic speech pathologist and educator who is passionate about creating equality and embracing diversity. A PhD student at Charles Sturt University Sarah’s doctoral research is entitled Embracing Diversity, Creating Equality. The research supports the speech, language and communication of culturally and linguistically diverse children. Her thesis contains five different research projects (both quantitative and qualitative) resulting in nine research papers and multiple oral presentations at international conferences. Sarah also received the 2015 Endeavour Research Fellowship to undertake a project she designed to support the speech, language and literacy development of children in Fiji… Congratulations Sarah Verdon.
March 21, 2015
Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy - Oxford University Press
Today Jane McCormack and I submitted the final version of Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy to Oxford University Press - ready for publication. Here is the chapter line-up:
Chapter 1: What is speech, language, and literacy?Sharynne McLeod and Jane McCormackChapter 2: Sociolinguistic environments of speech, language, and literacyCatherine Easton and Jane McCormackChapter 3: Speech: PhoneticsFelicity Cox and Sharynne McLeodChapter 4: Speech: PhonologySarah Masso and Elise BakerChapter 5: Language: SemanticsNatalie Munro and Karla McGregorChapter 6: Language: MorphologyKatherine Demuth, Kelly Miles, Sithembinkosi Dube, and Ekaterina TomasChapter 7: Language: SyntaxRosalind ThorntonChapter 8: Language: Discourse and pragmaticsAlison Ferguson and Elizabeth SpencerChapter 9: Literacy: ReadingSarah H. McDonaghChapter 10: Literacy: WritingNoella M. Mackenzie and Janet ScullChapter 11: Cognitive basis for speech, language, and literacyKaren Smith-Lock and Lyndsey NickelsChapter 12: Neurobiological basis for speech, language, and literacyAngela Morgan and Frédérique J. LiégeoisChapter 13: Interaction between speech, language, and literacySuze Leitão
Professor Alison Ferguson (chapter 8) and Sharynne discussing the submission of the book |
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March 16, 2015
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 5
I have been invited to review the US version of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 5 to determine its suitability for children in Australia and New Zealand. It has been an interesting exercise, particularly thinking of the relevance to the Indigenous and multilingual people in our countries, compared with those in the US.
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assessment,
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March 12, 2015
Professorial representative on Academic Senate
I have just been appointed one of the professorial representatives on Academic Senate for Charles Sturt University until mid 2016. The Academic Senate is the principal academic body of the University "advising the Council and Vice-Chancellor on all matters relating to teaching,
scholarship and research and ensuring the high quality of teaching and learning
and research within the University by developing and implementing appropriate
policies". More information is here. It will be an honour to serve in this role.
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March 10, 2015
Sound Start Study meeting
Today our Sound Start Study team met via Skype. We linked 7 people across 5 sites, 4 cities (Bristol, UK, Sydney, Albury, Bathurst) and 2 countries. This is the third and final year of the Sound Start Study - and by the end of the year we will learn whether the computerised intervention for children with speech sound disorders (Phoneme Factory Sound Sorter) has been successful. We have to continue to blind the data from our randomised controlled trial until the end of this year - so are looking forward to finding out the result.
Intelligibility in Context Scale: A parent-report screening tool translated into 60 languages
The following invited article has just been published
McLeod,
S. (2015). Intelligibility
in Context Scale: A parent-report screening tool translated into 60 languages. Journal of Clinical Practice in
Speech-Language Pathology, 17(1),
7-12.
Here is the abstract:
The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a free parent-report screening tool that has been translated into more than 60 languages. The creation of the 7-item scale was informed by the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (WHO, 2007). Translation and back translation into 60 languages has been undertaken internationally by speech pathologists, linguists and translators. Since the creation of the ICS, it has been validated on 120 English-speaking children in Australia and 74 Cantonese-speaking children from Hong Kong. The ICS has been normed on 804 Australian English-speaking children and additional validation, norming, and clinical studies have been conducted or are underway in countries including: Brazil, Croatia, Fiji, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Germany, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa, and Sweden. The ICS is a promising screening measure for speech pathologists to use to consider parental perceptions of children’s intelligibility with different communicative partners.
March 6, 2015
Congratulations Sarah - PhD Submission
Today Sarah Verdon
submitted her PhD titled "Embracing
Diversity – Creating Equality: Supporting the speech, language, and
communication of culturally and linguistically diverse children". Her PhD comprises a series of 9 papers and an exegesis:
Lisa McLean (Faculty of Education Research and Graduate Studies Office) receiving Sarah's PhD |
- Paper 1: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A. (2014). Linguistic diversity among Australian children in the first five years of life. Speech, Language, and Hearing, 17(4), 196–203. doi: 10.1179/2050572814Y.0000000038
- Paper 2: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A. (2014). Language maintenance and loss in a population study of young Australian children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29(2), 168–181. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2013.12.003
- Paper 3: Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2015, early online). Indigenous language learning and maintenance among young Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. International Journal of Early Childhood, 47(1). doi: 10.1007/s13158-015-0131-3
- Paper 4: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & McDonald, S. (2014). A geographical analysis of speech-language pathology services to support multilingual children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16(3), 304–316. doi:10.3109/17549507.2013.868036
- Paper 5: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wong, S. (2015). Reconceptualising practice with multilingual children with speech sound disorders: People, practicalities and policy. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 50(1), 48–62. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12112
- Paper 6: Verdon, S. (2014). Understanding the world through ethnography: The experience of speech-language pathology practice in culturally and linguistically diverse settings. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology 16(3), 110–116.
- Paper 7: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wong, S. (2014). Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse children with speech, language, and communication needs: Overarching principles, individual approaches. Manuscript in submission December 2014.
- Paper 8: Verdon, S., Wong, S., & McLeod, S. (2015). Shared knowledge and mutual respect: The importance of collaboration when engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse families.
- Paper 9: Verdon, S. (2015, in press). Enhancing practice with culturally and linguistically diverse families: Six key principles from the field. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 17(1).
Sharynne and Sarah with her PhD. |
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