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.Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
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.