- Sarah Masso (Charles Sturt University) - Masso, S., McLeod, S., Baker, E. & McCormack, J. Assessment and analysis of polysyllables in children with speech sound disorders.
- Megan McDonald (University of Cincinnati) - McDonald, M., Washington, K. N., McLeod, S., Crowe, K., Devonish, H. Validation of the intelligibility in context scale as a subjective measure for Jamaican creole-speaking preschoolers.
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
July 14, 2015
ASHA convention statistics
I have been a committee co-chair for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention this year. I have just learned that there were a total of 3012 papers submitted for consideration and 2601 have been accepted for presentation (1573 of the accepted presentations are posters). Congratulations to the following students who have had their papers accepted: