Children’s speech and language competence
Charles Sturt University Public Lecture
Professor Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Contact: smcleod@csu.edu.au
Speech Pathology Australia
2. Speech Pathology Week http://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/talkwithme
3. Speech Pathology Australia fact sheets http://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/publications/fact-sheets
Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
4. Commonwealth of Australia (2009): https://education.gov.au/early-years-learning-framework
Australian children’s multilingualism
5. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & Bennetts Kneebone, L. (2014). Celebrating Indigenous Australian children’s speech and language competence. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29(2), 118-131.
6. Crowe, K., McLeod, S., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2012). The cultural and linguistic diversity of 3-year-old children with hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 17(4) 421-438.
7. Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A. (2014). Language maintenance and loss in a population study of young Australian children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29, 168-181.
Children’s speech acquisition
9. McLeod (2012) English-speaking children
10. To, C. K. -S., Cheung, P. S. -P., & McLeod, S. (2013). A population study of children's acquisition of Hong Kong Cantonese consonants, vowels, and tones. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56(1), 103-122.
11. Hambly, H., Wren, Y., McLeod, S., & Roulstone, S. (2013). The influence of bilingualism on speech production: A systematic review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 48(1), 1-24.
Prevalence of speech, language and communication needs in Australia’s children
12. McLeod, S. & Harrison, L. J. (2009). Epidemiology of speech and language impairment in a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5-year-old children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52(5), 1213-1229.
13. McLeod, S., McAllister, L., McCormack, J. & Harrison, L. J. (2014). Applying the World Report on Disability to Australian children with communication disability. Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(18), 1518-1528.
Multilingual Children’s Speech: Position Paper
15. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., and the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2013). International aspirations for speech-language pathologists’ practice with multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Development of a position paper. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46, 375-387.
Intelligibility in Context Scale
16. http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/ics
Parent-report measure of children’s intelligibility with seven communication partners available in 60 languages
Parent-report measure of children’s intelligibility with seven communication partners available in 60 languages
17. McLeod, S., Crowe, K., & Shahaeian, A. (2015). Intelligibility in Context Scale: Normative and validation data for English-speaking preschoolers. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46(3), 266-276.
Non-English speech assessments
19. McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2014). A review of 30 speech assessments in 19 languages other than English. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Relevant books
20. McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (Eds.) (2015). Introduction to speech, language and literacy. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
21. McLeod, S. (Ed). (2007). The international guide to speech acquisition. Clifton Park, NY: Cengage.
22. Williams, A. L., McLeod, S. & McCauley, R. J. (Eds.) (2010). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
23. McLeod, S. & Baker, E. (2016, in press). Children’s speech: An evidence-based approach to assessment and intervention. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
