The
10th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language, and Hearing (APCSLH) is being held in Narita, Japan on 17-19 September.
There are 450+ attendees from 18 countries and 82 papers and 174 posters are being presented. I am presenting an invited paper and Ben Phạm is presenting two papers:
- McLeod, S. - Identifying children with speech sound disorders across languages (invited)
- Phạm, B., McLeod, S. & Harrison, L. J. - Validation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale with preschool children in Ha Noi, Viet Nam
- Phạm, B. & McLeod, S. - Acquisition of consonants, vowels and tones by children in Northern Viet Nam
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Keynote speakers include Dr Lilly Cheng, Dr Loraine Ramig (LSVT),
and Dr Patty Prelock from USA |
We are having a wonderful time networking with people from across the Asia Pacific region.
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Vietnamese colleagues: Dr Sally Hewat, Sharynne, Mrs Loan, Ms Thanh,
Ben Pham, Sarah Day, Dr Cuong |
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Hong Kong colleagues: A/Prof Carol To, A/Prof Kathy Lee (with her new
Cantonese Spoken Word Recognition Test), Sharynne and Ben Pham |
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Taiwan/USA colleague: Sharynne, Prof. Lilly Cheng, Ben Pham |
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Thai colleagues: A/Prof Sumalai Maroonroge and Prof. Benjamas Prathanee |
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Ben Pham and I had fun at the Japanese cultural centre organised by the conference |