April 30, 2019

Impact! Apparently we "broke the internet" with our speech acquisition paper

Recently I was shown a blog post documenting the impact of the publication of McLeod and Crowe (2018) after the distribution of our speech sound infographics at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention.

Here is the blog post talking about the impact of our work: "That one time a journal article on speech sounds broke the SLP internet"
https://www.theinformedslp.com/how-to/that-one-time-a-journal-article-on-speech-sound-norms-broke-the-slp-internet

Here is my blog post about our original journal article (McLeod & Crowe, 2018) with all of our relevant links: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2018/11/childrens-consonant-acquisition.html

I had heard that our paper and infographics had been of interest to SLPs - particularly in the US - but hadn't realised the extent of discussion about it. I am pleased that its legacy has been to promote extensive discussion about how to identify children for intervention. Kate and I have been invited to discuss our work at the 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention, so this should be fun.

Here are some other blog posts about our journal article: