Presentations at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Brisbane, June 2019

The Speech Pathology Australia  and New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Association Conference is being held in Brisbane 2-5 June 2019.

The conference began with an excellent workshop from Professor Susan Rvachew from McGill University in Canada titled "Input-oriented approach to phonological intervention: Why? When? How?".

Dr Alison Holm, Dr Suzanne Hopf, Dr Nicole Watts Pappas, Prof Susan Rvachew,
Dr Elise Baker, Nicole McGill, Anna Cronin, Prof Sharynne McLeod

Here are the presentations from our Charles Sturt University Speech-Language-Multilingualism team.

Oral presentations:

1. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. - Expert practice for children with cleft palate across the world: Application of the ICF-CY
2. Cronin, A., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. - What are the experiences of families of young children with cleft palate?
3. McGill, N., Crowe, K., McLeod, S., & Hopf, S. - Waiting lists and prioritisation for paediatric speech pathology services: Speech pathologists’ perspectives.
4. McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. - “Struggling and needing help”: Experiences of waiting for speech pathology services in Australia.
5. McCormack, J., McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. - Comparing children’s and parents’ perspectives about speech in the Sound Start Study.
6. McLeod, S., Cronin, A., Masso, S., & Phạm , B. - Transcribing Vietnamese: English-speaking speech pathologists’ transcription of child and adult speech.

Poster presentations:

1. Blake, H. L., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. - Enhancing the English intelligibility of multilingual speakers.
2. Brown, M. I., Wang, C., & McLeod, S. - Reading with babies impacts literacy, language, and numeracy skills at 8-9 years.
3. Davis, E., McLeod, S., Rohr, K., Roberts, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Thornton, S., Ahio, N. - Randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of advice versus device for children on speech pathology waiting lists.
4. McGill, N., McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., & Miller, K. - ‘Wait’ lifting: Randomised controlled trial evaluating active versus passive waiting for speech pathology by children with speech and language difficulties.
5. Lyons, R., McAllister, L., Atherton, M., Bickford, J., Bright, F., Bryant, L., Davidson, B., Easton, C., Foster, A., Hersh, D. McLeod, S., O'Halloran, R., Siyambalapitiya, S., Spencer, S., Verdon, S., & Worrall, L. - Introducing qualitative research in speech pathology.
6. Verdon, S., Wang, C., McLeod, S. & Tran, V. - Vietnamese-Australians’ language use, proficiency, and maintenance. 
7. Tran. V., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wang, C. - Factors affecting home language maintenance: A narrative review. 

SLM team at SPA2019: Back: Dr Michelle Brown, Kate Margetson, Anna Cronin, Anniek van Doornik, Sadie and Dr Sarah Verdon. Front: Helen Blake, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Prof Susan Rvachew, A/Prof Jane McCormack, Nicole McGill

Dr Michelle Brown presenting her poster

The SLM team at the conference dinner