ASHA awards ceremony: Official photos

The official photos from our ASHA awards ceremony have just arrived. It was a very special night shared with very special people. Here is the CSU media release.

Dr Kate Crowe and Prof Sharynne McLeod receiving the AJSLP editor's award from Prof Mabel Rice

Sharynne and Kate

ASHA journal award winners

Prof Sharynne McLeod (CSU, Australia), Dr Karla Washington (US), Dr Kate Crowe (CSU and Iceland), Dr Thora Masdottir (Iceland), Dr Helen Blake (CSU and UTS Australia), Dr Michelle Brown (CSU, Australia)

Prof Lilly Cheng, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Helen Blake, Prof Dolores Battle

Thank you to the SLM team for your support in 2019

Thank you so much to the following 20 people who have been part of the SLM team and have provided magnificent support throughout 2019

• Helen Blake - PhD student 
• Dr Michelle Brown - Postdoc 
• Anna Cronin - PhD student 
• Dr Kate Crowe - Research fellow 
• Dr Suzanne Hopf - Colleague
• Kylie Huynh - VietSpeech Research assistant 
• Kate Margetson - VietSpeech Project officer
• Dr Sarah Masso - Colleague 
• Holly McAlister - Honours student 
• A/Prof Jane McCormack - Colleague
• Nicole McGill - PhD student 
• Dr Ben Pham - Research fellow 
• Olivia Richards - StoryBabies Research assistant 
• Jake Sheader - Research assistant 
• Lily To - VietSpeech Research assistant 
• Dr Van Tran - PhD student 
• Dr Sarah Verdon - VietSpeech Co-investigator 
• Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang - VietSpeech Project officer

and special thanks to:

• Donna Bateup - SOTE Admin 
• David McLeod - Super supporter 
• and all of my colleagues across the world

Our work together means we have to trust each other in many ways as we grow to be better researchers, better people, and to create new knowledge that will benefit the world.

Finally, thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University, NSW Health, and the Australian Research Council for funding our research in 2019.

2019 Christmas tree filled with memories from around the world

Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium

Last week the VietSpeech team presented two papers at the Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium (ITML5), an international online symposium accessible here: https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5. The theme this year was "Language, Culture and Ethnicity in Indigenous and Migrant Languages" Our papers are available here:

• Vietnamese language use, proficiency, and intergenerational transmission in Australia - Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Van Tran (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/vietnamese-language-use-proficiency-and-intergenerational-transmission-in-australia-1.466375) 
• Factors affecting Vietnamese-Australian children's language proficiency and use - Van Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Sarah Verdon (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/factors-affecting-vietnamese-australian-children-s-language-proficiency-and-use-1.466368)

There was another presentation about Vietnamese as well:

• Language negotiation in bilingual mother-child interactions: The case of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Singapore - Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh and Nguyen Thi Hanh (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/language-negotiation-in-bilingual-mother-child-interactions-1.466350)

Book chapters currently in press

Over the past few weeks I have learned that the following book chapters are now in press:

1. McLeod, S., McCormack, J., & Blake, H. L. (2019, in press December). Communication, participation and cohort studies. In J. Law, S. Reilly & C. McKean (Eds.). Handbook of language development in a social context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2. McCormack, J. & McLeod, S. (2019, in press December). Classifying health and wellbeing: Applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to early years learners. In S. Garvis & D. Pendergast (Eds). Health and wellbeing in childhood (3rd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
3. McCormack, J. & McLeod, S. (2019, in press December). Communication development. In S. Garvis & D. Pendergast (Eds). Health and wellbeing in childhood (3rd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press.
4. Baker, E., McCauley, R. J., Williams, A. L., & McLeod, S. (2019, in press November). Elements in phonological intervention: A comparison of three approaches using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy. In E. Babatsouli & M. J. Ball (Eds.) On under-reported monolingual child phonology. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 

It has been a pleasure to work with my colleagues on these chapters.

World Health Organization International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) beta tester

I have volunteered to be a World Health Organization International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) beta tester and today we had our online briefing/training session from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Recently I finished a 2-stage review as a member of a Delphi panel for the World Health Organization Rehabilitation Competency Framework where there were many opportunities to provide a non-medical perspective about communication.

Many years ago, I provided feedback on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY) and my contribution is acknowledged in the opening pages. 

I believe it is important to provide insight from the perspective of a speech-language pathologist into  WHO's development of classification systems.

Congratulations Dr Blake!

Today Helen Blake graduated with her PhD.
Charles Sturt University published a media release about her success: An interesting career led to PhD for significant multilingual speech research

Dr Sarah Verdon and I are her proud supervisors.

More information about Dr Blake’s PhD research is here:

• https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/03/congratulations-helen-phd-submission.html 
• https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/11/congratulations-helen-on-your-phd.html 

Dr Helen Blake with her proud supervisors Dr Sarah Verdon and Prof Sharynne McLeod

Dr Helen Blake

Faculty of Arts and Education PhD graduates

Dr Helen Blake and her father are related to ex-CSU Vice Chancellor CD Blake

 

Congratulations Grear

Today Grear McAdam graduated with a Bachelor of Communications (Radio) from CSU. Grear has been our research assistant over many years - so it was wonderful to be there to congratulate her.

CSU Media: "Another international award for leading Charles Sturt researchers"

Thanks CSU Media for so eloquently celebrating this award with us:

• "Another international award for leading Charles Sturt researchers" https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/another-international-award-for-leading-charles-sturt-researchers

• The story was also featured in the Campus Review (4 Dec 2019): "The award-winning Charles Sturt paper that 'broke' the internet"
• Here is the impact of our paper and how it is being used around the world

Campus Review story: "The award-winning Charles Sturt paper that 'broke' the internet"