December 19, 2019

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

December 17, 2019

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

December 16, 2019

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:
There was another presentation about Vietnamese as well:

December 13, 2019

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.

December 12, 2019

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:

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.

December 2, 2019

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

Thanks CSU Media for so eloquently celebrating this award with us:
Campus Review story: "The award-winning Charles Sturt paper that 'broke' the internet"