Nearly finished

It is such a joy to work with my PhD students. Anna Cronin is almost finished her PhD and should submit within the next month or so. Dr Sarah Verdon and I met with Anna again today for her weekly virtual meeting. Anna has undertaken her entire PhD via distance, so the COVID-19 lockdown hasn't changed our meeting arrangements at all. Best wishes Anna for the final phase.

Bathurst in Autumn

It's beautiful in Bathurst at the moment. Here are some photos taken on the weekend.

CSU COVID-19 research grants

Charles Sturt University  released $200,000 of internal funding to support new projects focused on understanding the impacts on the health, wellbeing, business performance, communities and economy of Australia. Project funds ... can be in any discipline area and with any deliverable outcome providing that these are focussed on:

• generating new knowledge regarding the impact of this virus on our people or communities; 
• delivering solutions for post-COVID-19 resilience; 
• economic rebuilding; or 
• a combination of the above. 

A total of 64 applications were submitted from across the University, with about 21 of these 64 applications coming from the Faculty of Arts and Education.

Update 12 May 2020 - Eleven research projects involving a collaboration of 50 Charles Sturt staff were funded - sadly ours wasn't. Congratulations to the successful researchers.

Lead Researcher	School	Title
Professor Russell Roberts	School of Marketing and Management	The mental health and stress impacts of COVID19 on frontline human service staff - Police, Ambulance and Family and Community Services, Community Nurses (WNSWLHD)
Dr Jodie Kleinschafer	School of Marketing and Management	Understanding risk perceptions, knowledge and preventive health behaviour of Australians in rural, regional remote Western NSW during Covid-19 Pandemic
Professor Manoranjan Paul	School of Computing and Mathematics	The Corona Score: Assessment and monitor the progression of COVID-19 using artificial intelligence with multi-modal data
Professor Frank Marino	Exercise Science, Sport and Health	Metabolic and inflammatory health in COVID-19: potential mechanism for alleviation of disease severity
Dr Ryan Ip	School of Computing and Mathematics	Developing an intervention model to assess effectiveness of policy measures on COVID-19 outbreak in Australia
Associate Professor Azizur Rahman	School of Computing and Mathematics	Modelling firewall strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales, Australia
Professor Suzanne McLaren	School of Psychology	The Desire and Capability for Suicide among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Julian Grant	Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health	COVID-19 and regional racisms: have isolation and social distancing measures become sanctioned discrimination for culturally and linguistically diverse peoples?
Dr Jane Garner	School of Information Studies	Australian public libraries during the COVID-19 crisis: Implications for future policy and practice
Mr Steve Murphy	School of Education	COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of primary school Mathematics and Science education: challenges and successes
Dr Ashad Kabir	School of Computing and Mathematics	Designing Privacy Preserving and Secure Contact Tracing Mobile Apps to Combat COVID-19

Meeting our new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education

Professor John McDonald began as the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education on the week that CSU staff were all encouraged to work from home due to COVID-19 restrictions. Today he virtually met 30+ staff from the School of Teacher Education. It was great to hear about his areas of interest and committment to social justice.

Early Childhood Research Group meeting

Today our CSU Early Childhood Research Group met online. We discussed category 1-4 grants, and had an interactive presentation from Jane Norton from CSU Library about Research Professional. We also had a wonderful discussion to support one another through the COVID-19 pandemic changes to our research lives.

Congratulations Trinh Foundation: 12 years old

Recently Trinh Foundation Australia (TFA) marked 12 years of supporting the development of the speech-language pathology (speech and language therapy) profession in Vietnam.

TFA's Mission
To improve the quality of life of Vietnamese people through collaborations and
To develop knowledge and skills in management of communication and speech disorders in Vietnam.

Their latest newsletter outlines many of their achievements: https://mailchi.mp/22b69149187d/benefits-of-volunteering-in-vietnam-4943873?e=bec50f8ff8

Our VietSpeech team has had a lot of involvement over the years, and some of our involvement has been highlighted in this newsletter
1. Dr Sarah Verdon is a Trinh Foundation Board Member

Regular TFA Board meetings are held virtually by Zoom, about 10 times each year, and once a year we meet face to face for our annual strategic planning day- this year on 7 March...

2. Kate Margetson has begun a new (extra) position with the Trinh Foundation

"TFA are pleased to announce the commencement of our newest project with our partners Humanity and Inclusion at the end of this month. This exciting project, supported by USAID, will be associated with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in Vietnam, and is planned for two phases. Phase one involves mapping followed by a Needs Assessment of current AAC across Vietnam. We are delighted that previous TFA volunteer Ms Kate Margetson has accepted a consultant role for this important and needed project. Kate, who will work remotely from Australia, has extensive experience in this area, having developed an iPad app when volunteering at the Kianh Foundation in Vietnam in 2015-16. She will be ably assisted in Vietnam by the current leader of the Vietnamese Speech Therapy network Dr Thao. (UPNT Graduate 2010-12). Following completion of phase one, recommendations will be made to Humanity and Inclusion regarding the development or application of an existing APP to suit the Vietnamese context as phase two of the project. This APP will meet the critical needs of a large cross section of the Vietnamese community who experience significant communication impairment."

3. Dr Sarah Verdon, Dr Ben Pham and Prof Sharynne McLeod currently are supervising Masters students' research in Vietnam

"And thanks also to the Australian academics and Dr Ben Pham in Hanoi who have used the unexpectedly available time as a result of the suspension of teaching in the Master degree to work intensively with the students on their thesis research proposals and ethics applications, while also still working in the new normal in Australia and Vietnam. "

4. Prof Sharynne McLeod's congratulations were published in the newsletter:

“Congratulations to Lindy McAllister and Sue Woodward for their vision and long-term commitment and all of the dedicated board members, students, staff, volunteers, lecturers, clinical educators, family members, donors and so many others who have worked hard towards the goal of the right to communicate for everyone in Vietnam.” Professor Sharynne McLeod - Charles Sturt University and volunteer lecturer

Conducting research online

Here are some resources to support online research:

• NSW Department of Education: https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-from-home/media/documents/guidelines-to-support-schools-using-live-video-with-students.pdf 
• StoryPark (Early childhood education) https://blog.storypark.com/2020/04/how-to-provide-a-virtual-group-time-to-young-children/
• Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/04/20/carrying-out-qualitative-research-under-lockdown-practical-and-ethical-considerations/

Congratulations Holly and Suzanne

Today during Holly McAlister's honours meeting we celebrated:

• Holly's Executive Dean's Award for Academic Excellence (semester 2, 2019)
• Suzanne's new role as Master of Speech Pathology Course Leader at CSU

Congratulations Holly and Suzanne!
We also spent 1.5 hours undertaking data cleaning by looking at inconsistencies in Fijian children's consonant productions on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP). It was a really interesting meeting.

VietSpeech team meeting

Our VietSpeech team  met together today to continue planning and undertaking data collection, data entry/cleaning, data analysis, publications and presentations. We have recently added two research assistants to support data entry: Katherine White and Olivia Richards. It is wonderful to work with such a productive, supportive, creative, and flexible team.

Dr Sarah Verdon, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, Kate Margetson, Dr Van Tran

An important reminder from 2019

The impact of coronavirus around the world

I work with colleagues and have many friends in many different countries. Over the past week I have talked with many of them. It has been interesting to learn from them how their countries are supporting their citizens regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Vietnam: People have been at home since 1st February and say it has been a very long "Lunar new year holiday (Tet)"
• Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands: Cyclone Harold has caused a lot of destruction impacting efforts to control the coronavirus and restrictions.They have a 28 day quarantine because there was evidence of transmission after the 14 days.
• UK: Many SLTs have been redeployed to work in hospitals with people with COVID-19. RCSLT has provided guidance: https://www.rcslt.org/learning/covid-19 (see image below). It seems that many people in the UK in homes and aged care facilities have not been tested for COVID-19 even if they have "viral pneumonia with coronavirus symptoms". Here are some fascinating webinars: https://www.rcslt.org/learning/covid-19/rcslt-guidance#section-3
• Iceland: The population of Iceland has been tested, enabling a nation-wide understanding of the spread of the disease.
• New Zealand: Early application of stage 4 restrictions has meant that few people have the coronavirus and very few have died to date. The NZ government has published some helpful Easy Read guidelines: https://covid19.govt.nz/resources/information-sheets/
• US: Many SLPs have been redeployed to work in hospitals with people with COVID-19 and ASHA has provided a resource page: https://www.asha.org/About/Coronavirus-Updates/. Free resources about telepractice are here: https://pubs.asha.org/special-collections/telepracticeresources
• Australia: Some speech pathologists have been trained and are ready to be redeployed if needed. Speech Pathology Australia has dedicated webpages here: https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/SPAweb/About_us/COVID-19_News_and_Information/SPAweb/About_Us/News/COVID-19.aspx  

https://www.rcslt.org/news/slts-lives-at-risk-from-covid-19-due-to-inadequate-government-guidance-on-ppe

Special issue: Transcription of Children's Speech

Over the past couple of years, Yvonne Wren, Sarah Verdon and I have been editing a special issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedia on the topic of "Transcription of Children's Speech". We are pleased to announce it has just been published. It can be found here (https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278480) and includes excellent papers from authors across the world (Canada, South Africa, UK, Ireland, US, Australia, and Vietnam). We undertook this task as part of being on the Child Speech Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).

2019 publications entered by Charles Sturt University

The following chapters, encyclopedia articles and journal articles were included in my 2019 publication outputs for Charles Sturt University. It is great to work with so many productive students and colleagues whose work focuses on the right to communicate (bolded names are people who were CSU staff, students and adjuncts at the time of writing the articles).

1. Merrick, R., McLeod, S., & Carroll, C. (2019). Innovative methods. In R. Lyons, & L. McAllister (Eds.), Qualitative research in communication disorders: An introductory guide for students and clinicians (pp. 387-405). J and R Press.
2. McLeod, S., & Masso, S. (2019). Speech sound disorders in children. In J. S. Horst, & J. von Koss Torkildsen (Eds.), International handbook of language acquisition (1st ed., pp. 362-386). Routledge.
3. Cronin, A., & McLeod, S. (2019). Cleft-lip and palate: Speech effects. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 348-351). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n120
4. Cronin, A., & McLeod, S. (2019). Craniofacial anomalies. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 515-519). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n169
5. Blake, H., & McLeod, S. (2019). Intelligibility enhancement. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 926-928). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n310
6. McLeod, S. (2019). International classification of functioning, disability and health. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 939-942). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n315
7. McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2019). Multilingualism and speech sound disorders. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 1203-1206). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n398
8. McLeod, S. (2019). Prevalence of communication disorders. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 1461-1464). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n477
9. Pham, B., & McLeod, S. (2019). Tone languages and communication disorders. In J. S. Damico, & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (pp. 1977-1980). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n639
10. McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., & Wang, C. (2019). A longitudinal population study of literacy and numeracy outcomes for children identified with speech, language, and communication needs in early childhood. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 507-517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.07.004
11. McGill, N., & McLeod, S. (2019). Aspirations for a website to support families? active waiting for speech-language pathology. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1604802
12. Hopf, S., McDonagh, S., Wang, C., & McLeod, S. (2019). English language and literacy proficiency of students in an urban Fiji primary school. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 32(2), 223-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2018.1541999
13. Blake, H. L., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2019). Exploring multilingual speakers? perspectives on their intelligibility in English. Speech, Language and Hearing, Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2019.1585681
14. Blake, H. L., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020). Intelligibility Enhancement Assessment and Intervention: a single-case experimental design with two multilingual university students. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 34(1-2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2019.1608470
15. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Wang, A., & Tran, V. (2019). Language proficiency, use, and maintenance among people with Vietnamese heritage living in Australia. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 1(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.10973
16. Crowe, K., Marschark, M., & McLeod, S. (2019). Measuring intelligibility in signed languages. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33(10-11), 997-1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2019.1600169
17. Howland, C., Baker, E., Munro, N., & McLeod, S. (2019). Realisation of grammatical morphemes by children with phonological impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33(1-2), 20-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2018.1518487
18. McLeod, S., & Masso, S. (2019). Screening children's speech: The impact of imitated elicitation and word position. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 50(1), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0141
19. Blake, H. L., & McLeod, S. (2019). Speech-language pathologists' support for multilingual speakers' English intelligibility and participation informed by the ICF. Journal of Communication Disorders, 77, 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.12.003
20. Blake, H. L., Bennetts Kneebone, L., & McLeod, S. (2019). The impact of oral English proficiency on humanitarian migrants? experiences of settling in Australia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(6), 689-705. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1294557
21. Masso, S., McLeod, S., Cronin, A., & Pham, B. (2019). Transcription of Vietnamese adults' and children's consonants by English-speaking speech-language pathologists. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1159/000500245
22. Pham, B., & McLeod, S. (2019). Vietnamese-speaking children's acquisition of consonants, semivowels, vowels, and tones in northern Viet Nam. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(8), 2645-2670. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-17-0405
23. McCormack, J., McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2019). What do children with speech sound disorders think about their talking? Seminars in Speech and Language, 40(2), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677760

Page proofs

This week I have enjoyed working with my PhD students to check the page proofs for their recently accepted manuscripts based on work from their PhDs. Congratulations Anna Cronin and Nicole McGill (and supervisory teams):

• 1. McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020, in press March). “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 
• 2. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020, in press February). Applying the ICF-CY to expert SLPs’ practice with toddlers with cleft palate speech. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 

Last week we checked the page proofs for our manuscript based on the NSW Health Translational Research Grant with colleagues from CSU and speech pathologists from the Central West of NSW:

• 3. McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Roberts, A., Thornton, S., Ahio, N., & Ivory, N. (2020, in press February). Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing device, advice, and therapy. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1731600 

I look forward to seeing all of these papers online soon.

Easter bonnet morning tea

This morning Dr Tamara Cumming organised another School of Teacher Education Morning Tea. We typically meet face-to-face every month or two, but now we are meeting virtually (and more regularly). This morning's catch up had an Easter bonnet (hat) theme. We all loved chatting with one another and playing with our virtual backgrounds in Zoom. My Easter hat was inspired by our VietSpeech project and Dr Ben Pham and her family.

School of Teacher Education Easter bonnet morning tea

Sharynne's Vietnamese-inspired Easter bonnet

CSU Student Support Grant - $1million

Today the Charles Sturt University Vice Chancellor announced:

Today, we announce a one million dollar student support grant for those affected by COVID-19. Grants will be allocated to those students assessed as most in need to a maximum of $500 each for a fulltime student and pro-rata for a student who has less than a full-time study load. The support grant is part of a wider support package that includes new online support sessions, one-on-one case management and a revamped introduction to learning online.

https://www.csu.edu.au/current-students/fees/costs-fees/scholarships-grants/find-scholarship/equity/covid-19-study-support-grant

Free lectures and resources based on our research

The following free lectures and resources have been created for colleagues who are suddenly teaching Speech Sound Disorders or Clinical Phonology online:

Phonological Interventions for Children with Speech Sound Disorders 
Baker, E., Williams, A. L., McLeod, S., & McCauley, R. J. (2018). Elements of phonological interventions for children with speech sound disorders: The development of a taxonomy. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 906-935. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0127 (https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0127)

Lectures recorded by Prof Lynn Williams about decision-making using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy.

• PART 1: https://etsu.zoom.us/rec/sha/u8ZHdrOqqmZLeNbctRzSeLRiTpjfT6a82ilPrvoJnUrfdCQ2Kx68TuHpiQDxhA_t
• PART 2: https://etsu.zoom.us/rec/share/x5EyFZP5-SBIGqfUx12Ff7N_O5zjeaa8gHUf_fVfzXtuBj8wHb6D2I1zzxb5k1E
• .pdf of slides https://www.dropbox.com/s/pab2uvlvkf96kj2/Phonological%20Intervention%20Taxonomy_zoom%20lecture_Williams.pdf?dl=0

Speech acquisition
McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546-1571. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

Last year I recorded a short lecture about children's speech acquisition:

• LECTURE: https://csu.ap.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2a03515b-8d16-4906-bbc6-a9910071ce5d 
   
• Additional critical thinking activities and resources are available here: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/11/supporting-students-critical-thinking.html

Publications using data from LSAC, LSIC, and BNLA

Our SLM team have published the following papers using data from the Australian Government Longitudinal Studies (CSU authors are in bold). It has been an amazing source of data to answer many fundamental questions about children's speech and language and has been used to inform policy and practice over the past decade.

1. LSAC, LSIC and BNLA studies

Book chapter

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. Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)

Book chapter

Daniel, G., Wang, C., Murray, E., Harrison, L. J. (2017). School choice and parent involvement among Australian children starting school.  In S. Dockett., W. Griebel., & B. Perry (Eds). Families and Transition to School (pp. 131-143). Dordrecht: Springer.

Journal articles 

Daniel, G., & Wang, C. (2017). Inclusion and the practice of repeating Kindergarten in Australia. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 22, 57-69. doi: 10.1080/19404158.2017.1367152  

Daniel, G., Wang, C., & Berthelsen, D. (2016). Early school-based parent involvement, children’s self-regulated learning and academic achievement: An Australian longitudinal study. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 36, 168-177. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.12.016  

Harrison, L. J. & McLeod, S. (2010). Risk and protective factors associated with speech and language impairment in a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5-year-old children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(2), 508-529.

Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S., Berthelsen, D., & Walker, S. (2009). Literacy, numeracy and learning in school-aged children identified as having speech and language impairment in early childhood. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11(5), 392-403.

McCormack, J., Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S. & McAllister, L. (2011). A nationally representative study of the association between communication impairment at 4-5 years and children's life activities at 7-9 years. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54(5), 1328-1348.  doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0155)

McLeod, S. & Harrison, L. J. (2009). Epidemiology of speech and language impairment in a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5-year-old children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52(5), 1213-1229.

McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., & Wang, C. (2019). A longitudinal population study of literacy and numeracy outcomes for children identified with speech, language, and communication needs in early childhood. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 507-517. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.07.004 

McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., Whiteford, C., & Walker, S. (2016). Multilingualism and speech-language competence in early childhood: Impact on academic and social-emotional outcomes at school. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 34, 53-66. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.08.005

Shahaeian, A., Wang. C., Tucker-Drob, E., Geiger, V., Bus, A., & Harrison, L. (2018). Early shared reading, socioeconomic status, and children’s cognitive and school competencies: Six years of longitudinal evidence. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22, 485-502. doi: 10.1080/10888438.2018.1482901 

Wang, C., Harrison, L., McLeod, S., Walker, S., & Spilt, J. (2018). Can teacher-child relationships support human rights to freedom of opinion and expression, education, and participation? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20, 133-141. doi:10.1080/17549507.2018.1408855 

Wang, C., Hatzigianni, M., Shahaeian, A., Murray, E., & Harrison, L. (2016). The combined effects of teacher-child and peer relationships on children’s social-emotional adjustment. Journal of School Psychology, 59, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2016.09.003  

Wang, C., Williams, K., Shahaeian, A., & Harrison, L. (2018). Early predictors of escalating internalizing problems across middle childhood. School Psychology Quarterly, 33, 200-212. doi:10.1037/spq0000218   

3. Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Journal articles

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & Bennetts Kneebone, L. (2014). Celebrating young Indigenous Australian children’s speech and language competence. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29(2), 118-131. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2013.11.003

Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2015). Indigenous language learning and maintenance among young Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. International Journal of Early Childhood, 47(1), 153-170. doi:10.1007/s13158-015-0131-3

Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A. (2014b). Linguistic diversity among Australian children in the first five years of life. Speech, Language, and Hearing, 17(4), 196-203. doi:10.1179/2050572814Y.0000000038

Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Winsler, A. (2014a). Language maintenance and loss in a population study of young Australian children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29, 168-181. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2013.12.003

Government reports

McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2015). Longitudinal patterns of language use, diversity, support, and competence. In Department of Social Services (Ed.). Footprints in Time: Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children Report from Wave 5 (pp. 66-70). Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia. ISBN: 978-1-925007-73-2

4. Building New Life in Australia (BLNA)

Blake, H. L., Bennetts Kneebone, L. & McLeod, S. (2019). The impact of oral English proficiency on humanitarian migrants’ experiences of settling in Australia. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(6), 689-705, doi:10.1080/13670050.2017.1294557

CSU Accelerating with Zoom

During the past week I have attended two Charles Sturt University seminars about using Zoom.

• Zoom Essentials (88 participants)
• Accelerating with Zoom (68 participants)

Both seminars have been excellent. We have learned about annotating, reactions, scheduleing, polls, screensharing, recordings, transcripts, closed captioning, breakout rooms, document cameras, sharing video files (with sound) etc.Thanks Prue Gonzalez and team.

Telepractice webinar from UTS

This afternoon I attended a very informative webinar by University of Technology (UTS) Speech Pathology titled "Rapid Transition to Telepractice". The free seminar was presented to 182 allied health professionals from across the world by Prof Bronwyn Hemsley, Dr Lucy Bryant, and Harmony Turnbull. Thanks for your generosity and collegiality during the COVID-19 changes to service delivery for allied health professionals.

New ways of supporting children with SSD

Today Emily Davies (Western NSW Health), Prof Kirrie Ballard (University of Sydney) and I had a wonderful 1.5-hour brainstorm about new ways of supporting children with speech sound disorders during these challenging times. Kirrie and I had another brainstorm earlier in the week sharing new knowledge we have been creating in separate research projects.

Cancelled/postponed conference presentations

Our SLM team had planned to present many papers at conferences during 2020. Most conferences have been cancelled or postponed. Here is what we had planned to present in 2020:

Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Conference (Cardiff, UK, April 2020) (postponed)

1. McLeod, S. (2020, April). Communication rights, ability, and participation [invited keynote]. Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Conference, Cardiff, Wales, UK (conference cancelled).

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (Darwin, May 2020)(postponed until May 2021)

1. McGill, N., McLeod, S., Crowe, K., & Hopf, S. C. (2020, May). Waiting list management strategies for speech pathologists: Summary of evidence [conference session]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia (conference cancelled). 
2. Van Doornik, A., McLeod, S., Terband, H., & Gerrits, E. (2020, May). The severity of speech sound disorders [conference session]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia (conference cancelled). 
3. Wang, C. McLeod, S., Verdon, S. & Tran, V. T. (2020, May). Engaging in global speech pathology practice with multilingual clients: Vietnamese-Australian adults’ bilingual proficiency profiles [conference session]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia (conference cancelled). 

International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, (Brisbane, Australia, July 2020) (postponed until July 2021)

1. Crowe, K. (2021, July). Single case experimental design. In K. Crowe & J. Trussell (Chair), Evidence-based instruction: Everything you want to know but were too afraid to ask! Symposium conducted at the 23rd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane, Australia. 
2. Crowe, K., & Trussell, J. (2021, July). Standardized assessments: Promise and pitfalls. In K. Crowe & J. Trussell (Chair), Evidence-based instruction: Everything you want to know but were too afraid to ask! Symposium conducted at the 23rd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane, Australia. 
3. Guiberson, M., Crowe, K., & Trussell, J. (2021, July). Reading research evidence: Systematic reviews and research quality. In K. Crowe & J. Trussell (Chair), Evidence-based instruction: Everything you want to know but were too afraid to ask! Symposium conducted at the 23rd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane, Australia. 
4. Smith, T., Trussell, J., & Crowe, K. (2021, July). Growing and sharing the evidence-based instruction knowledge-base. In K. Crowe & J. Trussell (Chair), Evidence-based instruction: Everything you want to know but were too afraid to ask! Symposium conducted at the 23rd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane, Australia. 

International Conference on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (Bad Ischl, Austria, May 2020) (postponed until May 2021)

1. Crowe, K., & Guiberson, M. (2021, May). Evidence-based interventions for deaf multilingual learners. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Bad Ischl, Austria. 
2. Crowe, K., Marschark, M., McLeod, S., & Walton, D. (2021, May). Intelligibility in spoken and signed languages. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Bad Ischl, Austria.   

SICLE International Conference of Community/Heritage Language Education (Sydney, July 2020) (postponed until April 2021)

• One abstract submitted

International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (Glasgow, September 2020)

• 4 abstracts submitted

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention (San Diego, November 2020)

• 3 abstracts submitted 

Here is advice from the APA about how to format these entries into our CVs
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/canceled-conferences

Artwork during online meetings

I have been delighted by the way my students and colleagues interact with their children during our meetings while we are all working from home. Here are a few of the lovely drawings their children have created for me.

"Flowers and butterflies"

"A person sitting down"

"r, F and 4"

"The Swirly"

CSU staff Town Hall Meetings

Today the Vice Chancellor and senior executive held a 2-hour Town Hall meeting for 667 people via Zoom. It was an informative, realistic and helpful meeting. Over 70% of CSU staff are now working from home and only 116 students remain living on campus. We discussed the CSU Advantage: that CSU has been working in the distance education and online environment for decades. There will be difficult times ahead - but I was impressed by the vision and thoroughness of CSU's response.