Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
I have just learned that I have been nominated for and shortlisted for the Venus International Women's Award in the Health Sciences category http://www.venusinfo.org/
 |
| https://www.venusinfo.org/research/2021/pdf/viwa2021list-I.pdf |
Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010-2014) titled Speaking my Languages: International Speech Acquisition in Australia. This blog was designed to archive what she learned and accomplished during the Fellowship. For details about the Fellowship see the original post. The Multilingual Children's Speech website was created as part of this Fellowship. It contains resources for over 60 languages.
The blog has continued beyond 2014 to record our continuing work to make a difference in children's lives throughout the world. Since this blog commenced Professor McLeod's Speech-Language-Multilingualism team has included:
Postdoctoral scholars: Dr Kate Crowe, Dr Sarah Verdon, Dr Sarah Masso, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, Dr Michelle Brown
PhD students: Nicole Watts Pappas, Jane McCormack, Jacqui Barr, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Suzanne Hopf, Ben Pham, Helen Blake, Anna Cronin, Natalie Hegarty, Anniek van Doornik, Nicole McGill, Van Tran, Belinda Downey, Marie Ireland, Kate Margetson
Masters students: Rebekah Lockart, Hang Nguyen, Vấn Phạm
Honours students: Bethany Toohill, Hannah Wilkin, Erin Holliday, Nicole Limbrick, Charlotte Howland and Holly McAlister.
Summaries:
2010, Feb-July: here
2010, Feb-Dec: here
2011, Feb-June: here
2011, July-Sept: here
2011, Oct-Dec: here
2012, Jan-Feb: here
2012, March-May: here
2012, June-July: here
2012, Aug-Sept: here
2012, Oct-2013-Feb: here
2013, March-May: here
2013, June-August: here
2013, Sept-2014, Feb: here
2014, March-June: here