Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (31 May-3 June 2021)

The Speech Pathology Australia National Conference was postponed from being held in Darwin in 2020 and is running as an online event from 31 May-3 June 2021. The conference platform was made live earlier so that people had time to view the presentations in advance of the conference.

Here are our presentations:

1. McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2021, May-June). A cross-linguistic review of studies of 49,000 children’s consonant acquisition and intelligibility. [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
2. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Margetson, K., Tran, V. H., Wang, C., & Pham, B. (2021, May-June). Vietnamese-Australian adults’ and children’s productions of English and Vietnamese consonants to support differential diagnosis. [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
3. Margetson, K., McLeod, S., Tran, V. T., Verdon, S., To, L., Huynh, K. (2021, May-June). Speech assessment for multilingual children: Transcription of bilingual Vietnamese-English children and adults. [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
4. Brown, M. I. & McLeod, S. (2021, May-June). Books, babies, and therapy: Speech-language pathologists’ perspectives and practices. [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
5. Cronin, A., Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. (2021, May-June). Beyond the medical model: Listening to families raising toddlers with cleft palate. [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
6. McGill, N., McLeod, S., Crowe, K., & Hopf, S. C. (2021, May-June). Waiting list management strategies for speech pathologists: Summary of evidence [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
7. McAlister, H, Hopf, S.C., & McLeod (2021, May-June). The impact of dialect on Fijian children’s acquisition of English speech sounds [Paper presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
8. Verdon, S., McLeod, S., Tran, V. H., & Margetson, K., (2021, May-June). Supporting children’s global voices in local contexts: International experts’ recommendations for home language maintenance. [Poster presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia. 
9. Margetson, K., McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Tran, V. H., & Wang, C., (2021, May-June). Speech sound disorder or cross-linguistic transfer? Speech profiles of four Vietnamese-English bilingual children. [Poster presentation online]. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, Australia.  

Dr Sarah Verdon presenting her workshop (Wed pm)