Promotion applications

What privilege to support colleagues' promotion applications. There are some amazing people working at CSU who go above and beyond what is expected of them - with local, national and international benefits. Best wishes everyone!

ASHA journal authorship protocols

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association journals have published their guidelines for authorship published here: https://academy.pubs.asha.org/asha-journals-author-resource-center/manuscript-preparation/authorship-and-publication-ethics/.

They are an extension of the (now outdated) Vancouver Protocol.

1. Who should be an author?

"Authorship is determined by following ASHA Journals’ Authorship Criteria and Guidelines, which are based on the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) requirements."

"Naming authors on a scientific paper ensures that the appropriate individuals get credit, and are accountable, for the research being reported. As of January 1, 2020, all ASHA journals have adopted the authorship criteria recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Whereas the ASHA Journals authorship criteria were previously three in number and written such that meeting any of the three could suffice to warrant authorship credit, the ICMJE recommendations comprise four criteria, all of which are required to claim authorship: 

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND 
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND 
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND 
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved..."(International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)

2. What are considered to be author contributions? 

"ASHA Journals has adopted the CRediT Taxonomy to provide the opportunity to describe who participated and the roles they played in the development of the work. The 14 roles listed are from the CRedit (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) Taxonomy, a classification standard used to ensure that authors are credited for their contributions toward published scholarly works. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output."

The 14 roles listed in the CRediT Taxonomy are: "Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing"

School of Teacher Education Farewell Morning Tea

With the restructuring of the university, the School of Teacher Education has merged with the School of Education, and is now known as the School of Education. Today we had a farewell morning tea for SOTE (virtually due to COVID lockdowns) and to thank special people who were an important part of our school including: 

• Carol Burgess - Head, SOTE 
• Libbey Murray - Associate Head, SOTE
• Graham Daniel - Associate Head, SOTE
• Donna Bateup - Admin, SOTE
• Tamara Cumming - organiser of SOTE morning teas (and MANY other roles)

  

  CSU School of Teacher Education
  

Carol Burgess, SOTE Head of School

Donna Bateup

Dr Graham Daniel

Dr Libbey Murray

Dr Tamara Cumming

Masters students at Ho Chi Minh Medical and Pharmacy University, Viet Nam

My Masters students at Ho Chi Minh Medical and Pharmacy University, Viet Nam (Nguyễn Thị Hằng and Phạm Thị Vấn) are doing really well. They have just submitted a draft of their literature review, method and results. I really enjoy working with Dr Ben Phạm who is their primary supervisor. They are aiming to submit on 20th August - so they are nearing completion.

Vale John Bernthal

Emeritus Professor John E. Bernthal, PhD, a giant in the field of children's speech passed away yesterday. His contribution and encouragement will always be treasured.

Professor John Bernthal was ASHA President in 2001. His textbook (Speech Sound Disorders in Children) with Nicholas Bankson and Peter Flipsen Jnr. is currently in it's 9th edition, he created an assessment (BBTOP) and published many articles in the field. He invited me to write a chapter in the 5th edition of his text, and has continued to invite me to write each new addition. We also wrote an encyclopedia entry together. Every ASHA convention he would seek me out to catch up on our lives. Our last conversation was in September 2020 via zoom. He was widely loved and respected - and will be greatly missed throughout the world. Vale John.

ASHA2019: John Bernthal and Sharynne in Orlando, FL

ASHA2016: John Bernthal with Australian SLPs
Ellie Sugden, Elise Baker, Sharynne McLeod, Steph Hernshaw and Kate Crowe

ASHA2013: John Bernthal and Sharynne

Here are my blogposts that include John: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search?q=John+Bernthal

Obituary: https://www.bmlfh.com/obituary/john-bernthal

 

I love these sentences from his obituary "Bernthal crafted a rich personal life. Along with his spouse, Marilyn, he visited every continent except Antarctica. He ate an exceptional amount of ice cream..."

Keynote address to the Philippine Association of Speech Pathologists

Today I presented a keynote address to the Philippine Association of Speech Pathologists Virtual Convention titled: "EBP Approaches to Assessment and Intervention of Children’s Speech". There were over 330 attendees at the convention.

Here is the abstract: 

Speech pathologists frequently provide assessment and intervention for children with speech sound disorders (SSD) and need to draw on four types of evidence when working with these children and their families: (1) Research evidence (2) Clinical expertise of the speech pathologist (3) Client preferences, values, and circumstances (4) Practice context relating to the setting and client (Hoffman et al., 2013). This presentation will provide recent evidence about children’s speech acquisition, assessment, and intervention regarding children who speak English, as well as many other languages. Free evidence-based resources created by researchers from across the world in over 60 languages will be described https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

A proud mother

 Today my daughter had her first conference abstract accepted for presentation. She is thrilled. I am proud!

Podcast for Up and Coming Speechies

Recently I was interviewed by Hannah McKerral and Sienna McCormack, two up and coming speech pathologists for their podcast. The resulting 27 minute interview is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/in-the-loop-professor-sharynne-mcleod/id1528880071?i=1000529636429

They certainly asked some interesting questions - and I have enjoyed listening to their other podcasts exploring the lives of Australian speech pathologists. Here is their abstract:

In today’s Up + Coming Speechies in the loop episode, we are SO excited to be chatting to Professor Sharynne McLeod. Sharynne is a professor of speech and language acquisition, researcher and advocate for communication rights for all. She specialises in multilingual children’s speech acquisition and children with speech sound disorders. She has made an incredible contribution to our profession, and after learning from her books and research for many years it was an honour to sit down and chat with her. In this episode we talk about Sharynne’s career pathway, her research and incredible experiences, including presenting to the United Nations and her most current projects. This episode was a quick and speedy one, but we absolutely loved hearing about Sharynne's rich experiences and hope you do too! If this is your first time checking us out, hellooo!!! Thanks so much for listening! We are Sienna and Hannah, two Australian Speech Pathology students wanting to help educate, motivate and inspire other speech students, recent graduates or even someone thinking about studying Speech Pathology through student-friendly interview episodes. If you want to learn more about us and the direction of this podcast you can do so here. Or you can check out our most recent episode with just the two of us here! In this episode catch up after our brief hiatus, talk all about final year, beginning a new semester, placement tips n trick, speech pathology assistant work and hear from our brand new speechie hotline!! We also share some big announcements, so get listening so you know what's coming!

Communication and human rights within speech pathology

In 2019, lawyer Bill Mitchell presented a lecture at James Cook University titled "Communication and human rights within speech pathology" (see my blog post: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/10/communication-and-human-rights-in.html)

During his lecture, he cited our work on communication rights https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687 

His new open-access paper has just been published:

Mitchell, B. (2021). Communication and human rights within speech pathology. Griffith Law Review. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10383441.2021.1932646

PhD supervision at Ulster University

It was an honour to support Natalie Hegarty at Ulster University to complete her PhD and generate these wonderful publications and resources to support speech and language therapists as they work with children with speech sound disorders:

• Thesis: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/supporting-and-understanding-speech-sound-disorder-sussd 
• SuSSD Website: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/supporting-and-understanding-speech-sound-disorder-sussd 
• Articles: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/intervention-for-children-with-phonological-impairment-knowledge- 
• https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/a-qualitative-exploration-of-speech-language-pathologists-interve

Balancing struggle and hope in early childhood education

Belinda Downey, Sharynne, Will Letts, Tamara Cumming

Belinda Downey is writing up her PhD on the topic of balancing struggle and hope in early childhood education supported by her supervisor A/Prof Will Letts, Dr Tamara Cumming and myself.

Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW

I have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW https://www.royalsoc.org.au

The Royal Society of New South Wales encourages "... studies and investigations in Science, Art, Literature and Philosophy"... Throughout its history, the Society has done much to foster local research, particularly in science, through meetings, symposia, publications and international scientific exchange, and has supported and fostered the endeavours of other organizations dedicated to the furtherance of knowledge.

Thank you to Interim Vice Chancellor John Germov and Professor Christine Slade from CSU who nominated me to become a Fellow. It is such an honour to be amongst such distinguished leaders https://www.royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows

The category of Fellow recognises the substantial contribution made by residents of NSW who are leaders in their fields within the disciplines of science, art, literature and philosophy. Proven leaders and experts in their fields are entitled to use the postnominal FRSN.

This is the 200th anniversary of the Royal Society of NSW. The NEXUS Exhibition at the State Library of NSW begins a year of celebrations to mark the Society’s contributions to the intellectual life of NSW over 200 years. 

Here is the list of new members from the August 2021 bulletin: https://www.royalsoc.org.au/submit-bulletin-documents/2021-issues/378-454-august/file

 

Kate M's first PhD meeting

It was a pleasure to meet with Kate Margetson in her new role as part-time PhD student. Kate will be supervised by Dr Sarah Verdon and myself. She has been our amazing project officer on the VietSpeech project over the past 2 years, and will continue in this role when she returns from parent leave. Welcome Kate, we look forward to the important work you will undertake and share with the world as part of your PhD.

Kate Margetson's first PhD meeting - with her supervisors Sharynne and Sarah - and Van Tran popped in to wish her well

Communication and Sensory Loss: Global Perspectives

Congratulations to Dr Kate Crowe who has just signed a book contract with Routledge for "Communication and Sensory Loss: Global Perspectives". Best wishes as you compile this fascinating edited book that explores intersectionality across the world.

ABC News: Chronic shortage of speech therapists

Last week ABC News published the following article that included the reserach from Dr Nicole McGill's PhD: Chronic shortage of speech therapists: Children with language delays at risk academically, socially https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-16/lengthy-speech-therapy-waitlists-leave-children-vulnerable/100292818 

Nicole was then quoted and interviewed on ABC Regional Riff  (broadcast throughout Victoria) along with SPA’s president Tim Kittel. Nicole's segment on the Regional Riff starts at 48:00 minutes. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/goulburnmurray/programs/breakfast/breakfast/13442194 

Congratulations Nicole! It is wonderful that your important messages are being broadcast across Australia.

 

Longstanding research collaborations

A/Prof Jane McCormack and I have worked together for many many years. We have just picked up some research that we laid aside for a time - and had a wonderful meeting today getting back on track with submitting it so that the world can see it. What a pleasure it is to have lonstanding friends and colleagues who share a passion for making a difference in children's lives.

Associate Professor Jane McCormack, Australian Catholic University

Travelling the world from my home

Zoom meetings (and emails) enable me to travel across the whole world from my home. This week I have spoken with people in the following countries:

• Fiji - Suzanne Hopf (email)
  
• Germany - Sarah Masso (email)
• Hong Kong SAR China - Carol To
• Iceland - Kate Crowe
• The Netherlands - Anniek van Doornik
  
• Vietnam - Ben Pham, Hang Nguyen, Van Pham
• United Kingdom - Yvonne Wren
• United States - Lynn Williams; Marie Ireland

It is wonderful to collaborate with so many different people and fascinating to learn from each person about the impact and restrictions of COVID-19 on their daily lives.

Carol To (Hong Kong, SAR China) and Sharynne McLeod

COVID-19 test to be taken before going to work in The Netherlands

Pomodoro writing technique

My students and colleagues frequently use the pomodoro writing technique https://pomofocus.io/ . Today was the first time I had used it - and it was great. Thanks Belinda and Tamara Cumming for being writing buddies. I was so surprised at how long writing takes! 

Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has announced their 2021 Awards today https://www.asha.org/about/awards/2021-awards-recipients/. There are a number of my colleagues/co-authors who have been awarded Fellowship of ASHA this year:

•  Elise Baker - ASHA Fellow
  
•  Marie Ireland - ASHA Fellow
  
•  Karla Washington - ASHA Fellow
  

Congratulations to these outstanding people!  

The awards will be presented at the 2021 ASHA Convention in Washington DC on 19th November: https://convention.asha.org/networking/awards-ceremony/

The 2021 ASHA President Lynn Williams contacted me on the weekend to inform me that I am the first International Affiliate to be awarded ASHA Honors.

"The Honors of the Association recognizes members for their distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders and is the highest honor the Association bestows. The Bylaws describe the Honors of the Association broadly to encourage the recognition of those individuals whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the professions. It may be awarded to an individual whose contributions have been confined to a single area of achievement. The quality of the achievement and their impact on the professions are considered of greater importance than the nominee's length of service. Members are encouraged to nominate individuals who are well-known throughout the nation and the world for a lifetime of innovative clinical practice, insightful and rigorous research, creative administration, effective legislative activity, outstanding teaching or other distinguished professional contributions." https://www.asha.org/about/awards/honors-of-the-association/

This year 11 people will receive ASHA Honors. There are 218,000 ASHA members and International Affiliates come from 60 countries. To date 313 people have received ASHA Honors since 1944.

It is an enormous honour to have been nominated for this award, and I am so grateful for opportunities to serve people with communication disabilities and the speech-language pathology profession over many years. Many of the people who have shaped my career are ASHA Honorees, so it is humbling to be joining this group https://www.asha.org/about/awards/honors-of-the-association-recipients/

I recall my excitement joining Marc Fey for his ASHA Honors celebrations in 2011

ASHA Honorees Larry Shriberg and Marc Fey
with Sandy Fey and Sharynne at the 2011 ASHA convention

 

Here are the details about the determination of the award from the ASHA Headlines email (14 July 2021): 

"By way of reminder, the COH receives nominations for Honors, Fellows, and other Association awards; elects Fellows by a two-thirds vote, and transmits nominations for Honors to the Board of Directors where a 75% vote is required for bestowing the award."
Frederick Britten, PhD, CCC-A Chair, Committee on Honors
Theresa H. Rodgers, MA, CCC-SLP 2021 ASHA Immediate Past President BOD Liaison to the Committee on Honors 

 

 Profile of ASHA Members and Affiliates 2020: https://www.asha.org/siteassets/surveys/2020-member-and-affiliate-profile.pdf

CSU Research Successes

Congratulations to my CSU colleagues on their recent and significant grant successes celebrated at the 

CRC funding (Marine Bi-products and Soil) Charles Sturt partners in National Marine Bioproducts Research Centre, secured $59 million in federal funding to develop marine bioproducts for health, agriculture and biomaterials. Professor of Plant Biology in the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences and Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation member Leslie Weston is a co-leader of program three, Australian Marine Bioproducts. 

Success in agricultural partnerships continues with two Charles Sturt University-led research projects awarded almost $900,000 in funding from the Soil Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). The projects are led by Professor Mark Morrison in the School of Management and Marketing in Bathurst and Dr Sosheel Godfrey in the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences in Wagga Wagga.

CSU also has a number of Olympians 

• Kaarle McCulloch, Bachelor of Education (Health and Physical Education) student, competing in sprint track cycling 
• Amanda Spratt, University Certificate in Business graduate, competing in road cycling in the women’s road cycling team 
• Joanne Brigden-Jones, Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) graduate, competing in kayaking in women’s K-4 500m 
• Ellie Pashley (nee O’Kane), Bachelor of Physiotherapy graduate, competing in athletics for the women’s marathon 
• Will Stuart, Bachelor of Exercise Science graduate, going to Tokyo as the strength and conditioning coach for the Men’s Rugby 7s team 
• Greta Hayes, Bachelor of Nursing student, going to Tokyo with the Hockeyroos (reserve)
  
  
  Here is the new CSU Vision launched at the Town Hall meeting today
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Speech Pathology Australia Position Statement Working Party Meeting

Today we had another Speech Pathology Australia Position Statement Working Party Meeting. We submitted our position statement and clinical guidelines some time ago and they are undergoing review by Speech Pathology Australia. The previous version was titled ‘Working in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society Position Paper’ but will be retitled as ‘Culturally Responsive Speech Pathology Position Statement’ or 'Culture and Diversity in Speech Pathology Practice'.

Speech Pathology Australia has changed their processes for all position statements as a result of receiving our Position Statement. They are now going to send the draft position statements for independent review. I think this is a wonderful impact of the influence of our work. Congratulations to Dr Sarah Verdon who has led the process and the team.

SciVal Library Guide

 My research has been profiled on the CSU SciVal Library Guide. https://libguides.csu.edu.au/impact/SciVal

• SciVal - How to access SciVal (5.05 minutes) 

• SciVal - How to access a module and how to define a researcher, as well as how to create a group of researchers(7.12 minutes) 

• SciVal - Looking at an individual profile (5.05 minutes) 

• SciVal - Benchmarking Module (5.45 minutes) https://doms.csu.edu.au/csu/items/402ce2f2-979d-4d73-8370-a5258f8c2610/1/

In the Benchmarking module is interesting to see the importance of the Field weighted citation average for my data compared to Geoff Gurr's citation average (as he publishes in a science field).

Dr Van Tran's article on her 3MT experience (Published in the CSU Research Bulletin)

Dr Van Tran won the 3MT People's Choice Award in the Charles Sturt University Finals recently. Here are her reflections on the journey

My 3MT Journey

by Van Tran 

Encouraged by my supervisors, I got on the CSU 3MT train with some excitement but honestly did not expect there would be much help offered in terms of preparation for the presentation. 

I was impressed with the well-organised information session and the helpful Training Cafes with Peter Coperman and Emmaline Lear guiding us through important presentation skills. One thing I learnt from these workshops is “Don’t be afraid to try”. If you had listened to my first attempt of 3MT pitch, I am sure you would not believe I am going to win any prize! The feedback I received from Peter, Emmaline, past 3MT winners, other 3MT participants, my supervisors, family, and friends helped me come up with a message that was easy to understand to a general public and more importantly could involve the audience in my topic and feel about my research the same way I feel about it. 

Chugga, chugga, toot, toot! Four days before the Heats, I wrote an email to Jennifer to withdraw as I did not think I could prepare enough for the Heats. However, before hitting the Send button, I lay down and lots of thoughts came up. Why did I want to get on this 3MT train? For the fun, the skills, or the prize? It could be all of that, but the most important reason is to send out the message of my research to more people out there, the people who are not my supervisors nor my journal article readers but plain people whom my research aimed to impact. I closed my laptop and decided to stay! 

The Heats were another exciting learning experience. Even though I have known of lots of great online research events offered by CSU for the last 3.5 years, I was still struck by the professionalism of how these Heats were run. The legitimate and encouraging feedback of the judges, the warm voice of the MC, the kind emails from Dawn, Jennifer, Emmaline, Michelle, … to encourage everyone, they all meant a lot to me. 

 It was great to get going to the Final in Wagga. My travel was nicely organised so that I could join the event in person. The fancy venue and the hard work of the crew preparing for the event on stage and for live broadcast immensely motivated me. I love the informative and inspiring panel discussion while we waited for the judges to work. I really like that Wagga high school students were invited to come as audience. I was thinking of the wonderful future research they would be involved in to impact the life of people in regional areas as well as across Australia and the world. 

I got on the 3MT train with the aim to reach out to more people and to raise public awareness of the importance of home language maintenance and bilingualism. With the People’s Choice Award, I believe I achieved that aim. I am thankful to CSU Research Support, my supervisors, other 3MT participants, my family and friends for their fabulous company on this journey. I wanted to tell other HDR students that doing research is great but it could sometimes be restrictive in terms of communication with people out of your circle. Getting involved in different research activities including this 3MT competition is a fabulous way to sharpen your skills and to disseminate your research to a wider public. 

 It’s freezing in Sydney today but I feel great in my CSU hoodie (which has just arrived as part of my 3MT participation) recalling all the warm memories of my 3MT trip.

 

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PhD and Masters students for this session

 I am very fortunate to be supervising/co-supervising five PhD students this session:

1. Dr Van Tran - who will submit her second PhD (co-supervised with Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Audrey Wang)
   
2. Marie Ireland - who will commence her PhD by prior publication (co-supervised with Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Kate Crowe)
3. Kate Margetson - who will commence her PhD (co-supervised with Dr Sarah Verdon )
4. Anniek Van Doornik - who is undertaking her PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (and supervised by Prof Ellen Gerrits, Dr Hayo Terband and Dr  Marlies Welbie)
   
5. Belinda Downey - who is finishing her PhD (supervised by Prof Will Letts and co-supervised with Dr Tamara Cumming)

Belinda Downey, Sharynne and Dr Tamara Cumming

Anniek Van Doornik (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Sharynne

Marie Ireland's first official PhD meeting
included celebrating her birthday and being awarded ASHA Fellow

I am also fortunate to be co-supervising two Masters students this session:

1. Nguyễn Thị Hằng - who will submit her thesis at Ho Chi Minh Medical and Pharmacy University, Viet Nam (supervised by Dr Ben Phạm)
2. Phạm Thị Vấn - - who will submit her thesis at Ho Chi Minh Medical and Pharmacy University, Viet Nam (supervised by Dr Ben Phạm)

 

Our research is in the media

CSU Media has published a media release about our latest research and request for participants:

Speech therapy app research needs children in regional and rural Australia

As a result, Grace Kelly has had the following radio interviews:

• ZOOFM Dubbo (Dan Hillard) - 8 July 2021
• Triple M Orange - 8 July 2021
• Triple M Wagga Wagga - 15 July 2021
• ABC Dubbo TBC
  
• 2BS Live and Local TBC

In addition, Nicole McGill has been contacted by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) to prepare a newstory on waiting lists. It is great to see our research in the public eye.

Vietnamese-Australian children’s language proficiency and use

Congratulations Van on your latest journal article to be accepted for publication

Tran, V. H., Wang, C., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2021, in press). Vietnamese-Australian children’s language proficiency and use. International Journal of Bilingualism. 

Here is the abstract 

Aim: To explore Vietnamese-Australian children’s proficiency and use of Vietnamese and English and identify associated factors that are related to demographics, language practices, language ideologies, and language management. 

Methodology: Vietnamese-Australian parents (n = 151) completed a questionnaire (in English or Vietnamese) regarding their child’s language proficiency and use, demographic details and a range of factors as conceptualized by Spolsky’s language policy theory: language practices, language ideologies, and language management. 

Data and Analysis: Bivariate analyses (Pearson’s correlation and analysis of variance (ANOVA)) and multiple regression models were conducted to explore associations between language proficiency and use and associated factors and identify the most significant factors. 

Findings/Conclusions: Factors associated with children’s Vietnamese language proficiency (oral/written) included demographic factors, language practices, language ideologies, and language management. In contrast, children’s English language proficiency (oral/written) was linked to demographic factors and language practices. Children’s Vietnamese language use was not significantly correlated with demographics but rather with language practices, language ideologies, and language management. Children’s home language use and proficiency did not have a negative impact upon their English proficiency. 

Originality: This study is the first to consider factors associated with Vietnamese-Australian children’s language proficiency and use. 

Significance/Implications: Demographic factors, language practices, language ideologies, and language management were associated with children’s language proficiency and use. The results can be used by parents, educators, policy makers, speech-language pathologists and other professionals to support Vietnamese-Australian and multilingual children around the world to develop and maintain their home and majority languages.

Open access journal articles

 The following journal articles have been made open access by the publishers:

1. McLeod, S., Ballard, K. J., Ahmed, B., McGill, N., & Brown, M. I. (2020). Supporting children with speech sound disorders during COVID-19 restrictions: Technological solutions. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 5(6), 1805-1808. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_persp-20-00128 
2. 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. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100  
3. McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687 
4. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech. (2017). Tutorial: Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(3), 691-708. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_AJSLP-15-0161 
5. Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2155-2169. https://doi.org/doi:10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168 

Articles that used to be open access

1. McLeod, S. (2020). Intelligibility in Context Scale: Cross-linguistic use, validity, and reliability. Speech, Language and Hearing, 23(1), 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2020.1718837 Ireland, M., McLeod, S., Farquharson, K., & Crowe, K. (2020). Evaluating children in U.S. public schools with speech sound disorders: Considering federal and state laws, guidance, and research. Topics in Language Disorders, 40(4), 326-340. https://doi.org/10.1097/tld.0000000000000226 

Congratulations Dr Nicole McGill: Speech Pathology Australia's Senior Advisor Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and Research

Congratulations to Dr Nicole McGill who has just been appointed as Speech Pathology Australia's Senior Advisor Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and Research, commencing in August 2021. This position had previously been undertaken by A/Prof Corri Williams. The position has now been expanded and Nicole will be in the position 0.5FTE. Congratulations Nicole - we are looking forward to working with you in this important role.

Here is her bio 

Dr Nicole McGill is an Adjunct Research Associate at Charles Sturt University and has recently concluded a role as Rural Health Academic Network coordinator with The University of Melbourne. Her research interests include speech pathology waiting lists, service delivery and access, workforce issues, and childhood speech sound disorders. Her most recent research explored speech pathology waiting lists and waiting list management strategies throughout the world. Nicole is passionate about translational research and evidence-building in real world clinical contexts. Nicole was an associate investigator on a NSW Health Translational Research Grant (2017-2019), and was the recipient of Speech Pathology Australia’s Nadia Verrall Memorial Research Grant in 2018. She has conducted a range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research studies within speech pathology and rural health, including collaborating with clinicians and researchers to design a website and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting children and families on waiting lists via a randomised controlled trial. She has published journal articles and presented her research at conferences both nationally and internationally. Her previous academic roles include project officer, guest lecturer, tutor, marker, and research assistant. Nicole has also worked clinically as a speech pathologist across health, disability, education, and private sectors and is looking forward to collaborating with speech pathologists in her new role as Speech Pathology Australia's Senior Advisor Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and Research.