Today is Holly McAlister's confirmation of candidature (endorsement).
Her proposed title is "Experiences of communication and speech-language pathology for children and families with Pacific Islander heritage".
In her documentation she has written:
"This research aims to build on the PhD student’s prior research about multilingual Fijian children (McAlister, 2020) to understand the experiences of children and families with Pacific Island heritage and the SLPs who provide services to them. The outcomes of this program of research will provide culturally responsive recommendations for communication specialists, communities, and families to support speech and language development of children with Pacific Island heritage."
Holly has published two papers from her honours thesis that was also supervised by Dr Suzanne Hopf with myself as co-supervisor. We are so pleased to be continuing to work with Holly as she undertakes her PhD.
- McAlister, H., Hopf, S. C., & McLeod, S. (2022). Effect of dialect on identification and severity of speech sound disorder in Fijian children. Speech, Language and Hearing, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2022.2052506
- McAlister, H., McLeod, S., & Hopf, S. C. (2022, 2022/05/04). Fijian school students’ Fiji English speech sound acquisition. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(3), 260-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2044905
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| Holly McAlister, Sharynne McLeod, Suzanne Hopf |
