Over the past year the research of Professor Sharynne McLeod and her team received a number of awards and opportunities to share the findings with professionals and families across the world.
The Australian Newspaper named Professor McLeod as Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology and “best in the world based on the quality, volume and impact of work”.
Additionally she was awarded:
- Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia
- Fellow of the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders
- Charles Sturt University Researcher/Research Team of the Year Award (Faculty of Arts and Education)
- Charles Sturt University Research Excellence through Partnership Award
Dr Van Tran (supervised by Prof McLeod and A/prof Sarah Verdon) was awarded Charles Sturt University Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year Award
Professor McLeod gave invited addresses to:
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Inaugural International Symposium in New Orleans, USA,
- European Speech and Language Therapy Association (ESLA) Congress in Salzburg, Austria (online),
- Third Iranian Conference on Developmental Language Disorder (online),
- Autumn Lecture for the journal Advances in Communication and Swallowing (online),
- Vietnamese Speech Therapy Education - Da Nang University of Medical Technology and Pharmacy, Viet Nam (online)(pictured)
Additionally, she was an invited representative on
- Federal Government's Education Disability Loading Review Expert Panel
- 73rd session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific on behalf of International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP).
During 2022 the Multilingual Children's Speech website (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech) was popular with 82,764 views.
Finally, she co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (Q1) with Prof Julie Marshall titled "Communication, swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals". The special issue included an introduction advocating for Communication for all as SDG 18 an invited paper by Professor Graeme Clark who invented the cochlear implant.
