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
April 4, 2023
Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Early Childhood Education and Care
I was invited to be a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia experts who will write a submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Early Childhood Education and Care. The meeting was chaired by ASSA Fellow, Prof Susan Danby and included Prof Marilyn Fleer, Dr Tara Robertson, Dr Chris Hatherly (ASSA) and Dr Andi Verdich (ASSA). Prof Suzie Edwards, Prof Fiona Stanley are also on the team. We will work on this over the next month. It is a very important submission.