Tonight I was interviewed by Bec Malcolm for the CSU "SPH512 Meet and Greet with Prof Sharynne McLeod". What a great group of people. We ended up chatting for over 90 minutes!
Here are the questions they asked in advance:
SPEECH PATHOLOGY PROFESSION
- 1. Where do you feel there is the greatest opportunity for influence as the speech pathology profession?
- 2. It seems that speech pathology is a relatively young (and fast growing) discipline. What are the biggest changes you’ve seen? What do you envisage over the next 10 or 20 years?
- 3. What is the biggest challenge that speech pathology is currently facing as a profession in your eyes? And how do you think we should look to overcome or address it?
- 4. You work with and train both teachers and SLPs. Many of us are coming to SLP from an education background. What do you think are the most important things for us to know if that’s us - e.g. any specific challenges that brings etc.
CHILDREN’S SPEECH TEXTBOOK
- 5. What was/is your vision for how "Children's Speech" is to be used by students and practising speech pathologists? To be read from cover to cover? Using the index to look up certain specific sections? To look up very specific information? Something else?
- 6. I truly admire your dedication to evidence-based practice and rigor. The Children’s Speech seems like a very thorough textbook. But it was sometimes difficult to see the forest for the trees reading through different conflicting studies, e.g. risk factors for SSDs in ch.1. What is your best advice for students reading these sorts of parts of the book?
- 7. What do you look for when choosing toys for assessment and intervention tasks? What are some of your favourites?
- 8. When do you expect the next edition of your text book to be published? 9. What are the key updates you plan on making to the textbook that might be helpful for us to know for our studies now?
