ECIR at 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)

Members of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme attended the 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) in Auckland New Zealand. https://ialpauckland2023.org/. There were 1000 delegates from 48 countries in attendance.  Members who were present included: • Prof Sharynne McLeod • Dr Suzanne Hopf • A/Prof Sarah Verdon • Kate Margetson • Holly McAlister • Caitlin Slaney • Josephine Bampoe • Dr Laura Hoffman • Dr Helen Blake • A/Prof Ben Pham (from Vietnam).

Each of the ECIR members presented papers, workshops, chaired sessions and networked. ECIR and CSU presentations included: 

1. Children’s speech development across the world: Sharynne McLeod & Helen Blake (co-ordinators) 
2. Fiji English children’s speech development Holly McAlister, Australia: Suzanne Hopf, Paul A. Geraghty, Fiji; Sharynne McLeod, Australia 
3. Vietnamese + English children’s speech development: Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Van H. Tran, Australia; Ben Phạm, Vietnam 
4. Speech-language pathology and its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Sharynne McLeod & Julie Marshall 
5. Listening to children’s voices in the Pacific: Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Sharynne McLeod 
6. Cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual children’s speech: Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon 
7. Dental extractions and children’s speech: Caitlin Hurley, Robert, Sharynne McLeod 
8. Intelligibility and speech accuracy of Vietnamese-speaking children suspected to speech sound disorders: Ben Phạm et al. 
9. Developing normative data for The Vietnamese Language Assessment (VLA) for four-year-old children in Thua Thien Hue - Thi Thu Hang Dang, Sarah Verdon, Ben Pham
10. SLTs’ current practices and challenges for treating children with communication disorders across three Southeast Asian countries - Smith, G., Verdon, S., Chu, S. Y., Razak, R., Chow, D., Ruzli, Y.A., Pham, B., Triantoro, H. & Garraffa, M.
11. Evaluation of Vietnam’s first speech and language therapy degrees: perspectives of multiple stakeholders - Em Prof Lindy McAllister, A/Prof Sally Hewat, Dr Adriana Penman, A/Prof Sarah Verdon, Dr Van Tran, Ms Thuy Thi Thanh Nguyen, Dr Dung Pham, Dr Marie Atherton, Dr Gwendalyn Webb, Ms Joanne Walters
12. Validity and reliability of the Vietnamese version of the UTBAS-6 scale on adults who stutter - Hanh Tran Thi Bich, Nguyen Do, Laura Hoffman, Rachael Unicomb, Sally Hewat
13. Understanding engagement in community activities for children with and without disabilities - Caitlin Slaney, Judith Crockett & Catherine Easton
14. A qualitative systematic review of speech-language pathologists’ practice with people from humanitarian migrant backgrounds - Sarah Verdon & Olivia Clark
15. Social justice in action in speech-language pathology: Exploring sustainable and culturally responsive international development through the first university degrees in Vietnam - Sarah Verdon, Sally Hewat, Lindy McAllister, Adriana Penman, Van Tran, Marie Atherton, Gwendalynn Webb, Joanne Walters
16. Creating a culturally and linguistically responsive evidence base for Cambodian speech-language pathology: Lessons from emerging research - Cathy Easton, Ruth Bryce, & Chenda Net
    

Additionally, Sharynne McLeod was the Chair of the Child Speech Committee and on the IALP Executive Board.