The Australian Catholic University (ACU) Allied Health speed sessions for May includes an invited presentation by Kate Margetson titled "Working with multilingual children: How can I assess speech in a language that I don't speak?
Kate Margetson is a speech pathologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Charles Sturt University. Her PhD research focussed on assessment and differential diagnosis of speech sound disorders in bilingual Vietnamese-English speaking children. Her current research focusses on supporting speech-language pathologists to work with multilingual children, particularly when they do not speak the same language(s). Kate is a certified practicing speech-language pathologist and has worked clinically for over 10 years with multilingual children and their families in both Australia and Vietnam. She is a director of Trinh Foundation Australia which has support the development of the speech pathology profession in Vietnam.
