Establishing the Children's Voices Centre @ The Treehouse

Recently I have had so many excellent meetings with colleagues across Charles Sturt University to prepare for the establishment of the Children's Voices Centre @ The Treehouse including:

• Business plan - Pat McKenn
• Staffing - Holly Weal
• Audio visual requirements - Sean Sun and David Stormer
• Website development - Nilima Mathai, 
• Website user experience - Boram Kwon, Lindsey Ting, and Ann Emms
  
• Brand/logo - Amy Felke, Brodie Miller, Nilima Mathai
  
• Grants - Justin Williams - CSU Advancement
• Building design - Matt Newton, Sean Sun
  

ECV2024: This week's registrations and update

Here are the latest statistics

•  237 registrations from 30+ countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Canada, Fiji, France, Germany, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA 

Four keynotes are confirmed

• Prof. Tony Dreise (Australia), Pro Vice-Chancellor First Nations Engagement, Charles Sturt University. 
• Prof Elizabeth Shuey (USA), a policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where she works primarily on issues related to early childhood. 
• Professor Jenny Gibson (UK), Faculty of Education, The University of Cambridge, UK 
• Dr Tamara Cumming (Australia), Macquarie University and Charles Sturt University, Australia

Submitted

• 6 abstracts (due 29 July)
  
• 3 drawings (due 23 September)

Publications

• Two books will be published based on papers from ECV2022 and ECV2024 (Springer/Multilingual Matters)
  

New innovations

•  Special interest groups
• Multilingual presentations (in languages other than English)

ECV2024 conference team meeting - 2 July 2024

Dr Belinda Downey presented information about ECV2024
at the Faculty of Arts and Education (FOAE) Forum on 3 July 2024

Assessing Multilingual Children's Speech in their Home Languages - Professional Development Events online at CSU

This week Kate Margetson is running three free professional development events titled "Assessing Multilingual Children's Speech in their Home Languages" as part of our Rural Health Research Institute Grant. We have asked participants to complete a 10 minute questionnaire as part of the free event to provide us with information about current work with multilingual children and to give us feedback on the clinical feasibility and applicability of our new evidence-based approach to support multilingual children's speech titled Speech Assessment in Children's Home Languages (SACHL). 502 people registered - and 348 enthusiastic people attended the sessions. 

• Monday 1st July at 8am Sydney timezone - 90 attendees 
• Tuesday 2nd July at 12pm Sydney timezone - 137 attendees
  
• Friday 5th July at 12pm Sydney timezone - 121 attendees
  

Kate Margetson presenting online - introducing the SACHL

The presentation included lots of published evidence from the VietSpeech Study

Congratulations Kate Margetson on your PhD results

Congratulations to Kate Margetson who learned of her outstanding PhD results this afternoon. The international examiners were extremely positive in their examination. Congratulations!

Kate Margetson learning the exciting news from her proud supervisors
A/Prof Sarah Verdon and Prof Sharynne McLeod