I was an invited keynote speaker at the 23rd Congress of the Otolaryngology Foundation FORL https://www.congressoforl.org/. The Congress was held in São Paulo – SP Brazil, at the Frei Caneca Convention Center from 12-14 September (12 a 14 de setembro de 2024).
Here are the titles of my presentations:
- Communication rights and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
- Multilingual children’s speech development, assessment and interventions
- Children’s communication, educational, social and participation outcomes: Insights from longitudinal population studies (co-authored with Prof Yvonne Wren)
The conference website indicated "There will be more than 700 speakers from 9 specialties! In addition, we will have 10 outstanding international speakers".
It was a wonderful interdisciplinary conference - enabling rich and informative presentations and conversations between audiologists, ear nose and throat surgeons, speech-language pathologists, and other disciplines from across Brazil and the world.
I also was impressed by my conversations with the students and staff from the University of Sao Paulo. I have quoted and used much of their research in the past - and look forward to learning more from them in the future.
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| Prof Sharynne McLeod (Australia), Prof Haydee Fiszbein Wertzner (Brazil), Prof Yvonne Wren (UK), |
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| Presenting one of my three keynote addresses |
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| Dr Marilia Pereira (Brazil), Prof Sharynne McLeod (Australia), Prof Yvonne Wren (UK), Prof Haydee Fiszbein Wertzner (Brazil) |
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| Discussing communication as a human right with Dr Yakubu Karagama, keynote speaker and ENT surgeon and laryngologist from Kings College University London |
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| Presenting with Marcia Keske-Soares, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Marcia co-authored a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World) |
Here is the biographical information about me that was written in Portuguese by Dr Luciana Pagan Neves
Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D. é professor ilustre da Charles Sturt University, Austrália, especializada em fala infantil e aquisição da linguagem. Ela possui um legado de defesa dos direitos de comunicação e de liderança de equipes interdisciplinares para realizar pesquisas internacionais impactantes sobre a fala de crianças multilíngues. Ela é membro da Academia de Ciências Sociais da Austrália e atuou como editora-chefe do International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Ela recebeu honras da American Speech-Language-Hearing Association e é membro vitalício da Speech Pathology Australia. Ela é presidente da Associação Internacional de Fonética Clínica e Linguística. O jornal australiano frequentemente a lista como Líder de Campo de Pesquisa da Austrália e Melhor do Mundo em Fonoaudiologia com base na “qualidade, volume e impacto” de suas pesquisas.
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| Luciana Bauru |
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| Gifts received by Yvonne and myself from the conference organisers! |
