This week the 20th conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) is held from the 24th to 27th of June 2025 at the University of Patras, Conference and Cultural Centre, Greece, hosted by Dr Eleftheria Geronikou https://logoth.upatras.gr/en/icpla2025/
There are four of us representing Charles Sturt University: Dr Helen L.
Blake, Dr Suzanne Hopf and Dr Kate Margetson - everyone has multiple
roles during the conference. Here are the presentations I am involved in:
- McLeod, S. & Blake, H. L. (2025, June). Children’s speech development around the world: A transformative paradigm shift. [3-hour symposium presentation]. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Patras, Greece.
- Blake, H. L. & McLeod, S. (2025, June). Children’s speech development around the world in 170+ recordings. [Oral presentation]. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Patras, Greece.
- Margetson, K. & McLeod, S. (2025, June). Developing a clinical protocol for assessing speech in languages that you do not speak: The Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL). [Oral presentation]. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Patras, Greece.
- Davies, A., Wren, Y., & McLeod, S. (2025, June). Understanding intelligibility in children born with cleft lip and/or palate: Findings from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study. [Oral presentation]. International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Patras, Greece.
I am the President of ICPLA so have a busy week of duties.
- Tuesday - I am chairing the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech and opening the conference
- Wednesday - I am chairing sessions, co-presenting a paper with Kate Margetson and Yvonne Wren, and I am receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras.
- Thursday - I am launching The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World, co-chairing and presenting in a session with 16 presentations from around the world on multilingual children's speech (1:30-6:15pm), chairing the business meeting, and attending the conference dinner
- Friday - I am co-presenting a paper with Helen Blake, presenting at the awards ceremony and farewell ceremony.
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| Sharynne with conference chair Eleftheria Geronikou |
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| CSU attendees: Dr Kate Margetson, Dr Helen L. Blake, Dr Suzanne Hopf, Prof Sharynne McLeod |
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| Sharynne opening the conference as ICPLA President |
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| Sharynne with ICPLA founders: Martin J. Ball and Nicole Muller |
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| Keynote speaker: George |
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| Kate and Karla with a conference fan and hat to keep us cool since it was 40oC on one of the days! |
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| Sharynne with Annette Fox-Boyer's current and ex-PhD students from Germany |
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| Presidents |
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| HDR students from Edinburgh and Sydney |
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| Helen Blake presenting one of our papers |
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| Conference dinner with keynote speaker Frank Guenther |
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| Kristian Kristofferson (Norway) at the poster session |
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| ICPLA colleagues at the conference dinner |
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| Colleagures from Poland: Agetha and Paulina |
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| ICPLA conference organising committee and students |
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| Last day: Helen, Kate, Sharynne and Anniek |
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| Spanish/USA contingent: Chelsea Sommer, Angela, Tania Flores |
