June 10, 2025

Kate Margetson's postdoc is coming to an end

Dr Kate Margetson has been working with me as a postdoc for 2-days per week for the past 1.5 years. It has been an amazing time of developing the SACHL using the implementation science processes. We will end her postdoc in Greece at the ICPLA conference. Congratulations Kate on all you have achieved so far - I know that your work will continue to inspire SLPs' practice and change multilingual children's communication capacity.


Grant: Australian Commonwealth Grant Activity 4-DGEJZ1O/4-CW7UT14 - Project 8: Improving access to speech pathology services for rural children with speech, language and communication needs

Aim: To equip rural speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to work cross-culturally and cross-linguistically, especially in languages they do not speak

Outcomes against objectives:

  • Developed workshop on a clinical protocol for assessing speech in other languages: the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL)
  • Provided 7 workshops in person and online to speech pathologists and speech pathology students training them in the SACHL
  • 459 speech pathologists and speech pathology students responded to a questionnaire about the SACHL to provide feedback on the acceptability of the SACHL, recommendations for change and barriers and facilitators to using the SACHL in clinical practice
  • Collaborated with 15 multilingual speech pathologists and speech pathology students to gather more SACHL feedback via focus groups and develop language-specific resources for the SACHL

Outputs (Grants, Publications, etc.):

Journal articles

  1. Margetson, K., & McLeod, S. (2025). Multilingual speech assessment: Using implementation science to explore acceptability of the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL). [Manuscript submitted for publication]. 
  2. Margetson, K., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2025). Collaborative design of the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL) through implementation science. [Manuscript in preparation]
Invited Presentations
  1. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2025, Feb 7). Help! How can I support multilingual children? Speech assessment of children’s home language(s) (SACHL) [Invited workshop]. Central West Speech Pathologists’ Professional Development/Networking Day. Orange, NSW.
  2. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, Oct 19-20). Multilingual speech development, assessment, analysis and intervention [Invited workshop]. Hong Kong, SAR China. 
  3. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L. & Margetson, K. (2024, June 27-29). Multilingual speech development and disorders: A contemporary perspective of children’s speech development in languages of the world [Invited presentation]. 100th Anniversary Celebration of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), Vienna, Austria (online). https://ialp-org.com/event/9853/ 
  4. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, April 18). Assessing children’s speech in unfamiliar languages: Insights from Vietnamese-English children [Invited keynote]. XI LLDI Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Presentations

  1. 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). Paper presented at the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Patras, Greece. 
  2. McLeod, S., Blake, H., & Margetson, K. (2024, December). Culturally Appropriate Assessment in International Contexts: Assessing Children’s Speech in  their Home Language(s). Paper presented at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA, USA.
  3. Margetson, K. & McLeod, S. (2024, November). Using an implementation science framework to co-design and test the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL). Paper presented at the Early Childhood Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
  4. Margetson, K. & McLeod, S. (2024, May). How can I assess children’s speech in a language I do not speak? Insights from VietSpeech research. Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Perth, Australia.

CONGRATULATIONS KATE! What an amazing legacy! 


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