Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
October 21, 2025
Beautiful Fiji
What an honour to visit beautiful Fiji for the WHO meeting. Beautiful people and beautiful islands and oceans. During this week we have been made very aware of the impact of climate change - immediate (with more severe weather events) and ongoing (with rising sea levels) - and the importance of climate resilience as the Western Pacific "occupies the front seat of climate change" (WHO RCM76 Chairperson: Honourable Dr. Ratu Atonio Rabici Lalabalavu).



