Holly McAlister and I met to discuss our CLTT special issue
Special Issue: Listening to Children with Diverse Communication Abilities
We currently have 16 papers that are allocated to the special issue:
6 papers are published online already and three more have been accepted. The remainder will be finalised soon.
- Deehan, H., McLeod, S., & Harrison, L. J. (2026). “Oh! I forgot the voice”: Comparing drawings of talking by children with and without speech sound disorder. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590261433348. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590261433348
- Gregoric, C., McLeod, S., Hopf, S. C., Downey, B., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Zischke, C., Tran, V. H., Murray, E., McAlister, H., Ivory, N., Delli-Pizzi, L., Elwick, S., Dealtry, L., & Davies, J. (2025). Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals by listening to children's voices across the globe. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590251406102. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251406102
- Harasym, J. A., Gross, D. P., MacLeod, A. A., & Phelan, S. K. (2026). They smirk ‘but you're not dying’ and other (mis)understandings about communication and concussion navigated by youth: An arts-based reflexive collective case study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590261424124. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590261424124
- McCormack, J., Cronin, A., McLeod, S., Ireland, M., Wang, C., & Tiong, C. (2025). Children's drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech: Place, people, activity, and emotion. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590251375340. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251375340
- Spencer, S., Roberts, V., Schroeter, K., & Clegg, J. (2026). Being understood: Neurodivergent care leavers’ perspectives on their own communication skills. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590251411749. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251411749
- Weir, S., Forster, S., & Clendon, S. (2026). Exploring voice and participatory processes for children who communicate in unconventional ways. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 02656590261422660. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590261422660