I am currently co-editing two special issues:
- Listening to children with diverse communication abilities | Guest Editors: Sharynne McLeod and Holly McAlister with Journal Editors: Judy Clegg and Victoria Joffe | Child Language Teaching and Therapy, in process to appear 2026 | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CLT | Call for papers: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/CLT/CLTT-Call%20for%20Papers-ListeningTo%20Children-FINAL-1733118416.pdf
- Children’s communication and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) | Guest Editors: Sharynne McLeod, Helen L. Blake and Kathy Cologon | Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, in process to appear 2027 | https://pubs.asha.org/journal/lshss | Call for papers: https://academy.pubs.asha.org/call-for-papers/childrens-communication-and-the-united-nations-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child-crc/
I have been guest editor of some other special issues that have had a lot of international interest:
- Communication is a human right: Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Guest Editor: Sharynne McLeod | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2018, 20(1) | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/iasl20/20/1 | Downloads: 47,1297 Citations: 661 Altmetrics: 1,256 (July 2026)
- Communication, swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals | Guest Editor: Sharynne McLeod and Julie Marshall | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2023, 25(1) | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/iasl20/25/1
