The Children's Voices Conference (CVC2026) is a great place to be able to share the collaborative research we have been undertaking. Here are the papers I am involved in:
- Carolyn Gregoric, Sharynne McLeod, Belinda Downey, Brendon Hyndman, Shukla Sikder, Helen L. Blake, Jenny Dwyer, Kate Friere, Katrina Gersbach, Suzanne C. Hopf, Kasey Hillyar, Laura Hoffman, Muhammad Hossain, Janine Krecko, Arifa Rahman, Azizur Rahman, Mehdi Rassafiani, Goutam Roy, Lindsay Smith and Van H. Tran (2026). Children draw playing: Interdisciplinary insights from drawings from 10 countries. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Belinda Downey, Kathy Cologon, Tamara Cumming, Kathryn Crowe, Helen L. Blake and Mélanie Gréaux (2026). Children's insights about health and healthcare can advance health equity for children with disabilities across the world. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Carolyn Gregoric, Sharynne McLeod, Belinda Downey, Laura Hoffman, Brendon Hyndman, Lindsay Smith and Altaituya Burnee (2026). Children draw playing: Insights from 101 children in Mongolia. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Felicity Laurence, Lisa Johnson, Kathryn Crowe and Nicola Ivory (2026). Intelligibility in Context Scale: A speech screening tool for Kindergarten students in Tasmania. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Sarah Bartlett, Sharynne McLeod and Carolyn Gregoric (2026). Beyond translation: Cultural adaptation of intervention for underserved families seeking asylum. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Sharynne McLeod, Emily-Jane Woodhead, Sarah Bartlett, Jamie Newman, Marie-Christine Sweeney and Carolyn Gregoric (2026). “Little Libraries” for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Kate Freire, Kathryn Crowe, Suzanne C. Hopf, Sharynne McLeod, Cyrena Hunt-Madden, Kristen Andrews, Mehdi Rassafiani, Natalie Ellis, Cherie Zischke, Lindsay Smith, Lysa Dealtry, Sarah Verdon, Claudio Dionigi and Melanie Gréaux (2026). Children with disabilities’ views and experiences of engaging with the health sector: Scoping review. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Helen L. Blake and Sharynne McLeod (2026). Resources in 131 languages and dialects about children’s speech development, assessment, and intervention. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Belinda Downey, Kate Friere, Van H. Tran, Katrina Gersbach, Laura Hoffman, Janine Krecko, Joanne Grimmond, Sharynne McLeod and Brendon Hyndman (2026). Play "makes the world happy": Children's voices about play in the world. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Tamara Cumming, Sharynne McLeod and Belinda Downey (2026). Assent in action: Exploring ethical practice in arts-based research with young children. [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
- Felicity Laurence, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Lisa Johnson, Kathryn Crowe and Nicola Ivory (2026). Collaboration between speech pathology and education to screen children’s speech. . [Paper presentation, online]. Children’s Voices Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
