Tonight A/Prof Kate Crowe (CVC Adjunct and A/Prof at University of Iceland) and I recorded a lecture on the Speech Participation and Activity Assessment - Children (SPAA-C) for a professional development course for Finland's speech and language therapists. We were invited by Krista Tuohimaa, Head of the Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland.
McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2026, September). Children as informants on their own communication: Speech Participation and Activity Assessment of Children (SPAA-C). Presentation for the Advanced logopedic assessment: Children and adolescents course within the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Communication Disorders in Adults and Children specialisation program, University of Oulu and University of Helsinki.
The SPAA-C is available for free here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-assessments/spaa-c
Here is the original article describing its origin:
McLeod, S. (2004). Speech pathologists' application of the ICF to children with speech impairment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 6(1), 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14417040410001669516
Here is the audience for our presentation:
"Field of specialization is: Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Communication Disorders in Adults and Children. The universities responsible are the University of Oulu and the University of Helsinki. There are 21 specialist students from the University of Oulu and 42 students from the University of Helsinki. However, they live and work all over Finland."
