November 5, 2026

Children with disabilities upholding the right to health and healthcare: A co-designed global arts-based study

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Good news - the following manuscript has been accepted for publication today. It is a result of a collaborative project between CVC and the ...
November 4, 2026

Abelist language

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 I was very surprised to be shown this article in IEEE recently - an example of ableism: "God's greatest wonderful gift to humanity...
November 3, 2026

CeTasSSD ISS analysis

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The coding and analysis phase of our Catholic Education Tasmania research using the International Speech Screener continues... Our internati...

Migration patterns in Canada compared with Australia

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While in Canada I have been very intrested to learn about the waves of migration to Canada - and to reflect on how it has often imitated wav...

Congratulations - new ICF book

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 I was invited to write the Foreword for this book - that is being published tomorrow: Threats, T. T., & Cooley-Hidecker, M. J. (Eds.). ...
November 2, 2026

Pumpkin mouths at Halloween in Canada

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 It has been fun seeing the representation of mouths on pumpkins in Canada during Halloween. One even had a tongue!  
October 28, 2026

ScholarGPS® Highly Ranked Scholar

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I received this email Dear Dr. McLeod, Congratulations on being named a 2026 ScholarGPS® Highly Ranked Scholar™. Your prolific publication r...
October 26, 2026

CeTasSSD research and pathways meeting

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Our CeTasSSD team met throughout the day to work on the data, data analysis, writing of papers, and how this translates into a speech pathwa...

LinkedIN post from CSU about our CLTT special issue

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Communication is a human right, including for children with speech, language and communication needs, and children who communicate in non-do...

RHRI Affiliates | Living Well RHRCoP

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Today I attended the Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI) Affiliates | Living Well RHRCoP (Rural Health Research Communities of Practice) ...

Staff Service Centre - new system for CSU

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 Today I went to an update on the new Staff Service Centre - a new system for CSU to replace Cherwell.
October 23, 2026

Congratulations Sarah B

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Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I were very pleased to receive the first full draft of Sarah Bartlett's PhD thesis today. What an important mile...
October 22, 2026

Congratulations Gift

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Dr Kate Margetson and I were delighted to meet with Gift Kamonya who has just been accepted as a PhD student at Charles Sturt University. Co...
October 21, 2026

Launch of the NDRP project "Children as changemakers in public libraries"

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Today was the launch of our National Disability Research Partnership (NDRP)  project "Children as changemakers in public libraries...

Guest editors working on the LSHSS clinical forum

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This morning Dr Helen L. Blake, A/Prof Kathy Cologon and I met to continue the editorial process for our Clinical Forum to be published in L...
October 20, 2026

Visit to The Treehouse by Prof Azizur Rahman

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This afternoon Prof Azizur Rahman visited The Treehouse. Azizur is an affiliate at the Children's Voices Centre - but Wagga Wagga is his...

Children Draw Playing

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In 2024 we invited children across the world to submit drawings of themselves playing. We received 101 drawings from Mongolia and 83 drawing...

CVC financial oversight

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The Children's Voices Centre's small budget has excellent oversight. I am very appreciative of Gil Burmeister (CSU Finance) and Emma...

GlobalTALES

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What an inspirational meeting with Prof Marleen Westerveld this morning. We discussed our collaborations with A/Prof Ben Pham in Viet Nam an...
October 19, 2026

Writing papers for our CeTasSSD grant

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We have allocated our Mondays to writing papers for our CeTasSSD grant. Our data have been carefully entered, cleaned and analysed - and we ...