July 30, 2025

"The Treehouse" has been approved as the name for Building 1451

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I have just finished a call with Briony Vogan, Director, Strategic Infrastructure, Division of Finance (previously Briony Cottam from Campus...

Children Draw Playing - Analysis of data from Mongolia

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Today was the next meeting of our data analysis team to analyse the Children Draw Playing data from Mongolia. There are a number of Children...
July 29, 2025

Meeting with Prof Jillian Marsh from SIAS

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Today Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met with Prof Jillian Marsh from SIAS to discuss synergies between CVC and her work. Welcome to CSU Prof Mar...
July 25, 2025

PhD students undertake important work

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This week I have met with my PhD students - Sarah Bartlett (co-supervised with Carolyn Gregoric) and Holly McAlister (co-supervised with Suz...

Updating Children's Speech (2nd edition) - Effectiveness of orofacial myofunctional therapy for speech sound disorders in children: A systematic review

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I was interested to read this paper as it informs what we write in the intervention chapters of the second edition of our Children's Spe...
July 24, 2025

Catholic Education Tasmania population study of speech sound disorder

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We meet weekly with the Catholic Education Tasmania team (Felicity, Lisa and Udari) regarding our population study of speech sound disorders...

Podcast interview - Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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This morning I was interviewed by Noah Secomb, Political Reporter in Canberra for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)...

Parents as proxies for children – is it enough?

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This morning some of the CVC affiliates were reflecting on whether using parents as proxies for children's perspectives is enough. Here ...

CVC research opportunity: Widening children’s participation in research

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This morning A/Prof Kathy Cologon and Dr Carolyn Gregoric lead the first meeting for Children's Voices Centre affiliates focusing on new...
July 23, 2025

Children’s drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS): Place, people, activity, and emotion

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The following paper just has been accepted for publication McCormack, J., Cronin, A., McLeod, S., Ireland, M., Wang, C., & Tiong, C. (20...
July 22, 2025

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Carolyn Gregoric shared this today from the CSU Research workshop: Impact (or benefit) is defined as the “demonstrable contribution that res...
July 21, 2025

Children's Voices Centre - Strategic Planning Week

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This week we spent three days in a strategic planing meeting for the Children's Voices Centre focusing on research with, for, and about ...
July 19, 2025

Creation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale - Child

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This morning Jane McCormack and I met - and created a child version of the Intelligibility in Context Scale by considering all of the work w...
July 17, 2025

Parent-reported speech and language in early childhood is an early indicator of Indigenous Australian children's literacy and numeracy outcomes

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The following important article has just been published:  McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McMahon, C., Wang, C., & Evans, J. R. (2025). Par...

Koffee with Kathy

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A/Prof Kathy Cologon is having Koffee with Kathy sessions to meet each of the Children's Voices Centre affiliates in her role as Associa...
July 16, 2025

Working on the second edition of Children's Speech

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This evening Prof Elise Baker and I continued our work on the second edition of our book Children's Speech. This edition will be publish...

Children Draw Playing data analysis

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At the Children's Voices Centre we have a number of research opportunities where CVC affiliates to collaborate. Dr Carolyn Gregoric is l...

Happy Foundation Day Charles Sturt University

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Today was Charles Sturt University's Foundation Day. Each year staff are invited to come together for coffee and cupcakes. It is a great...

Congratulations to Cathie Matthews - nearly finished

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This morning Cathie Matthews and I discussed her examiners' feedback for her Masters of Philosophy. She is close to finalising her thesi...

Conversations with Prof Lynn Williams

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This morning I enjoyed meeting with Prof Lynn Williams from East Tennessee State University (ETSU). She introduced me to her intern, Anna Hi...