April 27, 2026

On leave

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Thanks to Kathy, Tamara, Helen, Emma and Carolyn who are holding the fort while I am on long service leave (a unique Australian legislated e...
April 26, 2026

Oxford Handbook page proofs - round 2

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Over the past week Helen Blake and I have been reviewing the second round of page proofs for The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in La...
April 23, 2026

CeTasSSD Speech Census wrap up

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This week our CeTasSSD Speech Census team met to celebrate meeting so many wonderful 4- to 5-year-olds during our research. We also reflecte...

CVC2026 update

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Today's CVC2026 conference update: 302 registrations from 33 countries 32 abstracts submitted so far - closing 11 May 2026  Registrants...
April 22, 2026

CVC's Finance Business Partner visits The Treehouse

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Today Gil Burmeister, the Finance Business Partner for CVC visited The Treehouse and provided extremely useful advice and updates for Emma H...

LSHSS special issue on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Today Helen Blake, Kathy Cologon and I met to check the status of the 23 manuscripts in our clinical forum: Children’s communication and th...
April 21, 2026

Children Draw Health analysis planning

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Children Draw Health analysis planning was led by Dr Helen L. Blake and Dr Carolyn Gregoric today. We will be analysing the children's d...

Visitors from Sri Lanka

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It was wonderful to welcome visitors from Sri Lanka to The Treehouse this week: Ms Yasaara Kaluaratchi (Co-founder and Director of Academics...

Grants submitted

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Congratulations to A/Prof Kathy Cologon who has submitted two grants on behalf of the Children's Voices Centre. They are good grants - w...
April 20, 2026

Ladders, trees and matrixes: Child-focused participatory action research frameworks for children with diverse communication abilities

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Congratulations to our PhD student Holly McAlister who has just had the following article accepted for publication: McAlister, H., McLeod, S...
April 17, 2026

Launch of Phon 4

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Congratulations to Yvan Rose and Greg Hedlund and team who launched Phon 4 today (their Thursday 16th April - our Friday 17th April). https:...
April 16, 2026

A colourful time of year

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It is autumn (fall) at The Treehouse. This evening a king parrot was looking stunning amongst the autumn leaves. A few days later outside my...

CVC community bimonthly meeting - 16 April 2026

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 Today was our CVC community bimonthly meeting. What a celebration of accomplishments and our meaningful and authentic plans for 2026-2027.
April 14, 2026

Children draw health: Planning data analysis

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This afternoon Carolyn, Helen and I continued making plans for the analysis of the Children Draw Health data based on our discussion at the ...

CET Speech Census - Last week

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We are working hard to finalise our CET speech census this week before the children all go on school holidays. We have just over 1000 consen...

CVC on the CSU Office of Engagement and Enterprise webpage

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 The Children's Voices Centre has been profiled on the Charles Sturt University Office of Engagement and Enterprise: https://www.csu.edu...

CVC2026 conference organisation and scientific review committee

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This morning our CVC team met to continue planning CVC2026. We were so pleased to see that we have received 286 registrations and over 20 ab...

Working with Cathie to publish her Masters thesis

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Today Cathie Matthews and I met to begin the work to submit a journal article based on her Masters' thesis. Here is Cathie's thesis:...
April 13, 2026

Survey of the speech intelligibility in children with speech sound disorders in Northern Vietnam

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The following article has been published in Vietnamese. It is based on the Masters' thesis of Mrs Hang, supervised by Dr. Ben Pham and m...
April 10, 2026

Holly's presentation at The Treehouse

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Yesterday Holly McAlister (my PhD student) presented an excellent seminar at the Children's Voices Centre Community Research Presentatio...