April 10, 2025

IALP Honoured Member Award

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I have just received this welcome news that I will receive the IALP Honoured Member Award from the International Association of Communicatio...

Congratulations Dr Jenny Dwyer

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Congratulations to my colleague who has just learned that her PhD has been accepted and that she will graduate as Dr Jenny Dwyer soon. Jenny...

Oceania and Global Indigenous Research Hub Info Session

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This morning I attended the first information session for the Oceania and Global Indigenous Research Hub at Charles Sturt University. What a...
April 8, 2025

Nord University presentation - Children Draw Talking

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This afternoon I presented a paper to Nord University colleagues about our Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery. Here are the resourc...

Children's Voices Centre - welcome to new members

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We had a wonderful meeting welcoming new affiliates to the Children's Voices Centre (CVC). We now have over 60 people from Charles Sturt...

Impact - ContinuEd is offering textbook training using our book

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We just received the following email from our publishers - Paul H. Brookes. "ContinuEd, an online continuing education unit (CEU) platf...
April 7, 2025

Visitor to CVC - Lucy Rodgers - Wellcome funded clinical PhD fellowship

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This week we have welcomed Lucy Rodgers to the Children's Voices Centre. Lucy's visit is supported by her Wellcome funded clinical P...

Breakfast Club and books!

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We received this email from our research partners "We posted the following text on our socials with the attached photos." Breakfas...
April 3, 2025

Speech pathology screening clinic at OAMS

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Today, as part of our RHRI research, Sarah Bartlett, Emily-Jane Woodhead and I (3 speech pathologists) worked alongside Katrina and Tegan f...
April 2, 2025

Research productivity

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What a joy it is to work closely with Dr Helen Blake. We are so productive on so many different aspects of our research. Thank you Helen.
April 1, 2025

SACHL focus group

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Thank you so much to the informative and knowledgeable members of our focus group who have provided helpful advice about the development of ...
March 28, 2025

Rotary eClub of Brindabella

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Last night I spoke to members of the Rotary eClub of Brindabella at the invitation of president, Dr Travis Holland. ( https://rotarye-clubof...
March 27, 2025

Just published

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van Doornik, A., Welbie, M., McLeod, S., Gerrits, E., & Terband, H. (2025). Speech and language therapists’ insights into severity of sp...
March 26, 2025

UN Youth forum at CSU

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This morning I had the privilege of welcoming the UN Youth forum to Bathurst to speak with high school students across the region. I had the...
March 25, 2025

Review of children's perspectives of health and healthcare

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This morning our team met with the CSU librarian Claudio Dionigi to plan our search strategy for our systematic/scoping review for our proje...
March 24, 2025

Preparing for our SACHL shortcourse

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Today Kate Margetson and I met with the DLT team to discuss the development of our SACHL shortcourse. Nik Chalkaranje and Adam Lavelle were ...

Editorial board membership

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It is my pleasure to be on the editorial board of the following journals: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology [Q1] Clinical L...
March 21, 2025

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia - Panel D Fellowship Committee meeting

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Today was my first meeting on the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) - Panel D Fellowship Committee meeting. We considered c...
March 18, 2025

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Patras, Greece

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Today I received the following invitation to accept an invitation to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Patras, Greece....

Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds (2nd edition)

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Today Helen, Kate and I met to keep working on our book "Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds (2nd edition)". We h...