September 18, 2026

CVC2026 certificates

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I just received my certificates for each of my CVC2026 presentations and the following email:  Dear author Thank you for presenting your res...

Call for priority topics on women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health beyond 2030

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This call has just been released. We will submit at least one coordinated response from the Children’s Voices Centre. Call for priority topi...

CVC2026 in WHO Disability Health Equity Network newsletter!

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The WHO Disability Health Equity Network (based in Geneva, Switzerland) profiled our Children’s Voices Conference (2026) in their newsletter...
September 17, 2026

Children's Voices Centre community research lunch

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 Today's Children's Voices Centre community research lunch was our bimonthly CVC update. We discussed: 1. Success of CVC2026. A summ...

CSU course: Supporting university staff with their mental health

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Today I attended the Charles Sturt University course: CSU Real Talk: Supporting university staff with their mental health "Mental healt...
September 16, 2026

SPAA-C lecture for Finland's speech and language therapists

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 Tonight A/Prof Kate Crowe (CVC Adjunct and A/Prof at University of Iceland) and I recorded a lecture on the Speech Participation and Activi...

Research with ICS and 2- to 3-year-old children

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Today I met with Claire Price who is undertaking her PhD at Southern Cross University with Prof Nat Munro, Prof Elise Baker, and Prof Pam Ha...

Planning to visit Vietnam

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At the end of this month Dr Helen L. Blake and I will be visiting Ha Noi National University of Education in Vietnam. Today we had a meeting...

WHO Disability Health Equity Network: Workstream 4

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Today was the sixth meeting of Workstream 4 of the WHO Disability Health Equity Network. Scheduling WHO meetings is difficult. Here are the ...
September 15, 2026

SACHL conversation: Learning from Germany

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Today Dr Kate Margetson and I had a wonderful opportunity to learn from our colleague Prof Annette Fox-Boyer from Germany about her use of t...
September 14, 2026

Cancer graduation

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I just graduated from my 8 year cancer journey. Thank you Prof Fran Boyle, Prof Andrew Spillane, Prof Gillian Lamoray, my wonderful family a...
September 12, 2026

LSHSS clinical forum

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Today Helen Blake and I were able to meet with Dr. Karla N. Washington, Editor in Chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools...

Kangaroos at The Treehouse

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The kangaroos have come onto campus for spring. We even had two hop by The Treehouse this week!
September 11, 2026

United Nations recommends the Equal Earth world map

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I am delighted that last week (4th September 2026) the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to change their world map from the M...
September 10, 2026

50 ASHA journal publications

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I have published 50 articles in American Speech-Language-Hearing Association journals. Here is a summary of these publications   https://pub...

Welcome to CVC Felicity

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It was wonderful to host Felicity Laurence, my PhD student at The Treehouse in Bathurst this week. The kangaroos all came onto campus to mee...
September 7, 2026

Royal Society of NSW - voting to increase participation of young people under 35 years

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 The Royal Society of NSW is voting on the following At its 26 August 2026 meeting, the Council of the Royal Society of NSW considered chang...
September 2, 2026

Children's Voices Conference 2026 (CVC2026)

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This week we have hosted the Children's Voices Conference 2026 (CVC2026) at The Treehouse and online:  https://childrensvoicesconference...

CVC2026 workshop - Sticks and stones, flowers and gnomes: Generative listening and the art of provocation

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Today for our CVC2026 face-to-face workshop, our CVC Visiting Scholar led a workshop titled: Sticks and stones, flowers and gnomes: Generati...
September 1, 2026

LAUNCH: Children Draw|Create|Share Belonging

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During the Children's Voices Conference (CVC2206) we had the official launch of Children Draw|Create|Share Belonging. Associate Professo...