Speaking my languages

Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

January 29, 2026

Children Draw Play reliability analysis

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Thanks to Azizur Rahman who has worked closely with Carolyn Gregoric to undertake the analyses to determine the reliability of our Children ...
January 28, 2026

Farewell Lorraine

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We are very sad to farewell Lorraine Bennett who has been the inaugural Senior Administration Officer for the Children's Voices Centre. ...
January 27, 2026

Oxford Handbook page proofs

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This year has begun with the arrival of 1500 pages of The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. Every word and pa...

PhD students in 2026

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 I am excited to be supervising four wonderful PhD students in 2026: At Charles Sturt University Holly McAlister: Primary supervisor A/Prof ...

CVC publications in 2025

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Here are some graphics about the reach of the CVC publications in 2025 - we are very happy with our reach and collaborations in our Centre...
January 23, 2026

Journal articles published in 2025

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 Here are the journal articles I co-authored with my students and colleagues that were published in 2025: Margetson, K., McLeod, S., & V...

Wonderful Children's Voices Centre staff retreat and commencement of 2026

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This week the Children's Voices Centre staff came together for a 3-day retreat to celebrate our achievements for 2025 and plan for 2026....
January 19, 2026

Mentoring Prof Jillian Marsh

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Over the next six months I have the honour of mentoring Professor Jillian Marsh from the School of Indigenous Australian Studies. Most of ou...

Back to work for 2026

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Today is my first day back at work for 2026. I had a productive and restful holiday spending time with family and friends. It was great to s...
January 10, 2026

Italian book chapter has been published - Speech sound disorders: Evidenze scientifiche e buone prassi riabilitative

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 I am very pleased to see that our invited chapter has been published (in Italian) in the following book: Margetson, K., McLeod, S., & B...
January 6, 2026

Farewell Camilla Porsanger and family

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We have loved having Camilla Porsanger and family visiting CSU from Nord University. We have learned so much, shared ideas, and had lots of ...

Hello Prof Bronwyn Hemsley

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 It was wonderful to catch up with Prof Bronwyn Hemsley yesterday while she was visiting Bathurst. I was able to show her The Treehouse, tal...
December 30, 2025

CVC collaborative research just published - Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals by listening to children’s voices across the globe

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Gregoric, C., McLeod, S., Hopf, S. C., Downey, B., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Zischke, C., Tran, V. H., Murray, E., McAlister, H., Ivory, N., D...

Scholar GPS Recognition

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I received an email overnight to say that my research is #1 in the world for speech pathology (top 0.05% in the field). It is exciting to se...
December 23, 2025

The World Children's Day recording is now available

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The World Children's Day recording is now available - WOW! https://media-studio.csu.edu.au/w/x5lAkxJaPWK http://clickemail.csu.edu.au/c/...
December 19, 2025

Happy Christmas from CVC

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 Happy Christmas from Sharynne, Tamara, Kathy, Carolyn and Lorraine

Congratulations to the CVC affilates who have been promoted this year

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The 2025 promotions at Charles Sturt University have just been announced. Congratulations to our talented CVC affiliates Level C - Senior Le...
December 18, 2025

CVC was profiled in the Vice Chancellor's 2025 message

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CVC was profiled in the Vice Chancellor's 2025 message. Thanks for your support VC Professor Leon DVC-R Professor Neena Mitter and all o...

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

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SUBMITTED  Today we submitted Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds (2nd edition) to Multilingual Matters (it was due 31st De...

Congratulations Sarah B - wrapping up for 2025

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Congratulations to Sarah Bartlett on all she has achieved during year 2 of her PhD journey during 2025. Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I had our fi...
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