June 18, 2026

CVC2026 update

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Overview: Conference to be held 1-3 September 2026 666 registrants across 40+ countries 174 abstracts from 36 countries 114 papers with 2+ r...
June 16, 2026

A new kitchen for The Treehouse

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For over two years we have been working towards having a new safe kitchen in The Treehouse for the Children's Voices Centre. We are gett...

CVC and World Health Organization collaboration

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Our CVC team met this morning to update our progress on the CVC and WHO collaborative projects exploring children's perspectives of heal...

Publication impact

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Kate Crowe and wrote two papers summarizing children's speech acquisition. Recently we learned that they are two of the three papers tha...

Orðaheimurinn Team Meeting

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This morning was the first Orðaheimurinn (OH+) Team Meeting (World of Words). Grant title: Optimisation of the World of Words (Orðaheimurinn...
June 15, 2026

Intelligibility in 3- and 5-year-olds born with cleft lip and/or palate: Reference data on Intelligibility in Context Scale scores

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The following paper has just been published. It was commenced during my Benjamin Meaker Visiting Distinguished Professorship at the Universi...
June 12, 2026

Congratulations Holly

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Congratulations to Holly McAlister who has had these papers published for her PhD while I have been on leave: McAlister, H., McLeod, S., ...
June 11, 2026

CeTasSSD catchup

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While I was away the CeTasSSD team finalised the data collection. There are 1207 students in kindergarten across the state and were were abl...
June 10, 2026

The latest registrations for CVC2026

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The latest registrations for CVC2026 are: 548 registrants across 40 countries. Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Gr...
June 9, 2026

Welcome back to CVC

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Today was my first day back at work (yesterday was a public holiday). My Children's Voices Centre team has been fantastic. They have bee...

CVC children's advisory group present at the WHO Disability Health Equity Network side event at COSP19

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This week the Children's Voices Centre Children's Advisory group are presenting at the United Nations in New York! They have prepare...
June 6, 2026

Universities

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While I was on leave I had the opportunity to visit the campuses of a few universities around the world. I did not visit in an official capa...
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...