August 3, 2026

SACHL research

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Congratulations to Dr Kate Margetson and Fiona Baybrooks who are working so well on the implementation science research for the Speech Asses...

Vice Chancellor's All-staff Session

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Today I attended the CSU Vice Chancellor's All-staff Session on the Bathurst. It was advertised as "This is a chance for me to upda...
July 31, 2026

Holly has printed her PhD

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There is a significant moment in writing a PhD - and that is when you print what you have written for the first time and start to read it as...

CSU Writing for Publication Program

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I am both an invited speaker and mentor for the CSU Writing For Publication Program run by the Research Office. There are 22 participants wh...
July 30, 2026

Child Language Teaching and Therapy Special Issue (2026) is finished

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy Special Issue (2026) Listening to Children with Diverse Communication Abilities Guest editors: Sharynne ...

CVC2026 and SDGs

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We calculated today that the CVC2026 papers cover all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) apart from 2, 6, and 7. What a comprehensive prog...

CeTasSSD exciting numbers

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Screening was attempted with the 1203 Kinder student cohort using the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS), a parent and educator (ICSE) r...

CVC2026 Publications Committee

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The CVC2026 Publications Committee, chaired by A/Prof Tamara Cumming met today - and decided on the book series we aim to target for the pub...

Large listening ears are not enough: How can we mature in our practices to listen to children?

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The following article has just been accepted for publication after peer review:  McLeod, S. (2026, in press). Large listening ears are not e...
July 29, 2026

Emma day

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Two Emmas worked with me at the Children's Voices Centre today :) Emma Hayes: CVC Senior Adminstration Officer  Emma Scanlon: CeTasSSD R...

It takes a villiage to submit a grant

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Thanks to everyone who has supported me to get my latest grant application completed including DVC-R Neena Mitter, PVCI Michael Friend/Jason...

ASSA Panel D (Education, Psychology & Public Health) committee meeting

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This morning we held a short meeting of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Panel D Committee (Education, Psychology & Publi...
July 28, 2026

Special issues

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I am currently co-editing two special issues:  Listening to children with diverse communication abilities | Guest Editors: Sharynne McLeod ...
July 27, 2026

International Speech Screener (ISS)

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The International Speech Screener (ISS, McLeod, 2013) is a 50-item picture-naming task that samples all English consonants and six English c...
July 24, 2026

Writing the final chapter of your PhD

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Today Sarah Bartlett, Holly McAlister and I spent an hour looking at the formula for writing their final PhD chapters (then they write their...

CSU Foundation Day: Blast from the past!

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CSU's Foundation Day social media includes a photo of my son and I in 2001 advertising the new speech pathology course at CSU! (Thanks H...
July 19, 2026

ASHA Alfred K. Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications

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What an honour! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/07/2026-asha-journals-awards/ July 17, 2026 We’re pleased to announce the 2026 ASHA Journ...

Article about the Intelligibility in Context Scale wins JSLHR editor's award!

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Congratulations to the team from Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center,  University of Wisconsin–Madison who ha...
July 16, 2026

CeTasSSD first CONSORT diagram

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Today Felicity and I worked out the first version of the 2026 CeTasSSD CONSORT diagram https://cdn-links.lww.com/permalink/phm/a/phm_00_00_2...

CVC2026: 145 abstracts accepted from 35 countries

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We have just finalised the following details for the CVC2026 conferece. Thank you Carolyn for your oversight. I am excited to share that we ...