Australian board member for the Asia Pacific Society for Speech, Language and Hearing

I have been invited to be the Australian country liaison for the Asia Pacific Society for Speech, Language and Hearing. The country liaison serves as a board member for each country who can support the membership committee to reach out to a national association.

APSSLH Executive Council Members Meeting

Today I attended the APSSLH Executive Council Members Meeting. We discussed issues including the delay of our conference that was to be held in Hong Kong (due to COVID-19). The last conference was held in Japan in 2017. We also discussed changes to committee members' terms of office that are linked to the conference dates. The current committee members are below:

The timezones for our meeting were:

Some of the timezones for the APSSLH Meeting (+ New Zealand)

Executive Council Member of Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing

Today I received an invitation from Professor Manwa Lawrence Ng, and I have formally accepted the role of being an Executive Council Member (Publications Committee), Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing. The Speech, Language and Hearing journal is supported by this society and I am a board member of this journal.
Last year I attended and presented at the APSSLH conference in Narita, Japan.

Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language, and Hearing

The 10th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech, Language, and Hearing (APCSLH) is being held in Narita, Japan on 17-19 September.  There are 450+ attendees from 18 countries and 82 papers and 174 posters are being presented. I am presenting an invited paper and Ben Phạm is presenting two papers:

• McLeod, S. - Identifying children with speech sound disorders across languages (invited)
• Phạm, B., McLeod, S. & Harrison, L. J. - Validation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale with preschool children in Ha Noi, Viet Nam 
• Phạm, B. & McLeod, S. - Acquisition of consonants, vowels and tones by children in Northern Viet Nam 

Keynote speakers include Dr Lilly Cheng,  Dr Loraine Ramig (LSVT),
and Dr Patty Prelock from USA

We are having a wonderful time networking with people from across the Asia Pacific region.

Vietnamese colleagues: Dr Sally Hewat, Sharynne, Mrs Loan, Ms Thanh,
Ben Pham, Sarah Day, Dr Cuong

Hong Kong colleagues: A/Prof Carol To, A/Prof Kathy Lee (with her new
Cantonese Spoken Word Recognition Test), Sharynne and Ben Pham

Taiwan/USA colleague: Sharynne, Prof. Lilly Cheng, Ben Pham

Thai colleagues: A/Prof Sumalai Maroonroge and Prof. Benjamas Prathanee

Ben Pham and I had fun at the Japanese cultural centre organised by the conference