OUAT - publication preparation

Our Once Upon a Time grant data collection is finished - and today we met to continue working on the data analysis, publications and presentations from this important work.

Sharynne, Jane McCormack, Anna Cronin

Once Upon A Time Foundation meeting in Fort Worth, TX

Today I attended a meeting at the Once Upon A Time Foundation Fort Worth, TX to discuss our grant to consider children's perspectives of speech intervention for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). It was a very collegial meeting to ensure high quality research is undertaken as part of their large-scale CAS intervention research agenda.

Child Perspectives of DTTC Study

I was excited to receive an email this morning to indicate that we have been funded to undertake a study with the Once Upon a Time Foundation in the US to undertake a study titled "Child Perspectives of DTTC Study". The grant will be led by Dr Anna Cronin and A/Prof Jane McCormack from ACU with in partnership with myself and CSU. This is an exciting study.

Exciting conversations

Dr Anna Cronin, A/Prof Jane McCormack (ACU) and I are having exciting conversations with the Once Upon a Time Foundation about listening to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) who are receiving speech intervention.

IALP Child Speech Committee Online Panel: Terminology in Child Speech Sound Disorder

This morning was the IALP Child Speech Committee Online Panel: Terminology in Child Speech Sound Disorder. This second panel was titled: 

SSD and CAS – How should motor planning disorders be classified in children? 

• Professor Susan Rvachew from McGill University in Montreal, Canada 
• Professor Tricia McCabe from the University of Sydney, Australia 
• Dr Edwin Maas from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA 
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    I am the Deputy Chair of the IALP Child Speech Committee.