Children Draw Talking and Playing

Today Cyrena Hunt-Madden and I began the analysis of data to consider what children say about their talking while they are playing. This child was interesting. He said he was "Not talking. Just playing".

Just published - Children Draw Talking Around the World

Hooray!

McLeod, S., Gregoric, C., Davies, J., Dealtry, L., Delli-Pizzi, L., Downey, B., Elwick, S., Hopf, S. C., Ivory, N., McAlister, H., Murray, E., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Tran, V. H., & Zischke, C. (2025). Children draw talking around the world. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_LSHSS-23-00190 
 

Children’s drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS): Place, people, activity, and emotion

The following paper just has been accepted for publication

McCormack, J., Cronin, A., McLeod, S., Ireland, M., Wang, C., & Tiong, C. (2025, accepted July). Children’s drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS): Place, people, activity, and emotion. Child Language Teaching and Therapy.

It is one of the outcomes from our work on our grant funded by Once Upon a Time to consider perspectives of children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) who were undertaking DTTC intervention.  

Here is the abstract:

Sourcing and including the views of children in speech and language therapy aligns with Articles 12 and 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This research explored the perspectives of 30 children (3;9 – 8;7 years) with childhood apraxia of speech regarding their experiences of Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing intervention. Children lived in the United States or Australia and had engaged in one of three intervention studies exploring: delivery by their parent or speech and language therapist (SLT); delivery in high or low dose; and delivery in massed or distributed format. Children shared their perspectives of intervention through drawing a picture of themselves during intervention, describing their drawings, and identifying emojis responding to questions about intervention. Five focal points were identified in the drawings: Place (73.33%: environment, intervention materials, and transitions), People (73.33%: body parts and facial expressions, relationships and connection, and sense of self), Activity (20.00%: words, talking, and listening), Emotion (53.33%: positive and negative), and Not Talking (6.67%). Many participants felt happy about “speech practice” ( J  62.50%) and who did speech practice with them ( J  62.50%) but were divided in how they felt about the number of times ( J  33.3%) and the length of time ( J  29.17%) of speech practice. Children’s perspectives can be considered when designing and delivering intervention.

Here are two of the insightful drawings by the children involved in the project showing their involvement in intervention. These drawings will be included in the publication. Each drawing shows the child on the left and their speech-language pathologist on the right. Note the environment (table in figure 1 and door, table, chair, stickers in figure 2).

 

ACCEPTED for publication - Children draw talking around the world

What wonderful news. Our innovative interdisciplinary Children Draw Talking paper has been accepted for publication today:

McLeod, S., Gregoric, C., Davies, J., Dealtry, L., Delli-Pizzi, L., Downey, B., Elwick, S., Hopf, S. C., Ivory, N., McAlister, H., Murray, E., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Tran, V. H., & Zischke, C. (2025, in press). Children draw talking around the world. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Manuscript accepted for publication. 

Here is the short summary

200 children from 24 countries drew who they talk to (friends, family, animals, professionals), when and where they talk (outside, at home), what they talk about (toys, animals, friends, family), and how they feel about talking (happy). These insights promote understanding of children’s communication and inform how children’s insights can be included in assessment and intervention.

Here is the abstract

Purpose. The purpose of this study is to determine how children from across the world draw themselves talking and to apply an interdisciplinary analysis to understand children’s perspectives to improve delivery of services at school.
Method. Participants were 200 children from 24 countries who submitted a drawing of themselves talking to someone using the Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol. Drawings were uploaded to Charles Sturt University’s Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery. The participants were 2–12 years (M = 6.13), spoke 23 languages, and 28.5% of caregivers reported concerns about their children’s talking. A 16-member interdisciplinary research team analyzed the drawings using: descriptive, developmental, focal point, meaning making, and systemic functional linguistics transitivity analysis frameworks.
Results. Children could draw themselves talking. The participants’ age and ability to draw a human figure was strongly correlated. Most participants reported they felt happy about talking and drew themselves talking to one or more conversational partner(s), with focal points that included body parts and facial expressions, talking and listening, proximity to others, relationships and connections, and positivity and vibrancy. The cultural-historical meaning making analysis identified ten themes: relationships, places, actions, natural elements, human-made elements, cultural experiences, logical thinking, emotion, imagination, and concepts. The systemic functional linguistics transitivity analysis identified 71 processes, 134 participants, and 48 circumstances indicating richness in the children’s depictions of talking.
Conclusions. Children across the world can use drawing to communicate who they talk to (friends, family, animals, professionals), when and where they talk (outside, at home), what they talk about (toys, animals, friends, family), and how they feel about talking (happy). These insights promote understanding of children’s communication and inform how children’s insights can be included in assessment and intervention.

 
The children’s drawings are available here:  

• Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery via the Children’s Voices Centre https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre/research/childrens-voices
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXcSAl_dA7YoGpVsg-oyKe3et80WnfVl
• Submission to the United Nations: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/youth/hr75/submissions/subm-views-youth-led-cso-early-childhood-interdisciplinary-resear.pdf

200 children from 24 countries drew themselves talking

Children Draw Talking - Panel presentation at the ASHA convention in Seattle

At the ASHA convention in Seattle I chaired an exciting panel titled Children Draw Talking: Understanding Children's Functioning with Arts-Based Methods.

Here are the presentations

1. Communication rights, listening to children, and arts-based methods

Sharynne McLeod – Australia

2. Children draw talking across the world: Insights from the Early Childhood Voices Global Online Gallery

Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Suzanne C. Hopf, Van H. Tran, and Holly McAlister et al. – 24 countries

3. Children draw talking in Jamaica: Insights from children with and without communication disorders

Karla N. Washington, Nicole Bazzocchi, Lauren Choi, and Katarina Miletic – Canada and Jamaica

4. Children draw talking in Canada: Insights from children about their multilingualism

Andrea A.N. MacLeod and Jessica A. Harasym – Canada

5. Drawing together: Enabling families to talk with children about intervention experiences

Marie Ireland, Jane McCormack, Anna Cronin, Sharynne McLeod, and Cen Wang – USA and Australia

6. Children’s participation: Children draw talking is the first step

Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, and Sharynne McLeod – Australia and Fiji

ECV2024 presentations by our team

Here are the presentations from our team at ECV2024 this week

1. Children draw talking: Interdisciplinary insights into drawings from 200 children from 24 countries - Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Jessamy Davies, Lysa Dealtry, Laura Delli-Pizzi, Belinda Downey, Sheena Elwick, Suzanne C. Hopf, Nicola Ivory, Holly McAlister, Elizabeth Murray, Azizur Rahman, Shukla Sikder, Van H. Tran, Cherie Zischke
2. Building The Treehouse: A physical and virtual children’s research environment co-designed with children, colleagues, community - Sharynne McLeod
3. Indigenous children’s speech, language and communication: Identifying and co-creating resources and services - Sharynne McLeod, Emily-Jane Woodhead, Sarah Bartlett, Ebony Hay, Carolyn Gregoric
4. Using an implementation science framework to co-design and test the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL) - Kate Margetson and. Sharynne McLeod
5. Voices and visions: Engaging children with childhood apraxia of speech in intervention research- Marie Ireland, Anna Cronin, Jane McCormack, Sharynne McLeod, Cen Wang, Caroline Tiong
6. Adaptation of the Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol for collecting children’s experiences of play - Carolyn Gregoric, Shukla Sikder, Suzanne C. Hopf, and Sharynne McLeod
7. “Absolutely cuddled out” – Building personal resources to build retention - Belinda Downey, Will Letts, Leanne Gibbs, and Sharynne McLeod
8. Caregiver implemented intervention for early communication development: A review of evidence for Hanen® programs - Sarah Bartlett and Sharynne McLeod
9. Children on Australian university campuses: A rapid review of internal policies, guidelines, and procedures - Carolyn Gregoric, Sharynne McLeod, Suzanne C. Hopf, and Claudio Dionigi
10. Multilingual children’s speech development - Sharynne McLeod and Helen L. Blake
11. Children’s speech development: English (Australian) - Sharynne McLeod and Helen L. Blake
12. Children’s speech development: English (Fiji) - Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Paul A. Geraghty, Sharynne McLeod
13. Children’s speech development: English + Vietnamese - Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, Sarah Verdon, Ben Phạm 
14. Children's speech development: Cantonese - Carol Kit Sum To, Pamela Cheung, Sharynne McLeod
    
15. Children’s speech development: Vietnamese - Ben Phạm, Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, Sarah Verdon - https://multilingual-childrens-speech-development.csu.domains/ecv2024-570/

Presenting two papers at the International Conference on Sustainable Development 2024

The 12th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD2024) https://ic-sd.org/ is being held 19-21 September 2024 in New York and online. The website states:

"The theme of the 2024 ICSD is “Solutions for the Future”. The aim of the conference is to bring together persons involved in research, policy, practice, and business, in advance of the 2024 United Nations Summit of the Future. Participants will share practical solutions for achieving the SDGs at local and national levels."

We are presented two papers:

• Listening to children's communication: Partnership for the Goals (SDG 17) - Presented by Carolyn Gregoric and Belinda Downey on behalf of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group - Session 1B Children, youth and the future of the SDGs. 
  
• Communication for all: Amplifying all voices for SDG achievement - Sharynne McLeod & Julie E. Marshall - Session 1C Intergenerational dialogues to improve policy and accountability at all levels of governance
  

They are available on the SDSN YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Bwtrg9IpDnypQ7t_jjAYQ

Here is information about ICSD from their website (https://ic-sd.org/about/):

"The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) provides a forum for academia, government, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector to come together to share practical solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."

"ICSD is the top academic international conference for discussing sustainable development issues. The parallel sessions include over 300 oral and poster presentations from researchers and development practitioners from across the world, presenting their work on topics ranging from gender equity to climate change to economic development, all focused on solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, ICSD’s plenaries allow participants to hear thought provoking speeches and conversations from leaders in the field of sustainable development. Speakers and panelists include heads of state, UN officials, CEOs, economists, and university professors. ICSD is a truly global event with programming that spans across all time zones and welcomes participants from all across the world – 149 countries in 2020 to be exact! Side events offer participants additional opportunities to meet with fellow participants, explore specific topics with more detail, and learn something new."

Session chairs and presenters in Session 1C
"Intergenerational dialogues to improve policy and accountability at all levels of governance"

More information about my session

1C Intergenerational dialogues to improve policy and accountability at all levels of governance

Chairs: Patrick Paul Walsh, University College Dublin; Enda Murphy, University College Dublin; Aparajita Banerjee, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

"Intergenerational dialogues bring together individuals of different age groups, and can be used to achieve numerous objectives, including improved governance. This session seeks case studies and analyses of how intergenerational dialogue can improve processes such as agenda setting, implementation, and follow up and review. The ambition is to change the discount rate, which prioritizes today over the future. Planning and implementation should embody future generations’ welfare across all policy dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) at all levels of governance."

SUBMITTED - Two papers for the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD)

Today I submitted two 9 page papers for the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD). Our abstracts were accepted for presentation some time ago, and today was the submission date for the full papers. The conference will be held in September. Our papers are titled: 

• Communication for all: Amplifying all voices for SDG achievement 
• Listening to children’s communication: Partnership for the goals (SDG17)

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference

Our team is in Perth this week for the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Here are our presentations:

1. How can I assess children’s speech in a language I do not speak? Insights from VietSpeech research - Kate Margetson and Sharynne McLeod
2. Assessing the language skills of multilingual Vietnamese-Australian children - Sarah Faulks, Sarah Verdon and Sharynne McLeod
3. Caregivers’ insights into supporting late talkers using Target Word™ Hanen Program® for parents  - Sarah Bartlett and Sharynne McLeod
4. Supporting 2-yearold’s communication: Collaborations between rural health professionals and early childhood education services - Cathie Matthews, Sharynne McLeod, et al.
5. Children Draw Talking: Insights from 200 children from 24 countries - Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Jessamy Davies, Lysa Dealtry, Laura Delli-Pizzi, Belinda Downey, Sheena Elwick, Suzanne C. Hopf, Nicola Ivory, Holly McAlister, Elizabeth Murray, Azizur Rahman, Shukla Sikder, Van H. Tran, Cherie Zischke, Julian Grant
6. International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP): Making global and professional connections - Brian B. Shulman, Sharynne McLeod and Emily Hunt
   

Sharynne presenting Cathie Matthews' research

SLM team at SPA2024 - Sarah F, Kate M, Sharynne, Sarah B, Emily-Jane

Sarah Faulks presenting her honours research

Sarah Bartlett

Kate Margetson introducing the SACHL

Some attendees at the IALP session

IALP president Brian Shulman, Emily Hunt, Sharynne McLeod

Kate Margetson

Sharynne presenting about the Children Draw Talking research

ECIR bio for Research Office website

The Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group will be profiled on the Research Office website:

The Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR) conducts transformative research promoting social justice for children, families and practitioners. This group brings together a critical mass of interdisciplinary early childhood researchers (academics, adjuncts, HDR students) to build research capacity, establish and expand collaborations, and support funding application success. The group cultivates a positive collegial environment to develop the full potential of researchers at all stages of their careers.
The ECIR team recently have published the Springer book: Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals https://link.springer.com/book/9783031564833. Additionally, ECIR founded the successful Early Childhood Voices Conference hosting ~ 2,000 online registrations during ECV2020 and ECV2022. The conference will be held again in 2024. The ECV2022 Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery included drawings from 200 children from 24 countries. These children’s insights were shared with the United Nations: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/youth/hr75/submissions/subm-views-youth-led-cso-early-childhood-interdisciplinary-resear.pdf. Acknowledging these and other initiatives, ECIR won a CSU Research Excellence (RED) Award in 2023.
Reflecting this expertise, Charles Sturt University earned an ERA rating of “above world standard” for Field of Research 1301 Education Systems, which encompasses early childhood education, and 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, which encompasses creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy, curriculum and pedagogy theory and development, mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy.
ECIR is currently funded by the Charles Sturt University Sturt Scheme and will transform into the International Children’s Research and Communication Centre in 2025. Learn more https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-interdisciplinary-research-group

Once Upon a Time - Children's perspectives of DTTC intervention - Data are arriving

Our Once Upon a Time - Children's perspectives of DTTC intervention research team met today and had the first look at some of the submitted data. What a great milestone!

A/Prof Jane McCormack, Prof Sharynne McLeod, Dr Marie Ireland, Dr Anna Cronin

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme Research Impact

What do you get when you create a Charles Sturt research group with an agreed focus to make the world better for children? The answer is a lot of research impact. The Sturt Scheme funded Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) group is a great example of how CSU supports active and quality interdisciplinary collaboration between new and experienced researchers to foster research excellence. 

• ECIR https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/ 

• ECIR Research Outputs https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-interdisciplinary-research-group 

Children Draw Talking: 

ECIR members have collected 200 children’s drawings from over 20 countries as part of the Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022) conference as a springboard for advocacy and research output. Together 16 members of the group analysed the 200 drawings using frameworks from education, speech pathology and linguistics. The project team recently shared their findings at a 1-hr symposium presented at the 2024 Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC) conference in February. The presentation stimulated excellent discussion amongst participants. Currently, journal articles reporting on the drawing analysis protocol and analyses outcomes are underway and have submitted a manuscript to a Q1 journal. 

• Gallery 1: The World https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-1-the-world/ 

• Gallery 2: Indonesia https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-2-indonesia/ 

• Gallery 3: Australia https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-3-australia/ 

• Gallery 4: Australia https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-4-australia/ 

United Nations Human Rights 75 Youth Declaration: 

Another exciting outcome from ECV2022 was an ECIR team response to the United Nations’ call for views of youth-led and youth-focused organizations and institutions on the future of human rights for the development of the Human Rights 75 Youth Declaration.. Their ECIR group submission can be accessed on the United Nations’ website here: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/youth/hr75/submissions/subm-views-youth-led-cso-early-childhood-interdisciplinary-resear.pdf 

Early Childhood Voices (Springer): 

Following on from the internationally successful Early Childhood Voices Conferences in 2020 and 2022 (ECV2020 and ECV2022) members of ECIR have co-edited and co-authored a book to be published by Springer in 2024 that brings together professionals across multiple disciplines from 17 countries. 

Mahony, L., McLeod, S., Salamon, A., Dwyer, J. (Eds.) (in press). Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031564833 

Here are some of the reviews: "Voice has been explored in early childhood before, but the focus of this book from a social justice perspective contextualizes voice work in a powerful way." "The interdisciplinary nature of the book is to be commended!" "The images of children and drawings by children bring the book to life and are a wonderful addition." "The book also tackles head on the diversity of experience and culture. It moves away from a privileged perspective on voice work and includes many chapters on complexity and challenges in life" 

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024): 

Looking ahead, the ECIR group have begun planning the Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024), which will run from 25-28 November 2024. So start thinking about presenting your research with children. Abstract submissions are open from 22 April 2024 - 29 July 2024. The ECIR team will once again look to collect children’s views – this year the focus will be on how children experience play and how they see play as essential to creating a better world. 

Apply to join ECIR: If advocating for the rights of children drives your research activities consider sending an email Expression of Interest and your CV explaining why you would be a good addition to the ECIR group to ECIR@csu.edu.au. Charles Sturt University staff and students are welcome to apply.

ECIR Children Draw Talking - Last official meeting

This afternoon was the last official meeting of the ECIR Children Draw Talking team before we submit our manuscript at the ECIR Research Retreat on 9th October. 

This research was undertaken by members of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group funded by the Charles Sturt University Sturt Scheme. The following people contributed to the research and analysed the data: Jessamy Davies, Lysa Dealtry, Laura Delli-Pizzi, Belinda Downey, Sheena Elwick, Julian Grant, Carolyn Gregoric, Suzanne C. Hopf, Nicola Ivory, Holly McAlister, Sharynne McLeod, Elizabeth Murray, Azizur Rahman, Shukla Sikder, Van H. Tran, and Cherie Zischke. The Children Draw Talking Around the World Global Online Gallery was profiled at the Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022) https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-1-the-world/.

Carolyn Gregoric, Sharynne McLeod, Cherie Zischke, Suzanne Hopf, Nicola Ivory, Jessamy Davis, Libbey Murray, Belinda Downey, and Van Tran

Here is how we will reference our journal article once we submnit it: McLeod, S., Gregoric, C., Davies, J., Dealtry, L., Delli-Pizzi, L., Downey, B., Elwick, S., Hopf, S. C., Ivory, N., McAlister, H., Murray, E., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Tran, V. H., Zischke, C., & Grant, J. (2023). Children draw talking around the world [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group, Charles Sturt University.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 next year

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 next year. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has put out a Call for input: Views of youth-led and youth-focused organizations and institutions on the future of human rights for the development of the Human Rights 75 Youth Declaration https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2023/call-input-views-youth-led-and-youth-focused-organizations-and-institutions

Our team has done a lot of work on Article 19 of the UDHR.

Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers 

As part of our recent Early Childhood Voices conference we asked children across the world to draw themselves talking to someone. We listened to 200 hundred children (2-12 years) from 20+ countries (Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Croatia, Fiji, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Latvia, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam). Their drawings are displayed in four Children Draw Talking Global Online Galleries. The majority of children (79%) felt happy about talking, 8% felt unsure, 1.5% felt sad, and some did not respond or said another feeling. The children drew themselves talking to a friend (22%), their mother (16%), father (14%), animals (9%), siblings (9%), other family members (5%), and teacher/speech pathologist (4%) (some unable to be classified). Parents of 28.5% of children had concerns about how their child talked or made speech sounds (similar to the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, McLeod & Harrison, 2009). 

The Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme at Charles Sturt University have put together a submission to the United Nations where children have provided “recommendations to decision and policymakers, including … the United Nations, and others, to advance human rights in the future”. 

A few years ago we documented communication as a human right in the special issue of IJSLP (free online). The lead article summarizing the special issue is here: 

McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687 

We took this special issue to the United Nations in 2019.

Recently, we have published a special issue demonstrating how communication is central to the Sustainable Development Goals (free online). The lead article summarizing the special issue is here: 

McLeod, S., & Marshall, J. (2023). Communication for all and the Sustainable Development Goals. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2160494 

I have been encouraging my colleagues fro across the world to engage with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  

Also, see Dr Suzanne Hopf reading Article 19 from Fiji - https://youtu.be/XlfonR_aQaQ. Her video is included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Multilingual Video Collection https://www.un.org/en/udhr-video/curated.shtml.

References 

Mahony, L., McLeod, S., Salamon, A., Dwyer, J. (Eds.) (in press). Early childhood voices: Children, families, professionals. Springer Nature. 

McCormack, J., McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., & Holliday, E. L. (2022). Drawing talking: Listening to children with speech sound disorders. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 53(3), 713-731. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_LSHSS-21-00140 

McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687

McLeod, S., & Marshall, J. (2023). Communication for all and the Sustainable Development Goals. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2160494

Children draw talking across the world

The first meeting of our "Children draw talking across the world" team was held today. We are planning to undertake a descriptive analysis of the amazing drawings submitted to ECV2022 in our Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery.

CSU News - Children Draw Talking

Today CSU News published a story about our request for children to draw talking

https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/children-everywhere-invited-to-draw-talking-for-a-university-conference

Children from across the world are invited to “draw a picture of you talking to someone” and answer a few quick questions Drawings will be displayed at the Early Childhood Voices 2022 Global Online Gallery Submit by 7 Nov 2022: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/go/22-drawing

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Announcement: Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery

We announced the Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery today. http://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/go/22-drawings