Invited speaker - ASHFoundation inaugural international symposium

I was invited to be a speaker at the inaugural international symposium at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in New Orleans by Dr. Lesley Olswang and Dr. Holly Storkel:

"On behalf of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation), in conjunction with the 2022 ASHA Convention Program Committee, thank you for accepting our invitation to present at the ASHA Annual Convention, November 17-19, 2022. This session, Building Research to Close the Science-Practice Gap in Communication Sciences and Disorders, is an inaugural international symposium supported by the ASHFoundation through its endowed Max D. and Ruth Steer Fund."

• Session Title: MC06 Building Research to Close the Science-Practice Gap in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Global Perspective
• Day: Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
• Session Format: 2-Hour Master Class (In-Person)

It was an excellent session with presentations from Pamela Enderby, Danielle Glista, Sharynne McLeod, and Holly Storkel 

Lesley Olswang, Pam Enderby and Sharynne McLeod

Nancy Minghetti and Holly Storkel opening the session

Conferences

There are a lot of exciting conferences that will be held over the next year: 

• Early Childhood Voices 2022 (ECV2022): 5-9 December 2022, online: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/ 
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) November 2022, New Orleans, USA: https://convention.asha.org/ 
• Speech Pathology Australia (SPA): 21-24 May, 2023, Australia: https://conference.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/speech-pathology-australia-2023-national-conference 
• International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB): 26-30 June 2023, Online/Sydney Australia: https://www.isb14.com/home 
• International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA): June 2023, Salzburg, Austria 
  
• International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP): 20-24 August 2023, Auckland, NZ: http://ialpauckland2023.org/

Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium

Last week the VietSpeech team presented two papers at the Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium (ITML5), an international online symposium accessible here: https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5. The theme this year was "Language, Culture and Ethnicity in Indigenous and Migrant Languages" Our papers are available here:

• Vietnamese language use, proficiency, and intergenerational transmission in Australia - Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Van Tran (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/vietnamese-language-use-proficiency-and-intergenerational-transmission-in-australia-1.466375) 
• Factors affecting Vietnamese-Australian children's language proficiency and use - Van Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Sarah Verdon (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/factors-affecting-vietnamese-australian-children-s-language-proficiency-and-use-1.466368)

There was another presentation about Vietnamese as well:

• Language negotiation in bilingual mother-child interactions: The case of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Singapore - Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh and Nguyen Thi Hanh (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/language-negotiation-in-bilingual-mother-child-interactions-1.466350)

DocFest presentation:

Helen Blake and I were invited to present a session at the 2016 Charles Sturt University DocFest titled: Presenting your research and making the most of the conference.

Sarah M's travels and accomplishments

Sarah Masso has just learned that she has been awarded a Student Travel Award to attend the Australasian Human Development Association Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in a few months' time. The prize includes $500 + her conference registration.

Sarah spent the past few days visiting Bathurst. We have had an enjoyable time working on a conference poster, conference abstract, and the penultimate version of a journal article.

Sarah and Kate's work with the Sound Start Study has commenced well this year. Children have been recruited in stage 1 and a number of stage 2 assessments have been completed already. The children are on school holidays at the moment. Term 2 is a busy time when Sarah and Kate complete stage 2 and stage 3 assessments to identify the children who will participate in the stage 4 randomised controlled trial of Phoneme Factory Sound Sorter. It is wonderful to work with such talented and dedicated students and staff.

Meeting old friends and making new friends at ASHA

The annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention is a wonderful time to reconnect with colleagues from around the world, and to meet new colleagues. Much of my time at ASHA is spent discussing research ideas with my colleagues. Here are a few photos of people I was able to meet with while at ASHA this year.

Brian Goldstein and Sharynne
(we are the co-chairs for the 2014 ASHA Cultural and Linguistic Diversity topic)

Li-Rong Lilly Cheng and Sharynne (at Lilly's ASHA Honors party)

Barbara Hodson and Sharynne

Sharynne, Lynn Williams, Marc Fey, Ann Tyler

Stephen Camarata and Sharynne
(Stephen has just written the lead and final articles to the IJSLP scientific forum on autism)

Sharynne and John Bernthal
(happy because we have just finished writing an encyclopedia entry together)

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Chicago

Sarah Verdon, Sharynne, Kate Crowe at the entrance to the exhibit hall

This week is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Chicago, IL. I was on the Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diversity topic committee, so was invited to review many papers earlier in the year. While at ASHA I am co-presenting 6.5 hours of technical reports and seminars including a 3-hour short course:

Crowe, K., McLeod, S., McKinnon, D. H., Fordham, L., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2013, November). Language choice for children with hearing loss: Influences on caregiver decision-making. (30 minute oral presentation). [Winner of the ASHA student prize for best abstract in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Topic]

Kate Crowe

McLeod, S., Bowen, C., Verdon, S., & Guiberson, M. (2013). Empowering monolingual SLPs to work with multilingual children with speech sound disorders. (3 hour short course)

Mark Guiberson, Sharynne, Caroline Bowen and Sarah Verdon planning our 3 hour short course

McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2013, November). A systematic review of tools to assess children’s speech in languages other than English. (30 minute oral presentation)

Sarah Verdon and Sharynne at ASHA 2013

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C. & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2013, November).  Aspirations of an international expert panel for working with multilingual children with speech sound disorders. (30 minute oral presentation).

Members of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech after our presentation

McLeod , S., Crowley, C. J., Williams, A. L.,  Louw, B., Westby, C., To , C. K. S., Washington, K. N., & MacLeod, A. A. N. (2013). Beyond Spanish: Competencies for SLPs working with children from diverse cultures. (2 hour seminar). 

Beyond Spanish seminar presenters: Sharynne, Karla Washington, Carol To, Lynn Williams, Andrea MacLeod, Brenda Louw, Carol Westby, Cate Crowely

Washington, K. McLeod, S., Devonish, H., & Samms-Vaughan, M. (2013, November).  Cross-cultural competencies for working with bi-dialectal children from Jamaica. Paper (20 minute oral presentation within a 2-hour seminar).

ASHA 2014 convention planning committee

This morning, commencing at 2am and ending at 6am (!) I met with the team of people who are planning the 2014 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. The majority of people were meeting at the ASHA headquarters in the US (commencing12pm their time). It was an informative meeting.

The 2013 convention will be held in November, so the planning for the 2014 convention is well underway even before the 2013 convention has been held. I learned that for the 2013 convention there were 2900+ abstract submissions, more than had ever been received before. Each abstract is reviewed by up to 5 reviewers - so there is a lot of work ahead.

The 2014 convention will be held in Orlando, FL,  November 20-22. Professor Lynn Williams is chairing the speech-language pathology arm of the convention. I am co-chairing the topic "Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations" with Brian Goldstein from LaSalle University. We have a lot of work ahead as we invite our committee, plan the invited sessions, review abstracts, and prepare the program

Congratulations Kate #1

On Monday 2nd September Kate Crowe presented an invited keynote address at the Australian and New Zealand Leaders in Deaf Education (ANZLDE) Summit held at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in Sydney. The presentation was based in her PhD research into multilingual and multimodal children with hearing loss.

International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics World Congress in Italy

This week I am attending the 29^th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, in Turin, Italy. There are over 900 delegates attending from around the world. 

Australian and US delegates at IALP

I am chairing four sessions and presenting the following papers:

1. McLeod, S. Educating SLPs: Building researchers in Australia. Invited presentation in seminar titled Educating SLPs: Different experiences in building researchers.
2. Crowe K. & McLeod, S. A systematic review of the outcomes of children with hearing loss who use languages other than English
3. Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. Supporting multilingual children with speech sound disorders: People, practicalities, and policy.

The following papers will be presented in a 2 hour seminar titled Multilingual children’s speech, language, and hearing

1. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., International Expert Panel on Mutlilingual Children’s Speech Multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Creation of a position paper by an international expert panel.
2. Crowe, K., McLeod, S., McKinnon, D. H., Fordham, L., & Ching, T. Y. C. Multilingual children with hearing loss: Factors influencing parents' choice regarding speech, sign, or multilingualism.
3. Washington, K. N., McLeod, S., Samms-Vaughan, M. & Devonish, H. Considerations during speech and language assessment for bidialectal children in Jamaica.
4. Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. Patterns of language acquisition, usage, and loss in young multilingual children.
5. McLeod, S. Quantifying multilingual children's speech across 30 languages: Intelligibility in Context Scale. 



Sam Harding (UK), Carol Westby (US), Sarah Masso (Australia), & Sue Roulstone (UK)

Invitation to co-chair "Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations" topic at ASHA 2014

The 2014 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention will be held in Orlando, Florida in 20-22 November 2014. Typically this conference is attended by over 12,000 speech-language pathologists from around the world. Professor Lynn Williams, the co-chair for the 2014 convention has invited Brian Goldstein and myself to be topic chairs for the  Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations topic. What an honour! We have said yes, so now the work begins. The first meeting is in September (even before the 2013 convention has been held). We need to assign a committee, invite key speakers, review abstracts, and plan a program of workshops, presentations, and posters.

Bon Voyage Sarah

Sarah Verdon, my PhD student, is leaving tomorrow to travel the world for 5 months. She will be visiting Chile, Brazil, Italy, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, and US. The purpose of her travels is to collect data on best practices services for multilingual children with speech sound disorders and to attend and present papers at 3 conferences:

• International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics conference (Italy)
• Asia Pacific Society of Speech Language and Hearing conference (Taiwan)
• American Speech Language and Hearing Association convention (USA)

Yesterday, Sarah and I submitted two manuscripts to international journals to be considered for publication:

• Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & McDonald, S. (2013). A geographical analysis of speech-language pathology services to support multilingual Australian children. 
• McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2013). A review of speech sound assessments in 18 languages other than English. 

I wish Sarah all the best for her travels, look forward to regular updates, and to seeing her in Turin, Italy and Chicago, US on the way.