Visiting Professor Sheena Reilly

While attending the Aphasia Camp on the Gold Coast I was so pleased to have the opportunity to visit Professor Sheena Reilly at Griffith University. She is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research). We have worked in parallel with one another for over two decades with Sheena focussing on children's language and me focussing on children's speech.

Most recently, I have written a chapter in a book that Sheena and colleagues have been editing:

McLeod, S., McCormack, J., & Blake, H. L. (2019, in press December). Communication, participation and cohort studies. In J. Law, S. Reilly & C. McKean (Eds.). Language development: Individual differences in a social context.  Cambridge University Press.

I really enjoyed our conversation about the past, present, and future.

 

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.

 

DLD terminology

Recently ASHA published a special issue discussing the terminology for children with language disorders: developmental language disorders (DLD) vs. specific language impairment (SLI).

• https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2019_PERSP-19-00184
• https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2020/02/latest-forum-from-perspectives-tackles-sli-dld-terminology-discussion/ 

 On the weekend, Dorothy Bishop who lead the research to standardize the term DLD wrote about errors in the definition of DLD that was used in the ASHA special issue: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2020/02/changing-terminology-for-childrens.html