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

Editing a new book

Our editorial team met again today to discuss the publishers' response to our submission. We have a good plan.

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

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

ECV2022 is included in CSU's 2022 Sustainable Development Goals report

Emmaline Lear (Manager Researcher Development, Office of Research Services and Graduate Studies) contacted us about including ECV2022 in CSU's 2022 Sustainable Development Goals report. 

• CSU's 2021 report: https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/267639799/M1507_Charles_Sturt_SDG_Report_2022_WEB_V2.pdf (VietSpeech was profiled on page 17)
  
• CSU's 2020 report: https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/175209220/Charles_Sturt_University_2020_SDG_report.pdf 

Here is our text that will be used in the 2022 report

The Early Childhood Voices 2022 Conference (ECV2022) was a multidisciplinary international conference held over five days by the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group. This was the second bi-annual conference to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners. The conference is held entirely online and asynchronously and is free for presenters and attendees, drawing on Charles Sturt’s motto “for the public good”. Researchers and post-graduate students were invited to submit abstracts to share their work on innovations to improve the lives of children, families and practitioners during early childhood (generally birth-8 years) or within the early childhood sector. Children were also invited to contribute to draw their story of ‘talking’ that was hosted in an Online Gallery and five yarning circles were held for synchronous conversations. After peer review, ECV2022 accepted six keynote presentations and 99 oral presentations from 25 countries, all aligned with relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Online Gallery showcased 191 children’s drawings and around 80 participants connected in the Yarning Circles to talk about topics like families, communication, children’s rights and the SDGs. ECV2022 overall participation included 1,956 registrations from 72 countries, 6,431 website views from 1,358 users, and over 3,500 YouTube views of the presentations including 243 hours of viewing. ECV2022 achieved their aim to support social justice during early childhood and within the early childhood sector across the world.

Interactive content links:

• https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/organising-committee/ 
• https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ECV2022-BOOK-FINAL-v2.pdf

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

Early Childhood Voices 2022 summary

Early Childhood Voices 2022 (ECV2022) 

Over five days from 5 – 9 December 2022, the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Group held a global online conference titled Early Childhood Voices. It was the second bi-annual conference to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, parents/carers and professionals that supported social justice and Sustainable Development Goals during early childhood or within the early childhood sector. The conference attracted 1,956 registrations from 72 countries as well as 6 keynote presentations and 95 oral presentations from 25 countries. During the week of the conference there were 6,431 page views from 1,358 users. In addition, there were over 3,517 YouTube views of the presentations and 243 hours of viewing. A popular initiative was the Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery, which enabled children from across the globe to share images of themselves talking to someone. These galleries collectively were viewed more than any other presentation at ECV2022. Five yarning circles were held for synchronous conversations between conference participants on pre-determined topics. The conference was free for presenters and attendees; drawing on Charles Sturt University’s motto “for the public good”. Conference presentations can still be viewed online https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/

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.

ECV2022 Feedback from survey

We have just compiled the feedback from the ECV2022 survey.

A Google survey was sent to all registrants and 131 responded by 20 December 2022. Overall, 88.6% of respondents ranked the conference as 4-5/5 (1 = poor and 5 = excellent). 

Respondents participated in all aspects of the conference: the online presentations, keynote speakers’ presentations, Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery, yarning circles and downloaded the ECV2022 Conference Proceedings Book.

Respondents answered three open-ended questions: 

“What did you like about ECV2022? What was good?”. There were 131 open-ended responses that were very positive. Many features of the conference were highlighted including that it was free, online, asynchronous, high quality content, multidisciplinary, multicultural, inclusion of children’s voices, opportunity for discussion (yarning circles). 

“What areas could be improved? Please provide us feedback for future conferences”. While there were 96 responses, 24 (33%) of these indicated that “nothing” could be improved. Most of the responses related to the fact that it was a virtual/online conference, navigation, and more time for discussion.

“What learnings from ECV2022 can you apply in your practice?”.

• There were 97 responses that embraced a wide range of topics indicating the attendees application to research and practice. For example “I got many fresh perspectives and ideas from the presentations and keynote speakers which I would definitely use or reflect in my practice” (78). 
• Many of the responses related to specific areas including “innovative ideas about how to be more inclusive of children voices” (81), “How to build relationships” (80), “Building Educator Capacity” (53), “lots of things about education, parenting, children's learning etc” (22) 
• Some indicated they would use the presentations to inform their research “Ethical and methodological considerations for future research” (56), “Sociocultural theory of child development” (41), “Including children's voices in research” (31) 
• Some indicated they would use the presentations in their teaching “A range - from effective presentation ideas as a lecturer to content to help with courseware development and overall practice” (57)

Demographics of the survey respondents 

The main profession/disciplines were: academics/researchers, early childhood education, education/teaching, speech-language pathology, students, psychology, social work, nursing 

The countries of the respondents were: Armenia (2), Australia (62), Bangladesh (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (4), Croatia (2), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), Fiji (2), Ghana (10), Hungary (1), Iceland (5), Indonesia (5), Iran (2), Iraq* (1), Ireland (2), Latvia (4), Luxembourg (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Portugal (1), Rwanda (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (2), United Kingdom (4), United States of America (7), Vietnam (1)

Wrapping up the year

2022 has been a challenging - and fulfiling year. I have had a lot of health issues this year - and thankfully these now have all resolved. I am grateful to the wonderful team of students and colleagues who I work with. This week is about wrapping up 2022 before I go on a month's leave.

PhD and honours students

• Holly McAlister - currently finalising her PhD endorsement for presentation in 2023
  
• Kate Margetson - presented her PhD endorsesment last week, analysing data and writing papers
  
• Belinda Downey - finalising her PhD for submission in March 2023
• Caitlin Hurley - collecting data in the dental hospital
• Marie Ireland - writing her exegesis for submission in 2023
  
• Anniek van Doornik - finalising papers on SSD in Netherlands
  
• Van Tran - graduation and winning best thesis award for CSU
• Sarah Faulks - honours student - currently analysing VLS data
  

Holly McAlister, Sharynne, Suzanne Hopf

Accomplishments during 2022

• Early Childhood Voices Confererence 2022 (ECV2022)
  
• Co-editing the special issue of IJSLP "Communication, Swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals"
• Finalising the VietSpeech grant
• Keynote presentations across the world (virtual)
• Attending and presenting at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention in New Orleans (Nov 2022)
• Editing the Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World (OUP)
  
• Co-editing Early Childhood Voices (Springer)
• Media presentations including drive time with Virginia Trioli on ABC radio, Melbourne
  
• Awards
• Publications and presentations
• Making a difference in children's lives across the world
  

ECV2022-FINAL DATA

Congratulations to everyone on ECV2022

https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/

Here are the final numbers during our conference (5-11 December 2022)

• 1,956 registrations 
• Registrations from 72 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom (includes England, Regno Unito, Northern Ireland, Scotland), United States of America, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

*Google Analytics

• 6,431 views from 1,358 users
• A total of 51 countries viewed the ECV2022 website that were registered using Google Analytics. The top 10 countries were: Australia (681 users), UK (125), US (105), Ghana (77), Bangladesh (73), Ireland (48), Canada (38), Indonesia (28), Iceland (15) and Netherlands (14). The remaining countries were: Latvia, New Zealand, Spain, Vietnam, Philippines, Fiji, China, Croatia, Germany, South Africa, Iran, Luxembourg, Belgium, Greece, Hong Kong (SAR China), Turkey, Bolivia, Finland, France, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Armenia, Denmark, Hungary, India, Myanmar (Burma), Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand, Uganda.
  
• Top 20 pages: Children Draw Talking Gallery 1 (277), Keynote 1 (261), Keynote 5 (143), Keynote 6 (142),  Children Draw Talking Gallery 3 (138), Keynote 2 (124), Keynote 3 (116), Keynote 4 (116), Yarning circles (99), Paper 224 (66), Paper 202 (65), Children Draw Talking Gallery 4 (58), Paper 265 (57), Paper 201 (55), Paper 212 (55), Paper 211 (49), Paper 278 (49), Paper 283 (49), Paper 243 (47), Paper 228 (45), Paper 272 (41), Paper 225 (40).
  
• People went to ECV2022 directly (1,402 sessions), via social media (462), by searching (192), referral (169), and other means.
• People viewed via web/mobile (697), web/desktop (640), web/tablet (22)
  

*YouTube data

• 3,517 views (1,284 unique views) - 243 hours of viewing
• Top videos: Keynote 1 (175), Children Draw Talking Gallery 1 (156), Keynote 6 (148), Keynote 5 (106), Keynote 2 (105), Paper 220 (99), Keynote 3 (83), Paper 224 (78), Paper 269 (74), Children Draw Talking Gallery 3 (70), Keynote 4 (69), Paper 289 (62)
   

*Yarning circle summary (attendees/registrations) 

• YC1 Families  - 13/65 
• YC2 Communication  - 23/67 
• YC3 Professional  - 13/50 
• YC4 Children  - 15/50 
• YC5 Children's rights and Sustainable Development Goals  - 12/47
  

*Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-1-the-world/

• 191 drawings
• 21 countries: (Africa), Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Croatia, Fiji, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
  

All the videos will remain online – so everyone is able to continue viewing the content.

 

 

ECV2022 Day 5

What an amazing conference we have held this week. Some of the world still haven't woken to Friday 9th December, so these are not quite the final figures - but they give us good insight into the reach of the conference.

1,952 registrations from 72 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom (includes England, Regno Unito, Northern Ireland, Scotland), United States of America, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe 

*Yarning circle summary (attendees/registrations) 

• YC1 Families  - 13/65 
• YC2 Communication  - 23/67 
• YC3 Professional  - 13/50 
• YC4 Children  - 15/50 
• YC5 Children's rights and Sustainable Development Goals  - 12/47 

*Google Analytics - 5,679 views from 1,233 users. The top 10 countries were: Australia, UK, Ghana, US, Bangladesh, Ireland, Canada, Indonesia, Iceland, and Netherlands. People went to ECV2022 directly (1,219 users), via social media (424 users), by searching (168 users) and other means.

*Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery - 191 drawings

This morning at 8am I supported Dr Jessamy Davies to host the Yarning Circle focussed on Children's rights and Sustainable Development Goals. Some of the comments that the participants wrote in the chat:

• “This conference has been fantastic for hearing lots of different perspectives from people from different professional backgrounds and disciplines. I've been learning a lot, thank you!”
• “It's definitely a prompt to re-read [the Convention on the Rights of the Child] as it's been quite a while since I have read them, and I don't think we listen enough to children, families and educators!”
• “Thank you very much for organising the conference. It was a great experience. It it valuable to have access to the resources after the last day of the conference.” 

Dr Jessamy Davies and Sharynne after Yarning Circle 5

At the end of the day, Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met to celebrate how wonderful ECV2022 was this week - and how nothing seemed to go wrong :)

Dr Carolyn Gregoric and Sharynne at the end of ECV2022

ECV2022 - Day 4

At 9:30am on Day 4 (Thurs 8th December) 

Eventbrite

• 1946 registations
• Participants from 70 countries Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Google analytics report

• 4,807 views from 1,102 users
• Top hits: Children Draw Talking Gallery 1 (218), Keynote 1 (210), Keynote 6 (110), Keynote 5 (105), Keynote 2 (98), Keynote 3 (97), Keynote 4 (88), Yarning circles (79), Children Draw Talking Gallery 3 (77), Children Draw Talking Gallery 4, Paper 224 (45), Paper 201 (44), Paper 202 (44), Paper 243 (43)

ECV2022 Day 3

Day 3 and the numbers are climbing...

• 1,938 registrations
• 4,008views
• 945 users 
• 190 drawings
  

ECV2022 Day 1

Registrations: 1852 

• Yarning 1 registrations 44 
• Yarning 2 registrations 41 
• Yarning 3 registrations 37 
• Yarning 4 registrations 36 
• Yarning 5 registrations 36

 Page views: 2,335 views; 607 users

Top 10 countries for day 1: Australia, Ghana, UK, US, Ireland, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iceland, Netherlands, Latvia 

 

ECV2022 final preparations

ECV2022 will begin on Monday 5th December. We are finalising this exciting event.

Here are the statistics today:

• 1659 registrations from 70 countries
• 181 drawings from children
• 100 presentations to view (6 keynotes and 94 presentations - 99 presentations were accepted)
• 5 yarning circles 
• ECV2022 participants’ countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica , Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

 

Our welcome video is here  

Penultimate meeting before the conference:
Patrick McKenzie, Sharynne McLeod, Shukla Sikder, Carolyn Gregoric

Conference co-chairs, Sharynne McLeod and Shukla Sikder
recording the ECV2022 welcome message with Kevin Ng

Final meeting before the conference: Carolyn, Sharynne, Shukla, Patrick

ECV2022 - Next steps

This week we have over 1500 registrations from 70 countries and 120 drawings (we want more!). We have 

• received the pre-recorded presentations from the speakers and have begun to upload them to YouTube
• worked on uploading the abstracts to the website
• organised gifts for the keynote speakers
• almost finalised the abstract book
• begun creating the global online gallery for the children's drawings (and chose accompanying music)
• said goodbye to Nicole Longhurst from the Faculty Office who has been an amazing champion and worker for ECV2020 and ECV2022.
• etc etc etc
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ECV2022 - Hardworking Faculty of Arts and Education team

Thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Education team members who are working hard behind the scenes on ECV2022:

• Carolyn Gregoric (ECV2022 conference secretary)
• Nicole Longhurst
• Patrick McKenzie
• Michelle Egan
• Bethany Brightmore 
• Kevin Ng
  

and also to Cassandra Dray from CSU Brand

Nicole Longhurst, Sharynne, Michelle Egan, Carolyn Gregoric, Patrick McKenzie

ECV2022 this week's registration and presentation statistics

Participants: 1454 from 70 countries 

Accepted abstracts: 99 from 24 countries 

Participating countries: Argentina, Armenia (Армения), Australia, Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium (Belgique), Brazil, Cambodia , Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica , Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai , England, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Granada (España), Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Italy , Jamica, Korea, Latvia (Латвия, Riga), Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar , Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Oman, Philippines , Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the Netherlands, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom (includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland), United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe 

WOW! 

Drawings: 36 (we really really need more!)

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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