ICPLA 2021

This week is the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference. It was meant to be held in Glasgow in 2020, but was postponed due to COVID restrictions. The 2021 conference is entirely online. There are over 200 delegates, 140 posters and ~ 40 oral presentations.

Our team are presenting the following papers (live - so the timezone differences between Glasgow (listed below) and Bathurst are fun to navigate): 

1. Transcribing Multilingual Children’s and Adults’ Speech (June 23, 2021, 11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. [~ 8:30pm Bathurst time]) 
2. Evidence of the Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition in Bilingual Vietnamese-English children (June 23, 2021, 11:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. [~ 9pm Bathurst time]) 
3. Parents' ratings of intelligibility in 3-year-olds with cleft lip and/or palate using the Intelligibility in Context Scale: Findings from the Cleft Collective Cohort Studies (June 23, 2021, 2:20 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. [~ 11:20pm Bathurst time]) 
4. Children's acquisition of consonants, vowels and tones in Northern Vietnam (June 24, 2021, noon - 12:20 p.m. [~ 9pm Bathurst time])

The conference is being hosted on the Whova app and Gathertown for posters and social events.

Conference chair: A/Prof Joanne Cleland, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

ICPLA President: Prof Vesna Mildner, Croatia

Kate Margetson gave the first ICPLA oral presentation after the first keynote - there was a lot of interest in applying her results to other languages

The conference has used Whova as the presentation app and Gathertown for posters and networking. 

 I just listened to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers (!) in the Student Union. 

Gathertown uses avatars to network, present posters, and enjoy Scotland!

 

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' (RCSLT) Conference in Glasgow

The 2017 RCSLT conference is in Glasgow over the next two days. There are over 500 attendees from 6 countries, 4 keynotes, 71 presentations, 14 workshops, and 110 posters.

I really enjoyed the presentation from  Rt Hon John Bercow MP where he said that the Bercow Review (2008) was "the most stimulating and rewarding project" he has undertaken prior to becoming Speaker of the House of Commons.

Rt Hon John Bercow MP

I am co-presenting the following papers:

1. Sound Start Study: A Community-based Randomized Controlled Trial of Phoneme Factory Sound Sorter • Yvonne Wren (Speech and Language Research Unit, Bristol) • Sharynne McLeod (Charles Sturt University) • Elise Baker (The University of Sydney) • Jane McCormack (Charles Sturt University) • Kate Crowe (Charles Sturt University) • Sarah Masso (Charles Sturt University) • Sue Roulstone (University of the West of England) 
2. The Current Practices of UK Speech and Language Therapists: Phonological Intervention Approaches and Dosages• Natalie Hegarty (Ulster University) • Jill Titterington (Ulster University) • Sharynne McLeod (Charles Sturt University) • Laurence Taggart (Ulster University)

 It has been a great opportunity for networking with colleagues from the UK and around the world.

Yvonne Wren presenting our paper on the Sound Start Study

Prof Julie Marshall (Manchester Metropolitan University), Helen Barrett (Rwanda),
Sharynne, Prof Sue Roulstone (Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit)

Natalie Hegarty, Dr Jill Titterington (University of Ulster), and Sharynne

Visiting Scotland

I have Scottish ancestry, so I really enjoy visiting Scotland.
I  have enjoyed the soaking up the architecture and design of Glasgow, particularly the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Willow Tea Rooms

The RCSLT conference was held at the SEC - and the view each morning was quite spectacular.

While in Scotland I have benefited from the hospitality of colleagues including Professor Jim Scobbie and Professor Alan Wrench from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh and Dr Joanne Cleland from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Kirsty, Joanne, Sharynne, Jim and Alan

RCSLT Child Speech Disorder Research Network

I was invited to join the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Child Speech Disorder Research Network meeting at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.  It was a dynamic meeting of researchers from across the UK who are passionate about working in the field of children's speech.

• Here is their website: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-speech-language-therapy-research-unit/bsltru-research/child-speech-disorder-research-network
• Their transcription guidelines (that we included in our Children's Speech book) are here.
• Their analysis guidelines will be completed soon.

Twitter post from CSDR Network

Child Speech Disorder Research Network