Fulbright application conversations

I have had a number of wonderful conversations with Dr Chelsea Sommer about her Fulbright Scholarship application to come to visit our team at Charles Sturt University. She is an amazing scholar with expertise in Spanish and children with cleft palate. Her project fits so well into our multilingual children's speech research. I hope her application is successful. We really want her to visit!

Sharynne and Chelsea in NZ at the IALP congress in August 2023

Sharynne and Chelsea in US and Australia on Zoom

UPDATE - 15th September - APPLICATION SUBMITTED! 

Best wishes Chelsea - we really want you to come to CSU as a Fulbright Future Postdoctoral Scholar (funded by The Kinghorn Foundation) in 2025

 

Oxford University Press Handbook - next stages

Today I have been working on The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. I had a great discussion with Dr. Chelsea Sommer from Miami, about a new chapter on Peruvian Spanish Speech Development. Then I worked with Dr. Mark Filmer from CSU who is going to copyedit the final chapters. Last week I worked with Dr. Helen Blake from UTS who is working with me on a project to translate the information within the chapters into online and accessible presentations. This work has been approved by Oxford University Press and is going to be a great addition to the resources about speech development across the world.

Chelsea Sommer (USA), Sharynne, and Mark Filmer (CSU)

Helen Blake (UTS) and Sharynne

A holiday in Spain

During February I had the most wonderful time exploring Spain with my family. What a diverse, colourful, creative, innovative, and friendly country. I look forward to visiting again as soon as possible.

Launch of Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment

The BESA authors: Liz Peña, Vera Gutiérrez-Clellan, Lisa Bedore, Aquiles Iglesias and Brian Goldstein

The Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment was launched during the ASHA convention after 14 years of development. It is a test of morphosyntax, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics for Spanish-English bilingual children aged 4;0 to 6;11 years. It has been normed on 10 dialects of Spanish and 7 regional US dialects of English for children. Here is the reference:
Peña, E. D., Gutiérrez-Clellen, V. F., Iglesias, A., Goldstein, B. A., & Bedore, L. M. (2014). BESA: Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment. San Rafael, CA: AR-Clinical Publications.