Mandarin Articulation and Phonology Test

While in China I met Prof Pao-chuan Torng who is the Chair of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. She has published a test titled the Mandarin Articulation and Phonology Test (and I was able to purchase a copy to add to my collection), and written two books.

Additionally, she has translated a number of texts into Chinese, including
McLeod, S. (2014). Speech sound acquisition. In J. E. Bernthal, N. W. Bankson, & P. Flipsen Jnr (Eds.), Articulation and phonological disorders: Speech sound disorders in children (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

IALP congress dinner - an opportunity to meet with more colleagues from around the world

The IALP Congress dinner was a wonderful opportunity to meet with more colleagues from around the world and enjoy Taiwanese food and culture.

President elect Pam Enderby, Past president Helen Grech, President Lilly Cheng

Prof Sharynne McLeod (Australia), Dr Ben Pham (Vietnam), Prof Gail Gillon (NZ)

Conversations with Prof I-Nan Lien (founder of speech pathology in Taiwan), Professor Lilly Cheng (USA) and Dr Ben Pham (Vietnam)

Ben, David and Sharynne with traditional Taiwanese characters

David, Brian Shulman (US) and Sharynne at the Silks Palace

VietSpeech presentations at IALP

Our VietSpeech team are presenting a number of different papers and posters during the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) conference. Here are some photos from our presentations.

IALP President (outgoing), Lily Cheng viewing our VietSpeech poster with Dr Sarah Verdon and Prof Sharynne McLeod

Dr Sarah Verdon presenting a paper on the Vietnamese Language Screener

• McLeod, S. (2019) Transcription of adults’ and children’s speech when you don’t speak their language 
• McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Wang, C., & Tran, V. H. (2019) Factors supporting language maintenance amongst the Vietnamese community in Australia 
• Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019) Assessing Vietnamese children's intelligibility and speech sounds 
• Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019) Transcription of tone. 
• Tran, V. H., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wang, C. (2019). Maintaining children’s home languages to support communicative participation (poster) http://miceposter.com/poster/display_poster/710
• Verdon, S. et al. (2019). Development and validation of the Vietnamese Language Screener.

Dr Ben Pham presenting at IALP

Mr Dien and Dr Ben becoming members of IALP with Vanessa Borg

International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) World Congress in Taiwan

This week (18-22 August, 2019) is the 31st World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) in Taipei, Taiwan (http://www.ialptaipei2019.org/). IALP is auspiced by the World Health Organization, and most professional associations across the world that are associated with speech, language and hearing attend. The 2019 Congress has been attended by 961 delegates from 46 countries. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of IALP.

I am the deputy chair of the IALP Child Speech committee. Dr Yvonne Wren, the chair, is unable to attend, so I have chaired our tri-annual meeting, and presented and chaired sessions on behalf of the committee. I also represented Speech Pathology Australia in the voting during the General Assembly.

Our Speech-Language-Multilingualism team are presenting the following papers:

1. Cronin, A., McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2019, August). Holistic assessment of young children with cleft lip and palate using the ICF-CY 
2. McLeod, S. (2019) Transcription of adults’ and children’s speech when you don’t speak their language 
3. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Wang, C., & Tran, V. H. (2019) Factors supporting language maintenance amongst the Vietnamese community in Australia 
4. Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019, August) Assessing Vietnamese children's intelligibility and speech sounds 
5. Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019, August) Transcription of tone. 
6. Wren, Y. (presented by S. McLeod) Place of automatic speech recognition for assessing speech disorders. 
7. Tran, V. H., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wang, C. (2019, August). Maintaining children’s home languages to support communicative participation (URL below)
8. http://miceposter.com/poster/display_poster/710

IALP group photo (sourced from IALP's Facebook page)
More IALP photos are here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/IALP-Taipei-2019-1378164912312556/photos/?ref=page_internal

The conference venue (left) near the East Gate (right)

IALP Child Speech Committee Meeting (Susan Rvachew, Helen Grech, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah and Sadie Verdon) (unfortunately 8 members of our committee were unable to attend)

Belinda Hill (Vice President, Speech Pathology Australia) bearing the Australian flag at the opening flag ceremony

Australians at IALP in Taiwan

Sadie and Ben Pham

Taiwan - A land of diversity