Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
Our Children Draw Health Global Online Gallery is currently on display at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. What a great way to profile our children's voices!
Here is the whole gallery: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre/research/childrens-health
Today A/Prof Tamara Cumming, Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met with Lilium Burrow and team from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Here are the plans so far:
BRAG Forecourt Summer Exhibition - Presentation of the Children Draw Health Global Online Galleries.
Today Tamara Cumming and I had our first meeting with colleagues at Arts Out West. They have many impressive programs - including many to support people with disabilities. We plan to collaborate as part of our research with the World Health Organization. What a wonderful opportunity to learn from the team and the artists. Here are some of their initiatives:
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| Sharynne, Kylie Shead, Kate Smith, Steven Cavanagh, Tamara Cumming |
Today I met with with Lilium Burrow, Audience Engagement Officer, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery to discuss the Children's Voices Centre's new research with the World Health Organization to listen to children about health, health equity and health access. She was enthusiastic about collaborating - and identified these connections:
A BRAG X Cementa initiative, The NSW Young Regional Creators Network is a network of established and emerging organisations and programs dedicated to delivering creative and social skills and confidence building outcomes for young people in Regional NSW through arts, new technology, and cultural expression. This program will connect organisations across Central and Western NSW to share resources, ideas, methodologies and talent in a format designed to distribute access across the distances that isolate young people in the regional context. This program directly addresses the difficulty of delivering meaningful cultural outcomes for young people in regional NSW by connecting organisations in a network that will allow resource sharing and program integration that can be delivered to young people across the region. For example, Cementa can supply up to 20 artists a year to conduct workshops, BRAG can provide access to a celebrated regional gallery, artistic program, and professional development, while Arts Out West and Charles Sturt University can provide state of the art facilities for young people that participate in these programs and those of Headspace, Social Futures Clubhouse and BRAG Youth Advocates. This program also offers the potential for youth from across regional NSW to meet and collaborate on common projects and events.
Today Olebeng and I visited Dhuluny: The war that never ended - a powerful and thought-provoking exhibition at the Bathurst Art Gallery
https://bathurstart.com.au/exhibitions-events/dhuluny-the-war-that-never-ended/
"The exhibition is part of The Dhuluny Project – a series of events commemorating the 200-year anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law on 14 August 1824 in the Bathurst region and the ensuing frontier violence. Dhuluny means the direct or gospel truth, and the commemoration offers visitors the opportunity to share and understand the true history of our country and celebrate the resilience of the Wiradyuri Nation...This project has been developed and supported with the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation."
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| Visitors to the exhibition were given the chance to reflect on the exhibition and write on a gum leaf |
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| "Returning stolen goods" - artwork addressing the stolen generation |
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| Books containing the Wiradjuri language on display (I also own a number of these) |
Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010-2014) titled Speaking my Languages: International Speech Acquisition in Australia. This blog was designed to archive what she learned and accomplished during the Fellowship. For details about the Fellowship see the original post. The Multilingual Children's Speech website was created as part of this Fellowship. It contains resources for over 60 languages.
The blog has continued beyond 2014 to record our continuing work to make a difference in children's lives throughout the world. Since this blog commenced Professor McLeod's Speech-Language-Multilingualism team has included:
Postdoctoral scholars: Dr Kate Crowe, Dr Sarah Verdon, Dr Sarah Masso, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, Dr Michelle Brown
PhD students: Nicole Watts Pappas, Jane McCormack, Jacqui Barr, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Suzanne Hopf, Ben Pham, Helen Blake, Anna Cronin, Natalie Hegarty, Anniek van Doornik, Nicole McGill, Van Tran, Belinda Downey, Marie Ireland, Kate Margetson
Masters students: Rebekah Lockart, Hang Nguyen, Vấn Phạm
Honours students: Bethany Toohill, Hannah Wilkin, Erin Holliday, Nicole Limbrick, Charlotte Howland and Holly McAlister.
Summaries:
2010, Feb-July: here
2010, Feb-Dec: here
2011, Feb-June: here
2011, July-Sept: here
2011, Oct-Dec: here
2012, Jan-Feb: here
2012, March-May: here
2012, June-July: here
2012, Aug-Sept: here
2012, Oct-2013-Feb: here
2013, March-May: here
2013, June-August: here
2013, Sept-2014, Feb: here
2014, March-June: here