New ECIR blog

We have just begun a blog for the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group:

https://earlychildhoodinterdiscresearch.blogspot.com/

Here is the first blog entry 

Welcome to the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Group Blog at Charles Sturt University in Australia. 

• ECIR is a transformative research program promoting social justice for children, families and practitioners within early childhood 

• We build capacity for engaging in transformative research within our group and with other researchers. 

We are funded by a Charles Sturt University Sturt Scheme grant from 2022-2024 and have approximately 40 interdisciplinary members who are educators, nurses, speech pathologists, physiotherapists, psychologists, linguists, and data scientists. Our members are academics, adjuncts and research higher degree students at Charles Sturt University. Find out more about us here: 

ECIR: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains 

CRO: https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-research-group

Blog statistics: 257K views!

I have just had a look at this blog's statistics! There have been 21.1K views in the past 12 months and 257K views over the 10 years I have kept this blog!

The top countries accessing my blog are: USA, UK, Australia, France, Russia, Sweden, Brazil, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Germany, Vietnam, Romania, Netherlands, Canada, India, Poland, Japan, Indonesia.

Siblings of children with hearing loss

Some time ago Kate Crowe, Jacqui Barr and I were invited to write a piece titled "Siblings of children with hearing loss" for the Oxford University Press eBulletin  Raising and Educating Deaf Children: Foundations for Policy, Practice and Outcomes. It has been posted online here: http://www.raisingandeducatingdeafchildren.org/2017/10/16/siblings-of-children-with-hearing-loss/

Tutorial: Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist

The following article has just been published online and is being profiled by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) during May:
McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2017). Tutorial: Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication doi: 10.1044/2017_AJSLP-15-0161

• The open access (free) download of the article is here: http://AJSLP.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?doi=10.1044/2017_AJSLP-15-0161
• ASHA's blog post is here: http://academy.pubs.asha.org/2017/05/supporting-slps-work-multilingual-children/
• ASHA's video is here: https://youtu.be/mrd7dDz9O08
• It is featured as part of ASHA's Better Hearing and Speech Month campaign during May.
• It is also the Research Tuesday article on ASHA's social media for the 23rd May https://www.facebook.com/asha.org/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf.

Being interviewed via Skype for the ASHA online blog

This map shows the countries where the authors from the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech have worked. Thanks to Michael Cramer from ASHA for creating the map.

View McLeod et al. (2017) in a full screen map