Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022) abstract submission is open

The Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022) abstract submission is open and we are now able to order tickets to the event. This has been a productive week working with Dr Shukla Sikder (co-chair) and Dr Carolyn Gregoric.

More information: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/ 

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022-tickets-399348240337 

We already have had some WONDERFUL feedback on the first day we have promoted the conference:

• From Australia: "I wanted to say what a wonderful opportunity this is. So please let your people know that this is a brilliant service to the EY sector, really fantastic, and we shall promote it across the country. I don’t recall any other university doing such a thing, so I think this is really brilliant." 
• From Vietnam: "Thanks for sharing this. It's exciting. I and my team in Vietnam will submit to the ECV2022"

We advertised ECV2022 on Tuesday evening, and in one day we had 131 conference registrations including from Australia, Canada, Ehiopia, Argentina, Turkey, Bangladesh, Ireland, Fiji, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Africa, Dubai and Tonga. This is going to be another great conference!

International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2022

The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS) (6-9 April 2022) is a hybrid conference with both on site and online presentations and events at the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Université des Acadiens et Créoles). https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/international-symposium-monolingual-and-bilingual-speech-ismbs-2022 

Kate Margetson and I are chairing a session each (starting ~6:30am our time!) and over three days are virtually presenting three papers from our VietSpeech research:

1. VietSpeech: Vietnamese-Australian children’s speech and language competence (Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson, Van H. Tran, Cen Wang, Ben Pham) 
2. The VietSpeech Multilingual Transcription Protocol: A 4-step process for transcribing Vietnamese-Australian children’s speech (Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Van H. Tran) 
3. Cross-linguistic transfer during multilingual speech acquisition: A longitudinal Vietnamese-English case study (Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Van H. Tran) 

Additionally, I am on the ISMBS International Scientific Committee https://speechandlanguage.louisiana.edu/international-symposium-monolingual-and-bilingual-speech-ismbs/ismbs-international-scientific

It has been an inspiring conference with fascinating papers from across the world.

SOTE Research Committee

For the next 6 months I am the chair of the School of Teacher Education (SOTE) Research Committee while Dr Helen Logan is on SSP (sabbatical). We had our first meeting of the year this afternoon, and it was a pleasure to welcome new members. There was a lot of new information to discuss including COVID-19 (see below).