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
I have enjoyed conversations with A/Prof Tina Du, Dr Deborah Wise and Rachel Walls from the School of Information and Communication Studies. There are many synergies with our shared interest in communication rights for all.
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| A/Prof Tina Du, Head School of Information and Communication Studies |
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| Sharynne, Rachel Walls, Deborah Wise and Tina Du from SICS at The Treehouse |
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has just launched a new developmental milestones collection.
https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/communication-milestones/
It is pleasing to see that the data they have used to describe children's speech development (https://pubs.asha.org/special-collections/developmental-milestones) is from our paper:
Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2155–2169. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168
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