CSU webteam - Creating the web presence for our new centre and the virtual Treehouse

I have had many fantastic meetings with the CSU webteam to created web presence for our new centre and the virtual Treehouse. The team include:

• Boram Kwon
• Lindsey Ting
• Alex Moore

They have listened carefully, have looked at our current web presence - and have come up with some fantastic ideas. We have worked through the wireframe stage - and are about to start building the first stage (horse stage) - before we launch into the zebra and unicorn stages.

First meeting with the CSU webteam

CSU webteam showing the wireframe design

Assessing Multilingual Children's Speech in their Home Languages - Professional Development Events online at CSU

This week Kate Margetson is running three free professional development events titled "Assessing Multilingual Children's Speech in their Home Languages" as part of our Rural Health Research Institute Grant. We have asked participants to complete a 10 minute questionnaire as part of the free event to provide us with information about current work with multilingual children and to give us feedback on the clinical feasibility and applicability of our new evidence-based approach to support multilingual children's speech titled Speech Assessment in Children's Home Languages (SACHL). 502 people registered - and 348 enthusiastic people attended the sessions. 

• Monday 1st July at 8am Sydney timezone - 90 attendees 
• Tuesday 2nd July at 12pm Sydney timezone - 137 attendees
  
• Friday 5th July at 12pm Sydney timezone - 121 attendees
  

Kate Margetson presenting online - introducing the SACHL

The presentation included lots of published evidence from the VietSpeech Study

Author meetings - The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World will contain approximately 80 chapters written by 206 authors about 50 languages. Ensuring that all aspects of the project is consistent is a huge task - but made easy by the calibre and care of the excellent authors (researchers, linguists, speech-language pathologists, etc.). We are now up to the point of creating the maps, audio files, conference and online presentations of the chapters - so I decided to host author meetings. They are being held three times to suit as many time zones as possible. What a joy to see so many of my excellent colleagues to discuss this important project.

Author meeting option 1 - May 4 2023

Author meeting option 2 - May 5 2023

Author meeting option 3 - May 9 2023

Dr Helen Blake is working with me to prepare the online conference

Online launch of the free bilingual book "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ"

Today, the VietSpeech team hosted an online launch of the free bilingual book titled "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ". The 52-page book aims to support Vietnamese-Australian children and families to maintain their home language and enhance speech skills in Vietnamese and English. It contains many strategies to support families’ teaching of Vietnamese every day at home. 

The free book is available here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/info 

Capstan Le

Dr Duong Nguyen

Sheila Pham

Dr Van Tran

 

This book is the culmination of our VietSpeech research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery ARC Discovery Grant is titled Vietnamese-Australian children's speech and language competence (DP180102848) that began in 20218 and concluded in December 2021. VietSpeech team members are here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/team

More details https://about.csu.edu.au/community/events/upcoming/online/vietspeech-book-launch

The CSU media release is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/in-brief/research-delivers-free-bilingual-book-vietspeech-to-be-launched-online  

I have provided radio interviews on ABC Goulburn Murray and 2BS Bathurst regarding the launch. 

ABC published a news story https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-07/new-book-encourages-survival-of-vietnamese-language-in-australia/

VietSpeech team - bilingualism is a superpower

Dr Van Tran and Sheila Pham will mention the book on their SBS radio programs and podcasts.

We hope that it is a useful resource for the world. 

Wow! Our research published by ABC was featured in the Qantas Club!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-07/new-book-encourages-survival-of-vietnamese-language-in-australia/

Conducting research online

Here are some resources to support online research:

• NSW Department of Education: https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-from-home/media/documents/guidelines-to-support-schools-using-live-video-with-students.pdf 
• StoryPark (Early childhood education) https://blog.storypark.com/2020/04/how-to-provide-a-virtual-group-time-to-young-children/
• Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/04/20/carrying-out-qualitative-research-under-lockdown-practical-and-ethical-considerations/