American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Washington DC

This week Dr Helen Blake and I are attending and presenting at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Washington DC. This year ASHA is celebrating its centenary - 100 years.

Here are our presentations:

• Invited 2-Hour Short Course - Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Multilingual Children in International Contexts - Thu 10:30 am SC03 - Sharynne  McLeod, Helen L. Blake, Kate Margetson, Krisztina Zjado
• Technical Research - Community Support For Indigenous Children’s Speech, Language and Communication - Fri 9:30 am 4602L 
• Technical Research - Children’s experience and understanding of intensive speech intervention: "...made my tongue dry up" - Sat 3:00 pm 4734L  

Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Multilingual Children in International Contexts - Helen L. Blake, Sharynne  McLeod,  Krisztina Zjado

Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Multilingual Children in International Contexts

 

ASHA is always a time of catching up with friends and colleagues from across the world - and making new friends and colleagues. 

Sharynne McLeod, Gregg Lof, Rhea Paul

Sharynne  McLeod, Rebecca McCauley, Lynn Williams

Helen Blake and Sharynne  McLeod on day 1

 

Prof Karla Washington, Sharynne McLeod, Nicole Bazzocchi, Helen Blake

Current and Past ASHA staff: Brooke Hallowell, Vicki Deal-Williams (ASHA CEO) Lynn Williams, Arlene Pietrantron, Sharynne  McLeod

Masterclass Series: Seeing like a Researcher with Professor Dominic O’Sullivan

I was honoured to be the chair of this session

Publishing: what should I publish, why, when and where?

https://staff.csu.edu.au/researchers/skill-development/programs/masterclass-series 
 

Let's learn, connect, and build a stronger research culture - together
Join us online this Wednesday, 5 November from 12:00 to 13:00 (AEST) for our Masterclass Series: Seeing like a Researcher with Professor Dominic O’Sullivan to learn more about developing publishing skills, knowledge and confidence.
 
Session Overview
Publishing can be daunting, no matter how many times one has done it. But it also incredibly rewarding and the point of being an academic. In this Masterclass Professor Dominic O’Sullivan will share ideas on the publishing process from the formation of an idea through to maximising the benefit and influence of the published work.
 
This is a valuable opportunity for researchers to get expert advice from a leading publisher.
 
About the presenter
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. Dominic’s research has influenced public policy, including work commissioned by the New Zealand Ministerial Review into the Future for Local Government and the International Labor Organisation. He has also provided expert advice to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has, on more than 70 occasions been invited to address professional and public audiences in the fields of education, health and local government, among others.
 
Dominic has authored eight books and co-edited one. Dominic has published almost 60 journal articles and book chapters and more than 120 articles for public audiences, including in the Conversation, Open Forum and the New Zealand Herald.
 
In 2018, his book Beyond Biculturalism: the politics of an indigenous minority (Huia Publishers, 2007) was recognised by the Royal Society of New Zealand as one of the 150 most important books by a Māori author since the first Māori authored book in 1815. His latest book, Indigeneity, Culture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), continues his interest in relationships between the possibilities and constraints of liberal democracy and indigenous self-determination. Dominic’s expertise is also regularly sought by news media, with over 1100 expert interviews across television, radio, and print. Examples of Dominic’s media work may be found on his LinkedIn page.
 
Dominic’s work brings academic research and practical policy application together, making significant contributions to the advancement of indigenous rights and self-determination in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally.

Some of the reasons Prof O'Sullivan suggested are reasons for publishing are: contractual obligation, career advancement, social cultural and professional obligations, to hold influence, and for fun.

 

ECV2024 certificates

The ECV2024 certificates are going out to presenters at the moment. Here is the accompanying email:

Dear Sharynne,

Thank you for presenting at the Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2024). This virtual and asynchronous event brought together 1,338 researchers and professionals from 54 countries.

Over four days, ECV2024 showcased the work of the four keynote presentations, 147 oral presentations, and 200+ children’s drawings across three streams - early childhood voices: international interdisciplinary research, multilingual children's speech development and children draw playing global online gallery. Participants also engaged in six yarning circle discussions and a workshop on understanding different communications methods presented by Shirley Wong, who has lived experience of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices.

The conference website can be viewed here https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/

Previous conferences are also available online
· ECV2020 https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2020/
· ECV2022 https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/

Thank you for your contribution to ECV2024
See you in 2026.

Dr Kelly Tribolet and Dr Belinda Downey
Early Childhood Voices 2024 Professional Recognition Committee
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group
 
Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod and Dr Belinda Downey
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Chairs
 
Dr Carolyn Gregoric
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Secretary

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention is held in Seattle this week. At the opening ceremony they announced that there were 13,005 registrations from 58 countries and all 50 states of the US https://convention.asha.org/.

Here are our presentations:

• Culturally Appropriate Assessment in International Contexts: Assessing Children's Speech in Their Home Language(s) (1 hour session)- Sharynne McLeod, Helen L. Blake, Kate Margetson
  
• Services for Children With Pacific Islander Heritage: Practices and Aspirations of Speech-Language Pathologists (30 minute technical session) - Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Sharynne McLeod
  
• Children Draw Talking: Understanding Children's Functioning with Arts-Based Methods (1 hour session)- Sharynne McLeod, Marie Ireland, Jane McCormack, Anna Cronin, Cen Wang, Carolyn Gregoric, Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Van H. Tran, Karla N. Washington, Nicole Bazzocchi, Lauren Choi, Katarina Miletic, Andrea A.N. MacLeod, Jessica A. Harasym
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Our session titled "Culturally Appropriate Assessment in International Contexts: Assessing Children's Speech in Their Home Language(s)" was selected for live-broadcast:

Congratulations! Your in-person, 1-hour oral seminar (listed below) has been selected by the 2024 ASHA Convention Co-Chairs to be live-broadcast as part of the Virtual Program. During the submission process you indicated that you would agree to have your slides and audio broadcast to the virtual platform in real-time if selected. Only 77 sessions were chosen to be broadcast live, with consideration given to the overall strength and value to virtual-only participants and alignment with our 2024 theme, ELEVATE!...The live broadcast is a real-time feed of your presentation onsite in Seattle. Your session will not be recorded and will not be available as an on-demand Virtual Program session after it concludes.

Congratulations to Holly McAlister who is presenting her PhD and attending ASHA for the first time. I am so proud of how well she is networking and making the most of this unique opportunity.

I was also invited to host an ASHA Research Round Table - “Engaging in International Research Collaborations” with Dr. Giang Pham

Invited, keynote, and public lectures in 2024

 2024 has been a busy year (and this list doesn't include the regular conference presentations)!

1. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L., Margetson, K., & Verdon, S. (2024, December). Culturally appropriate assessment in international contexts. [Invited 1-hour session]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA, USA. https://convention.asha.org/ 
2. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, Oct 19-20). Children’s speech assessment and intervention: What works? What’s new? What’s the evidence?. [2-day invited workshop]. Chinese University of Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Social Enterprise. Hong Kong, SAR China
3. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, Oct 18). Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL). [3-hour invited lecture]. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
4. McLeod, S. & Wren, Y. (2024, September 12-14). Children’s communication, educational, social and participation outcomes: Insights from longitudinal population studies [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://www.congressoforl.org/
5. McLeod, S. (2024, September 12-14). Multilingual children’s speech development, assessment and interventions [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil https://www.congressoforl.org/
6. McLeod, S. (2024, September 12-14). Communication rights and the Sustainable Development Goals [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil https://www.congressoforl.org/
7. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L. & Margetson, K. (2024, June 27-29). Multilingual speech development and disorders: A contemporary perspective of children’s speech development in languages of the world [Invited presentation]. 100th Anniversary Celebration of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), Vienna, Austria (online). https://ialp-org.com/event/9853/
8. McLeod, S. (2024, June). Are we really listening to children? [Invited keynote]. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 2024 Summer Lecture, London, UK (online).
9. McLeod, S. (2024, May 23). Multilingual children’s speech. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor Presentation. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/visitors-for-202324/sharynne_mcleod/
10. McLeod, S. (2024, May 15). Communication professionals need to advocate for communication rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. [Seminar]. School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University. Bangor, UK. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/arts-culture-language/dlelb
11. McLeod, S. (2024, May 3). Communication rights and social justice: Enhancing communicative participation for children with speech, language and communication needs. [Seminar]. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK. https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/
12. McLeod, S. (2024, April 30). All children should be seen AND heard: The importance of communication so children can thrive. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and Underwood Trust Annual Lecture, Bristol, UK. https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/Bristol-Speech-Language-Therapy-Research-Unit
13. McLeod, S. (2024, April 29). Speech, language and communication: An overview for dentists. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor Presentation. Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/visitors-for-202324/sharynne_mcleod/
14. McLeod, S. (2024, April 24). Communicating with children and families in a multilingual world. [Invited lecture]. School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University Lecture, Llandaff, Wales, UK.
15. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, April 18). Assessing children’s speech in unfamiliar languages: Insights from Vietnamese-English children [Invited keynote]. XI LLDI Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.  
16. McLeod, S. (2024, February). Supporting monolingual and multilingual children’s phonological development. [Invited keynote]. 2024 Nancy McKinley Lecture organised by the American Board of Child Language & Language Disorders (online).  https://www.speechpathology.com/slp-ceus/course/supporting-monolingual-and-multilingual-children-10849

Presentations about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2023

I have been honoured to provide international presentations about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this year promoting our special issue of the Q1 journal: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549507.2022.2160494 and have been pleased to learn that during 2023 the special issue has had 40,703 downloads and has a mean citation rate of 2.28 

Presentations during 2023 have included: 

• McLeod, S. & Marshall, J. E. (2023, November). Speech-language pathologists and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA USA. 
• McLeod, S. & Marshall, J. E. (2023, August). Speech-language pathology and its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), Auckland, New Zealand. 
• McLeod, S. & Marshall, J. E. (2023, May). Communication, swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart, Australia
• McLeod, S. & Marshall, J. E. (2023, August). International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Salzburg, Austria
• Marshall, J. E. & McLeod, S. (2023, September). XXXIII Congreso Internacional AELFA-IF Santande, Spain

ASHA, Boston, MA, USA

 

SPA, Hobart, Australia

IALP, Auckland, New Zealand

IALP, Auckland, New Zealand

I presented the special issue at the World Health Organization in Manila, Philippines in October.

World Health Organization in Manila, Philippines

I have also presented seminars/workshops at

• Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• University of Iceland, Iceland

In 2024 I have presentations scheduled for 

• University of Bristol, UK
• 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation, Brazil
  

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA, USA

It is exciting to be in Boston for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Our team is presenting a number of papers and seminars, including:

1. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L., Crowe, K., Louw, B., Farquharson, K., Bérubé, D., Goldstein, B., Babatsouli, E., Kakia Petinou, Zajdó, K., Washington, K. N., Auza, A, Buntová, D., Oravkinová, Z., & Masdottir, T. (2023, November). Children’s speech development in 70+ languages and dialects. [1-hour oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA, USA. 

2. Ireland, M., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2023, November). Team decision making for SLPs in schools: Tensions and the impact of rules. [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA, USA. 

3. McLeod, S. & Marshall, J. E. (2023, November). Speech-language pathologists and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA USA. 

4. Washington, K., Crowe, K., McLeod, S., Margetson, K., Kokotek, L., van der Straten Waillet, P., Masdottir, T., Volhardt, M. (2023, November). Methods for accurate differential diagnosis of speech sound disorder in multilingual children. [1-hour oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA USA.  

 The final attendance numbers are: 15,904 (1,458 – Virtual Only 14,446 – In Person)