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

Planning an extension of Marie's research

Tonight I met with Dr Marie Ireland, A/Prof Kate Crowe, and LaVae Hoffman to plan an extension of the research undertaken during Marie's PhD where she identified nine tensions in eligibility decision-making in schools in the United States. 

It will expand on the knowledge from this paper:

Ireland, M. C., McLeod, S. L., & Verdon, S. (2024). Eligibility determinations for speech and language services in United States public schools: Experiences and tensions. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 55(1), 181-198. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-23-00039

Marie, Sharynne, LaVae, Kate meeting in the USA/Iceland/Australia

PPI = CCI Consumer and commuity involvment

Recently I wrote about PPI in the UK (https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2024/05/patient-and-public-involvement-ppi.html)

Today, at the Speech Pathology Australia Conference, I had a conversation with Prof Deborah Hersh from Edith Cowan University who wrote this paper (among others): 

Hersh, D., Israel, M., & Shiggins, C. (2021, in press). The ethics of patient and public involvement across the research process: towards partnership with people with aphasia. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1896870

She informed me that PPI in the UK = CCI in Australia

In 2016, the NHMRC published the "Statement on consumer and community involvement in health and medical research" https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/statement-consumer-and-community-involvement-health-and-medical-research and define the elements of CCI as:

"Community – a group of people sharing a common interest (e.g. cultural, social, political, health, economic interests) but not necessarily a particular geographic association. Different types of communities are likely to have different perspectives and approaches to their involvement in research." (p. 6)

"Consumer – patients and potential patients, carers, and people who use health care services." (p. 6)

Collectively, ‘consumers’ and ‘community members’ may be referred to as ‘the public’." (p. 6)

"Stakeholder - An individual or group from within or outside research organisations with a key interest in research. This might include members of consumer organisations, professional bodies, government agencies, non-government organisations, industry, or research funders as well as consumers and community members. Stakeholders can provide support or expertise and may influence decisions about the research and its findings." (p.7)

NHMRC are currently undertaking a review of this document.

ASHA Special Collection: Developmental Milestones

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