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ECV2024 social media

 Here are the social media links for ECV2024

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/240093224084969
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kate-margetson-43a584212_early-childhood-voices-online-conference-activity-7266691767008137216-iot0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
 
X: https://x.com/CSU_ECRG/status/1860913287988494795
 
https://x.com/CSU_ECRG/status/1860915328664191072

Preparing a talk about Twitter

Thank you to the generous Prof Bronwyn Hemsley @BronwynHemsley and Dr Liss Brunner who have shared their slides and resources for me to prepare a talk to the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme about tweeting.

Here is a gem from Liss

• Anatomy of a tweet https://twitter.com/LissBEE_CPSP/status/1523521816165519362?s=20&t=HB0_XIsUxUbi7091BniE1Q

Here are some images from my work that I will use

 

Here are some accounts that I will share in my talk:

• @CSU_ECRG
• @SV_SLP
• @JulianGrant5
• @EarlyChildAus
  

Speech Pathology Week 2021

22-28 August is Speech Pathology Week 2021. The theme is Communication is everyone's right. https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/SPAweb/whats_on/Speech_Pathology_Week  

"Speech pathologists work to ensure everyone can communicate with confidence. It is important that the broader community understands that: 

• communication is a basic human right;
• 1.2 million Australians live with communication disability;
• communication disability is largely invisible. Unseen and out-of-sight;
• confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes; and 
• communication is more than just speech. "

I was interviewed by Speech Pathology Australia for their SPA Week podcast which will be released soon.

 

Continued interest in McLeod and Crowe (2018)

There continues to be interest on social media about the "new norms" from the McLeod and Crowe (2018) cross-linguistic review of speech acquisition, including the "SLPs for Evidence Based Practice" Facebook group and Children's Literacy and Speech Sound Lab (see below)

https://buff.ly/33Cn7Wq

 McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 1546–1571. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

Free graphics: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition 

Analysing social media for better public policy

Today I was honoured to open the Charles Sturt University one day symposium titled "Analysing social media for better public policy". Speakers and participants came from across the country, and I was invited to open the event. Details about the symposium are here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/events/social-media-symposium

The aims of the symposium were to:

• Share cases where social media has been used to inform or guide public policy and decisions 
• Share research highlighting the application of social media to important policy matters 
• Bring together people working and researching in this developing field 
• Explore challenges of social media data use such as ethics, geolocation, sample representativeness, access to data 
• Consider systems and processes for gathering and analysing social media for public policy and decisions.

 The symposium included discussion about kangaroos, cervical screening, obesity, e-cigarettes, sharks, carp, policymakers, ethics, and concluded with "workshopping the wicked".