Welcome back Audrey

 I am so excited to welcome back Dr Audrey (Cen) Wang to work with me for 2 days/week as a statistician on our Catholic Education Tasmania research grant. Audrey has published so many important papers with our team. It will be wonderful to work with her again.

 

CET statistics

Our data for the Catholic Education Tasmania Speech Sound Disorder (CeTasSSD) grant is coming in thick and fast - so now we are gearing up for statistical analysis. This morning I met with Dr Nicola Ivory to plan our work on the Intelligibility in Context Scale data.

Children Draw Play reliability analysis

Thanks to Azizur Rahman who has worked closely with Carolyn Gregoric to undertake the analyses to determine the reliability of our Children Draw Playing data. We met on a very hot day (42oC in some cities) to discuss and write up the Cohen's kappa analyses.

 

Stats meeting between surgery

Thanks Caitilin for a very efficient quick meeting in between your surgical patients today! It is fun working with a person who is a speech pathologist and a dentist and a researcher. The data look great. The reliability looks great. We are almost ready to present this at our upcoming international conference.

VietSpeech data analysis

We are currently analysing the data from our VietSpeech SuperSpeech program. Audrey is such a fantastic statistician. It's great to be able to share SPSS over zoom! 

 

Congratulations Audrey!

Dr Audrey Wang, who  is our extremely valuable statistical consultant on our VietSpeech grant for 1 day/week, has just finished her psychology internship hours and submitted her application for general registration in psychology to AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency). Congratulations Audrey!

UPDATE: 4th November - Dr Wang is now a registered psychologist. Congratulations Audrey - this is wonderful news - and hard earned recognition.

Important members of the research team

Today I was so pleased to meet Dr Nicola Ivory in person. She has been a fantastic member of our team supporting our statistical analysis from our NSW Health Grant. She is based in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Charles Sturt University in Albury, but had to come to Bathurst for another project, so I was finally able to buy her a coffee.
To undertake quality research, it is important to have quality team members with diverse and complementary skills. We have really appreciated Nicola's statistical and methodological expertise.

Dr Nicola Ivory and Sharynne in Bathurst

Data analysis meeting - Waiting for Speech Pathology Grant

Today our NSW Health Translational Research Grant Scheme team met to discuss the first phase of data analysis with our statisticians (Dr Nicola Ivory and Dr Audrey Wang). It was an exciting meeting as we were able to see changes over time for our different interventions.  We will be presenting the data at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in June. Today's participants were in Bathurst, Dubbo, Albury, and Shepparton meeting via video conference.

Nina and Kate in Dubbo (in front of their vocabulary wall)

Nicola, Nicole, Emily, Audrey, Sharynne and Katrina (on screen)

Katrina, Audrey and Emily in Bathurst

NSW Health Translational Research Grant data collection has finished

Today data collection for the NSW Health Translational Research Grant finished. Katrina Rohr from Bathurst Community Health centre just sent 52,173 cells of data collected by the research team across 2 sites from 121 children over 4 stages of our randomised controlled trial. The data will now be cleaned then analysed. It is an exciting stage of research. What have we found?

Sarah's SPSS PhD visit

This week Sarah Masso was in Bathurst to work with Audrey Wang and myself on her next PhD paper. Sarah currently is exploring change in preschoolers' polysyllable maturity over 3 time points. Audrey worked with Sarah on her data using SPSS, and together they imputed data and statistically described change over time. During the visit Sarah also supported Ben's data entry and analysis, and we celebrated Sarah's PhD birthday. It was a very productive week.

Sarah and Audrey

Sharynne, Sarah, and Ben

Learning statistics

This week Sarah Masso spent a productive PhD week in Melbourne undertaking an ACSPRI (Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated) statistics course with other members of the Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network. She will apply this knowledge to the analysis of the Sound Start data.

Sarah Masso still smiling at the end of her week-long statistics course

Hilary Monk (Monash) and Sarah Masso (CSU) in Melbourne at the end of their course