A/Prof Jon Preston's visit to CSU Bathurst

A/Prof Jonathan Preston has visited Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst over the past 2 days.  He generously agreed to meet local speech-language pathologists and present a seminar (face-to-face and virtually) regarding his research using ultrasound with children with speech sound disorders.
The seminar was titled "Updates on Ultrasound Biofeedback for the Treatment of Speech Sound Disorders"

Emily Davis, Angela Roberts, Sharynne McLeod, Jon Preston, Lauren after Jon's presentation

Sharynne and Jon comparing notes about electropalatography and ultrasound

Jon also met many of CSU's kangaroos (130 to be exact!).

Jon's trip began navigating the complexities of the Australian rail transport system that has been significantly affected by the bushfires then floods. Here is what I texted to him as he was on his way to Bathurst

I’m really pleased you are going to experience Australia today. As you travel, think about our big country, small population, and the continuing challenges of fires, floods, drought etc. Then look at the map of the whole of Australia and notice that Bathurst actually is extremely close to Sydney - in fact on a number of measures we are not even considered to be “rural” and we definitely are not “remote”. Then overlay those thoughts with being a family with communication disorders/other issues...

Manipulable speech simulation

This website provides an interesting simulation of speech that can be manipulated.
http://flowingdata.com/2017/03/21/simulation-shows-how-your-mouth-works-when-you-talk/
Thanks for sharing it Lisa McLean!

Seeing Speech website

Six Scottish universities have created an amazing website dedicated to seeing speech: http://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk. My favourite feature is the real time movies of each consonant of the world created using MRI technology: http://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipachart/display.php?chart=1&datatype=1&speaker=1. The site also includes Dynamic Dialects (http://www.dynamicdialects.ac.uk/) portraying ultrasound movies of speakers from around the world producing the same list of words.