ECV2024 - Multilingual Children's Speech stream

The Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2024) offers a world first opportunity with its Multilingual Children’s Speech Development presentations. You can discover how children learn to speak more than 45 home languages by watching over 70 presentations provided by international experts in each language. The experts explain where the language is spoken, the components of the language (vowels, consonants, tones), and the assessments and interventions available to support children learning to speak that language. 

Once you have listened to the presentations in English, you can listen to the same information presented in the language being spoken about. For example, you can hear how children learn to speak Kurdish in an English presentation and then listen again in Kurdish, or you can listen to a presentation about Greek in English and in Greek. These presentations will appeal to speech-language pathologists, teachers, psychologists, and linguists, as well as others wanting to learn linguistic terminology for information about each language. They may also be of interest to parents, second language learners, and people who want to listen to professional language users speaking in the language. 

• YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXcSAl_dA7arRMrE0qdxLuzGChY1LgY2 
• Website: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition/multilingual-childrens-speech-development

Translating and sharing research - videos and posters

Today I met with A/Prof Belinda Cash for our monthly mentoring meeting. One of the topics we discussed was how important it is to translate our Q1 journal articles to user-friendly formats (videos, posters, resources etc.).

Here are some examples of ways that we have translated our research into user-friendly formats

1. VIDEO "The Lifelong Effects Of Speaking Multiple Languages" Multilingualism is a superpower! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBrXmRW7lwg

Based on:

Blake, H. L., McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & Fuller, G. (2018). The relationship between spoken English proficiency and participation in higher education, employment and income from two Australian censuses. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(2), 202–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2016.1229031 

McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546–1571. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

2.  RESOURCES "VietSpeech SuperSpeech - Maintaining home languages" https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/info

Based on: 

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Tran, V. H., Margetson, K., & Wang, C. (2022). SuperSpeech: Multilingual speech and language maintenance intervention for Vietnamese-Australian children and families via telepractice. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 53(3), 675-697. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_LSHSS-21-00146

3.  POSTERS "Learning English consonants"https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition

Based on:

McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546–1571. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

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

4. VIDEO "ON-TRAC - transitioning to residential aged care" https://youtu.be/DKPSTt4ihyk

Based on: 

Fealy, S., McLaren, S., Nott, M., Seaman, C.E., Cash, B., & Rose, L. (2024). Psychological interventions designed to reduce relocation stress for older people transitioning into permanent residential aged care: A systematic scoping review. Aging and Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2340731

(Created by Gareth Smart - CSU digital media technologist - DLT)

Charles Sturt University Research Futures video interviews

I was honoured to be interviewed for Research Futures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joK0h40Z6bY

Research Futures is a series of video interviews with Charles Sturt's Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and senior academics by Virginia Haussegger AM, an award-winning television journalist, writer and commentator. Research is, and will always be, vital to Charles Sturt's social purpose - to generate world-class applied research to help foster prosperous communities across New South Wales. Charles Sturt aims to be the leading regional university known for solving real-world problems and enhancing the quality of life of regional Australians. The Research Futures Showcase is a tightly woven showcase of vignettes taken from interviews conducted by Virginia where researchers discuss their big research ideas, how they challenge orthodoxy and what research outcomes will or have been achieved. Research Futures shows the breadth and importance of research being conducted at Charles Sturt.

• Professor Renée Leon, Vice-Chancellor // https://youtu.be/pOwCuUrkbsY 
• Professor Mark Evans, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) // https://youtu.be/Hg899ZiP8Yo 
• Professor Sharynne McLeod // https://youtu.be/KPt4IU3zLE0 
• Professor Alan Cooper // https://youtu.be/44DYFiG10IY 
• Professor Allen Ross // https://youtu.be/uq0NKkmevRM 
• Professor Ganna Pogrebna // https://youtu.be/igFsPjKrZjE 
• Professor Jane Quinn // https://youtu.be/MvtzBvaZkGk 
• Professor Lee Baumgartner // https://youtu.be/MwPi0z2mElE 
• Professor Leslie Weston // https://youtu.be/_8Hb2lIAF74
• Nick Pagett // https://youtu.be/TsQkxcR29-I
• Professor Sarah O’Shea // https://youtu.be/-atQqM-RWqs
• Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi // https://youtu.be/IlWGlSS9p9I

Multilingual Children's Speech social media videos

Last year CSU social created Mutilingual Children's Speech videos for us to share. The message was "multilingualism is a superpower"

I have continued to share them in my recent workshops and keynotes. Here are the links:

• YouTube: https://youtu.be/wBrXmRW7lwg
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlessturtuni/posts/10160630198933916 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charles-sturt-university_the-lifelong-effects-of-speaking-multiple-activity-6739859399638093824-Depq