Keynote address to the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Virtual Conference

The Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Virtual Conference is being held on 9-10 September 2021 https://cfsgbi21.online/. It is a pleasure to be invited to present at the 2021 virtual conference whose theme is "Making a Difference". There were 163 people online during my keynote address.

Originally, I was invited to present the keynote address in Cardiff Wales in April 2020. However, the 2020 conference was postponed due to COVID restrictions.

My 2021 presentation is titled: "Making a difference to children's ability to communicate and participate" and profiles my work of Dr Anna Cronin, Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Yvonne Wren and colleagues:

1. Cronin, A., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2021). Persistence, strength, isolation and trauma: An ethnographic exploration of raising children with cleft palate. Journal of Communication Disorders, 106102. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106102 
2. Cronin, A., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2020). Working with toddlers with cleft palate: Learning from clients and families Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 22(2), 101–107. https://speechpathologyaustralia.cld.bz/JCPSLP-Vol-22-No-2-2020/30/ 
3. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020). Holistic communication assessment for young children with cleft palate using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health:Children and Youth. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51(4), 914–938. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00122 
4. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020). Applying the ICF-CY to specialist speech-language pathologists’ practice with toddlers with cleft palate speech. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 57(9), 1105–1116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620918799 
5. Seifert, M., Davies, A., Harding, S., McLeod, S., & Wren, Y. (2021). Intelligibility in 3-year-olds with cleft lip and/or palate using the Intelligibility in Context Scale: Findings from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620985747

 

My presentation is available here: https://prod-stitched-screen-recordings.s3-ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/recordings/ebfddbf0-0420-11ec-b585-7f7404f40a84/c1929699-6b74-4af3-907f-636ab4c61c7e/ebfddbf0-0420-11ec-b585-7f7404f40a84_80aedccb.mp4

Speech Pathology Australia Annual General Meeting and Awards Ceremony

Tonight I virtually attended the Speech Pathology Australia Annual General Meeting and Awards Ceremony . We were meant to have this at our National Conference that would have begun last night in Darwin, but was postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19. There were 132 attendees and 6 panelists (SPA Board).

Congratulations to the City of Adelaide for their Community Contribution Award for their commitment to communication access.
Congratulations also goes to:

• Cathy Clark - Service to the Association Award
• Dr Robyn O'Halloran - Elinor Wray Award
• Jennifer Peach - Elinor Wray Award
• Dr Hilary Johnson - Life Member
• Prof Pamela Snow - Life Member

Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium

Last week the VietSpeech team presented two papers at the Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium (ITML5), an international online symposium accessible here: https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5. The theme this year was "Language, Culture and Ethnicity in Indigenous and Migrant Languages" Our papers are available here:

• Vietnamese language use, proficiency, and intergenerational transmission in Australia - Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Van Tran (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/vietnamese-language-use-proficiency-and-intergenerational-transmission-in-australia-1.466375) 
• Factors affecting Vietnamese-Australian children's language proficiency and use - Van Tran, Sharynne McLeod, Cen (Audrey) Wang and Sarah Verdon (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/factors-affecting-vietnamese-australian-children-s-language-proficiency-and-use-1.466368)

There was another presentation about Vietnamese as well:

• Language negotiation in bilingual mother-child interactions: The case of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Singapore - Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh and Nguyen Thi Hanh (https://www.isd.su.se/english/itml5/presentations/language-negotiation-in-bilingual-mother-child-interactions-1.466350)