Today our Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting met face-to-face by the first time. We met in Bathurst, Albury and online. Over half of our team (16 people) were available for this inspiring day. We spent time working out WHY we are doing our research. We also established a Twitter community.
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| ECIR Albury |
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| ECIR Zoom |
Today I attended the School of Education School Board meeting. Here is a sentence from the agenda documents:
We have received an enormous number of requests for ... assessment extensions as well as approved withdrawals this session. In addition to COVID health issues, mental health, financial and personal circumstances have been strong reasons for these student applications.
In Australia, 2022 has been a challenging year, including that we have the highest numbers of COVID cases in the world (since we were in lockdown when other countries experienced this in 2020 and 2021). In previous years when someone had difficulties, others were available to step up and support. This year, many people have things going on, so there are fewer people who can step up to enable life to keep going.
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
Here are some images from my work that I will use
Here are some accounts that I will share in my talk:
Today the leaders of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme met to put into place plans for our ECIR research, research assistant, PhD student, team meeting (27 June 2022), communication strategy, future conference, and potential international research agreement. I really enjoy working with the productive and supportive ECIR leadership team.
VietSpeech has been profiled in the Charles Sturt University Research Bulletin
Faculty of Arts and Education: SOE Media Contributions
VietSpeech Team Recently, the VietSpeech team hosted an online launch of the free bilingual book titled "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ". The 52-page book aims to support Vietnamese-Australian children and families to maintain their home language and enhance speech skills in Vietnamese and English. It contains many strategies to support families’ teaching of Vietnamese every day at home. The free book is available here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/info
This book is the culmination of the VietSpeech research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery ARC Discovery Grant is titled Vietnamese-Australian children's speech and language competence (DP180102848) that began in 20218 and concluded in December 2021.
VietSpeech team members are here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/team
More details https://about.csu.edu.au/community/events/upcoming/online/vietspeech-book-launch
The CSU media release is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/in-brief/research-delivers-free-bilingual-book-vietspeech-to-be-launched-online
Publishing large-scale studies takes a lot of work. We recieved helpful comments on our main VietSpeech Study 2 paper which have required extensive revisions. We have been asked to combine two papers into one huge paper and do a few more analyses. I really miss working with Dr Audrey Wang - so it was nice to get back into the statistical analysis of these data today. We are very proud of the work that has gone into this paper and look foward to when it will be deemed ready for publication.
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| Dr Audrey Wang and Sharynne |
Congratulations to Sarah Faulks who submitted her Honours research proposal today titled "Bilingual language assessment for Vietnamese-Australian children". Sarah is supervised by A/Prof Sarah Verdon and her co-supervisors are Dr Van Tran and myself.
I was honoured to be invited to be keynote speaker at the European Speech and Language Therapy Association (ESLA) Congress in Salzburg, Austria on Saturday 28th May, 2022. ESLA was previously known as CPLOL.
My keynote address was titled "Children's speech: The future is now"
How exciting. The Informed SLP has reviewed:
To, C. K. S., McLeod, S., Sam, K. L., & Law, T. (2022, in press). Predicting which children will normalize without intervention for speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00444
Here's the review: https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/the-waiting-game
Some interesting stats were presented today at the Faculty of Arts and Education Forum:
This week is the European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy (ESLA) https://eslacongress.eu/ - Salzburg, Austria.
The physical location (Salzburg) is one of my favourite places in the world. The social program includes a Chamber Concert at the Salzburg Residence Palace https://www.domquartier.at/en/state-rooms/ and the Gala Dinner at Stieglkeller https://www.restaurant-stieglkeller.at/en/impressionen.
I wish I was able to attend. At least I can attend virtually as a keynote speaker.
There are two wonderful speech-language pathology conferences being held this week and I am virtually attending both of them and physically attending neither of them due to health issues.
I am so glad I can follow along on Twitter.
I have co-authored two chapters in the following book:
The Unserved: Addressing the needs of those with communication disorders
https://www.jr-press.co.uk/the-unserved.html edited by Sandra Levey and Pamela Enderby.
It is an honour to be published in this important book. Here is the description:
The International Association of Logopaedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), now called The International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders, was established in 1924. Its objective is to bring together professionals to promote research and clinical practice to support the needs of those with communication and swallowing disorders who lack health and other basic services. The Unserved, authored by members of the Association, celebrates 100 years of the IALP by presenting ideas to assist all those who work with children and adults who have difficulty in communicating or swallowing in order to improve services for unserved and underserved communities. It offers strategies to address disorders and conditions that affect many areas of everyday life and which are exacerbated by lack of adequate health, education and social services. Each chapter will be available as a free download after publication in summer 2022 on application to the Association. The print copy of the book will be published in October 2023 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of IALP.
This week is the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. It is the third year in a row that I am not attending, previously due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this time due to medical issues. However, I am co-presenting six papers, some of which I pre-recorded. I am grateful to my students and colleagues who are presenting on my behalf and am thankful for updates via Twitter and email.
Here are the papers I am co-authoring that will be presented this week:
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| Holly McAlister presenting her honours research at SPA2022 |
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| Presenting our VietSpeech research virtually |
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| Dr Suzanne Hopf and Dr Nicole McGill at the SPA AGM |
I love the stimulation of conversation with my PhD students.
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| Kate Margetson Zoom meeting - 23 May 2022 |
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| Caitlin Hurley MS Teams meeting - 30 May 2022 |
