Celebrating graduations of my research students

Congratulations to my research students who have graduated during 2024. 

• Dr Marie Ireland
• Dr Kate Margetson
• Dr Belinda Downey
• Sarah Bartlett

Due to CSU changing the graduation ceremony dates - they clashed with my previously organised international travel - so I was unable to attend their graduations ceremonies. So, over the past few weeks, I was able to borrow academic gowns and celebrate in person.

Congratulations!

Dr. Marie Ireland (celebrating at ASHA 2024)

 

Sarah Bartlett - Graduate Certificate in Research

Celebrating at The Treehouse during ECV2024

Dr Kate Margetson

Dr Belinda Downey

Thank you Dr. Helen L. Blake

 What would I do without Helen Blake working with me. She is magnificent. Here are a few of the thinks she has accomplished this year. Wow!

1.    Conduct ethical, high-quality research through scholarship, publication and presentation:

• Co-author of Persian chapter and Australian English chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World
• Co-editor of Multilingual Matters book, initial communication with authors
• Co-author of journal articles/book chapters
• Co-author of Vietnamese English chapter in Linguistic Varieties in North America: A Primer for Speech and Language Practitioners
• Co-editor of Early Childhood Voices Conference Proceedings (ECV2024)

2.    Work closely with the Professorial Fellow to organise and take part in research initiatives, events, mentorship:

• Assisted with The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World as required – chapters (Slovenian, Hungarian), co-editing, QA of author submitted PowerPoints and video and audio recordings, and associated presentations
• Assisted with update of Multilingual Children’s Speech website https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/home
• Managing requests to translate the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) and Speech Participation and Activity Assessment of Children (SPAA-C) into other languages

3.    Identify and create opportunities for collaborative research projects:

• Participate in Rural Health Research Institute: Project 8

4.    Establish and maintain strategic relationships and networks:

• Preparation/presentation of conference presentations: ECV24, ASHA, IALP symposium, ICPLA, ISB15, ISMBS
• Member of scientific review committee for ECV24 and ICPLA25

5.    Provide leadership and manage small research teams:

• ECV2024 Multilingual Speech and Publications committee co-chairs, attend meetings
• PhD co-supervision – Sara Kablaoui

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024) SUMMARY

The Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024) was held from 25-28 November 2024. Organised by the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR), this virtual and asynchronous event brought together 1,338 researchers and professionals from 54 countries:

Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia

LAUNCH: On Monday 25th November, the conference was officially launched by Professor Renée Leon, Vice-Chancellor and President, at a live-streamed event on the Bathurst campus. Professor Tony Dreise presented a keynote address entitled Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’. The audience enjoyed the music played by the Assumption Catholic Primary School Band. Students from the band also formed a press gallery to report on the launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBtflnofQ8). Afterwards, guests on campus visited the Treehouse for popcorn and refreshments.

WEBSITE: The conference website can be viewed here https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/ 

KEYNOTES: Over four days, ECV2024 showcased the work of the four keynote presentations, 

STREAMS: 147 oral presentations, and 200+ children’s drawings across three streams:

• Early childhood voices: international interdisciplinary research: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/by-topics/
  
• Multilingual children's speech development: https://multilingual-childrens-speech-development.csu.domains/by-language/
  
• Children draw playing global online gallery: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/children-draw-playing/
  

SYNCHRONOUS PARTICIPATION: Participants also engaged in six yarning circle discussions and a workshop on understanding different communications methods presented by Shirley Wong, who has lived experience of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices.

Here is the summary Dr Carolyn Gregoric wrote for the School of Education newsletter:

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024

The Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024), held from November 25 to 28, has just concluded, leaving a lasting impact on all participants. Organised by the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group (ECIR), this virtual and asynchronous event brought together 1,338 researchers and professionals from 54 countries.

On Monday 25th November, the conference was officially launched by Professor Renée Leon, Vice-Chancellor and President, at a livestreamed event on the Bathurst campus. Professor Tony Dreise presented a keynote address entitled Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’. The audience enjoyed the music played by the Assumption Catholic Primary School Band. Students from the band also formed a press gallery to report on the launch. Afterwards, guests on campus visited the Treehouse for popcorn and refreshments.

Over four days, ECV2024 showcased the work of the four keynote presentations, 147 oral presentations, and 200+ children’s drawings across three streams - early childhood voices: international interdisciplinary research, multilingual children's speech development and children draw playing global online gallery. 

Participants also engaged in six yarning circle discussions and a workshop on understanding different communications methods presented by Shirley Wong, who has lived experience of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices.

The conference website can be viewed here https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/

 

Caregivers’ insights into supporting their late talkers using a Hanen® Parent Program

Congratulations Sarah Bartlett - whose manuscript from her Graduate Certificate has just been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Here are the details: Bartlett, S. & McLeod, S. (2024, in press). Caregivers’ insights into supporting their late talkers using Target Word™ Hanen® Parent Program.  International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Here is the abstract: 

Purpose. To explore caregivers’ experiences and engagement during the 16-week Target Word™ Hanen Program® for Parents program designed to support late talkers.
Method. Qualitative interpretative description (ID) methodology was used to understand the experience of five caregivers who had completed Target Word™ to support their children (aged 18-36 months). Caregivers attended a focus group to share their perspectives. Transcripts of these focus groups were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
Result. Two themes were identified. Firstly, that caregivers described explicit roles for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to support their engagement over time: in the beginning (clarify expectations), middle (enable caregiver to link changes in their behaviour to positive child outcomes) and final (empowered caregivers) phases of the intervention. Secondly, that caregiver engagement in learning is individual, influenced by (a) individual needs and expectations, (b) active engagement during key learning moments, (c) influence of the broader environment.
Conclusion. Each caregiver participating in Target Word™ experienced unique engagement journeys over the course of the program. SLPs can explicitly facilitate engagement at each phase of Target Word™ to promote active engagement for learning and ultimately caregiver empowerment to support their children’s language growth.

Here is a photo of Sarah and I wearing our academic gowns this week. CSU changed their graduation dates in 2024 - and I was unavailable on the new dates. It was great to celebrate Sarah's graduation and accomplishments in Bathurst.

Congratulations Associate Professor Ben Phạm

Associate Professor Ben Phạm with her family
at the Temple of Literature

I am so proud of my colleague Dr Ben Phạm who was promoted to Associate Professor by the Vietnamese Office of Professorship Council.

In 2024 there were only 27 candidates in Education Sciences who were promoted to Associate Professor across the whole of VietNam. Ben was the only one who specialized in Special Education for children with speech and language disorders. 

She received the certificate from the Vietnamese Government on 29 November 2024 at the 1000 year old Temple of Literature in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, the first University in Vietnam.

Ben and I visited the Temple of Literature together in 2016 and dreamed of this day when she would receive an award there https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-temple-of-literature-in-ha-noi_2.html

Congratulations Ben.

I am so honoured to continue collaborating with Ben in many ways since she began her PhD with me in 2014. Here is a paper that we wrote together that has just been published 

Phạm, B., & McLeod, S. (2024). Considerations of dialect on the identification of speech sound disorder in Vietnamese-speaking children. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 59(6), 2208-2216. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12992

Final email to Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme members

Here is the email that I just sent to the members of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme this evening

Early Childhood Voices 2024 (ECV2024)
Thank you for all you have done to ensure that the Early Childhood Voices 2024 conference was a success this week
https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/
At 6pm on Thursday 1333 people from 54 countries had registered to attend our amazing 4 keynotes, 147 oral presentations and children's voices presentations across three streams, yarning circles, and a workshop

• STREAM 1: Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research - https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/by-topics/
• STREAM 2: Multilingual children's speech development - https://multilingual-childrens-speech-development.csu.domains/
• STREAM 3: Children draw playing global online galleries - https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/children-draw-playing/

As you know, you can continue to access the conference any time as the website will remain online.
Conference proceedings: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ECV2024-BOOK-FINAL.pdf

Make sure you look at the Children’s Press Gallery video summarizing their reporting of the launch (found underneath the Acknowledgment of Country video - https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/)

A HUGE thank you to Dr Carolyn Gregoric, our conference secretary and Dr Belinda Downey, our conference co-chair,  and to all of you for your roles (large and small) to ensure ECV2024 was a success. As our keynote speaker said – it takes a village to raise a village.

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme
We have come to the end of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Sturt Scheme (ECIR). We have achieved so much together. Our final report is attached. Please feel proud of all you have achieved together.

Exciting news: Children’s Voices Centre (CVC)

Yesterday, Vice Chancellor Professor Renée Leon approved the establishment of the Children’s Voices Centre for three years (2025-2027). HOORAY!!! We have just (soft) launched the Children’s Voices Centre website so you can find out more  https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre. We will provide more details in February 2025.

We are excited about what the future holds for our team and look forward to future collaborations to make a difference in children’s lives across the world. Thank you and best wishes for the holiday season.

Approval for the establishment of the Children's Voices Centre and collaboration with WHO

I have just received formal approval for the establishment of the Children's Voices Centre at Charles Sturt University (2025-2027). What an amazing moment in my life - and opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children across the world!

https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre/home

We also signed off on the Terms of Reference to collaborate with the World Health Organization on a 2-year project.

Invited, keynote, and public lectures in 2024

 2024 has been a busy year (and this list doesn't include the regular conference presentations)!

1. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L., Margetson, K., & Verdon, S. (2024, December). Culturally appropriate assessment in international contexts. [Invited 1-hour session]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA, USA. https://convention.asha.org/ 
2. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, Oct 19-20). Children’s speech assessment and intervention: What works? What’s new? What’s the evidence?. [2-day invited workshop]. Chinese University of Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Social Enterprise. Hong Kong, SAR China
3. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, Oct 18). Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL). [3-hour invited lecture]. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
4. McLeod, S. & Wren, Y. (2024, September 12-14). Children’s communication, educational, social and participation outcomes: Insights from longitudinal population studies [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil. https://www.congressoforl.org/
5. McLeod, S. (2024, September 12-14). Multilingual children’s speech development, assessment and interventions [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil https://www.congressoforl.org/
6. McLeod, S. (2024, September 12-14). Communication rights and the Sustainable Development Goals [Invited keynote]. 23rd Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Foundation [23o Congresso da FORL], Sao Paulo, Brazil https://www.congressoforl.org/
7. McLeod, S., Blake, H. L. & Margetson, K. (2024, June 27-29). Multilingual speech development and disorders: A contemporary perspective of children’s speech development in languages of the world [Invited presentation]. 100th Anniversary Celebration of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), Vienna, Austria (online). https://ialp-org.com/event/9853/
8. McLeod, S. (2024, June). Are we really listening to children? [Invited keynote]. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 2024 Summer Lecture, London, UK (online).
9. McLeod, S. (2024, May 23). Multilingual children’s speech. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor Presentation. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/visitors-for-202324/sharynne_mcleod/
10. McLeod, S. (2024, May 15). Communication professionals need to advocate for communication rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. [Seminar]. School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University. Bangor, UK. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/arts-culture-language/dlelb
11. McLeod, S. (2024, May 3). Communication rights and social justice: Enhancing communicative participation for children with speech, language and communication needs. [Seminar]. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK. https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/
12. McLeod, S. (2024, April 30). All children should be seen AND heard: The importance of communication so children can thrive. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and Underwood Trust Annual Lecture, Bristol, UK. https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/Bristol-Speech-Language-Therapy-Research-Unit
13. McLeod, S. (2024, April 29). Speech, language and communication: An overview for dentists. [Invited lecture]. Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor Presentation. Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/visitors-for-202324/sharynne_mcleod/
14. McLeod, S. (2024, April 24). Communicating with children and families in a multilingual world. [Invited lecture]. School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University Lecture, Llandaff, Wales, UK.
15. McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. (2024, April 18). Assessing children’s speech in unfamiliar languages: Insights from Vietnamese-English children [Invited keynote]. XI LLDI Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.  
16. McLeod, S. (2024, February). Supporting monolingual and multilingual children’s phonological development. [Invited keynote]. 2024 Nancy McKinley Lecture organised by the American Board of Child Language & Language Disorders (online).  https://www.speechpathology.com/slp-ceus/course/supporting-monolingual-and-multilingual-children-10849

Congratulations Jane Garner

Congratulations to Jane Garner who has just learned she was promoted to Associate Professor. She does such important research with worldwide impact. I was honoured to work with her on her promotion documentation to ensure that her excellent work shone through the words and boxes.

CSU Conscia Mentoring Program - End-of-Program Celebration

This morning was the CSU Conscia Mentoring Program - End-of-Program Celebration. 

I have been a mentor for Belinda Cash, and also a group of colleagues about writing/editing books. It has been a productive year - and I have learned a lot.

CSU had 56 mentors and 83 mentees this year.
Here is the summary of the celebration event:

This program has provided a valuable opportunity to learn from experienced researchers, enhancing your skills in research capabilities, outputs, and leadership, as well as supporting your career development.
This celebration will be a chance to share your experiences, provide feedback, and offer suggestions for future initiatives.
An overview of how this program can enhance your Research Performance Indicator (RPI) will also be provided.
We look forward to celebrating with you!

Cathy LeCerf
on behalf of the Faculty Associate Deans of Research

 

ECV2024 - registrations

At 6pm on Thursday 28th November ECV2024 had 1333 registrations from 54 countries/regions: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia

• Australia    856
• Hong Kong (SAR China)    64
• United Kingdom    54
• United Kingdom (England)    1
• United Kingdom (Scotland)    1
• United Kingdom (Wales)    1
• USA    50
• United States Minor Outlying Islands    4
• South Africa    49
• Ghana    45
• Canada    28
• Nigeria    17
• Ireland    15
• Singapore    12
• Iran    9
• Bangladesh    8
• Brazil    8
• Nepal    8
• China    6
• Fiji    6
• Pakistan    6
• Philippines    6
• Portugal    6
• Israel    5
• Netherlands    5
• New Zealand    5
• Kosovo    4
• Malaysia    4
• India    4
• Spain    3
• Denmark    3
• Indonesia    3
• Germany    3
• Namibia    3
• Burundi    2
• Ethiopia    2
• Hungary    2
• Iceland    2
• Kuwait    2
• Poland    2
• Uganda    2
• Afghanistan    1
• Benin    1
• Bulgaria    1
• Colombia    1
• Finland    1
• France    1
• Greece    1
• Jordan    1
• Malta    1
• Morocco    1
• Norway    1
• Qatar    1
• Saudi Arabia    1
• Slovenia    1
• Sweden    1
• United Arab Emirates    1
• Zambia    1

Map created by Simon McDonald, Spatial Analysis Network, Charles Sturt University
Sources: Esri, TomTom, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community, Esri, USGS

Conversations with Oxford University Press

Julia Steer, Linguistics Editor for Oxford University Press invited Dr Helen Blake and myself to discuss ideas for increasing OUP's coverage of speech-language pathology/speech and language therapy titles as a new mission and business proposition. We had lots of ideas.

ECV2024 presentations by our team

Here are the presentations from our team at ECV2024 this week

1. Children draw talking: Interdisciplinary insights into drawings from 200 children from 24 countries - Sharynne McLeod, Carolyn Gregoric, Jessamy Davies, Lysa Dealtry, Laura Delli-Pizzi, Belinda Downey, Sheena Elwick, Suzanne C. Hopf, Nicola Ivory, Holly McAlister, Elizabeth Murray, Azizur Rahman, Shukla Sikder, Van H. Tran, Cherie Zischke
2. Building The Treehouse: A physical and virtual children’s research environment co-designed with children, colleagues, community - Sharynne McLeod
3. Indigenous children’s speech, language and communication: Identifying and co-creating resources and services - Sharynne McLeod, Emily-Jane Woodhead, Sarah Bartlett, Ebony Hay, Carolyn Gregoric
4. Using an implementation science framework to co-design and test the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL) - Kate Margetson and. Sharynne McLeod
5. Voices and visions: Engaging children with childhood apraxia of speech in intervention research- Marie Ireland, Anna Cronin, Jane McCormack, Sharynne McLeod, Cen Wang, Caroline Tiong
6. Adaptation of the Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol for collecting children’s experiences of play - Carolyn Gregoric, Shukla Sikder, Suzanne C. Hopf, and Sharynne McLeod
7. “Absolutely cuddled out” – Building personal resources to build retention - Belinda Downey, Will Letts, Leanne Gibbs, and Sharynne McLeod
8. Caregiver implemented intervention for early communication development: A review of evidence for Hanen® programs - Sarah Bartlett and Sharynne McLeod
9. Children on Australian university campuses: A rapid review of internal policies, guidelines, and procedures - Carolyn Gregoric, Sharynne McLeod, Suzanne C. Hopf, and Claudio Dionigi
10. Multilingual children’s speech development - Sharynne McLeod and Helen L. Blake
11. Children’s speech development: English (Australian) - Sharynne McLeod and Helen L. Blake
12. Children’s speech development: English (Fiji) - Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Paul A. Geraghty, Sharynne McLeod
13. Children’s speech development: English + Vietnamese - Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, Sarah Verdon, Ben Phạm 
14. Children's speech development: Cantonese - Carol Kit Sum To, Pamela Cheung, Sharynne McLeod
    
15. Children’s speech development: Vietnamese - Ben Phạm, Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van H. Tran, Sarah Verdon - https://multilingual-childrens-speech-development.csu.domains/ecv2024-570/

Possibility of mobility visit for PhD student from Nord University

Tonight I had a wonderful conversation with Camilla and her two PhD supervisors from Nord University about the possibility of her visiting CSU for 6 months next year. Camilla has Sami heritage and is studying language maintenance of Sami children in Norway. I hope we are able to welcome her to CSU next year - there are so many areas of overlap between our work.

Close of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group Sturt Scheme

In the afternoon after the launch of the Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference (ECV2024) we had the celebration and closure of the 3-year Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group Sturt Scheme. We have achieved so much over the past three years and are so grateful for the funding to employ Dr Carolyn Gregoric, buy some time for our leadership team, fund a research student, and some scholarly activities.

ECIR members in Bathurst

Dr Carolyn Gregoric, A/Prof Sarah Verdon, Dr Suzanne Hopf,
Dr Libbey Murray, Prof Sharynne McLeod

Most ECIR meetings were conducted via Zoom - so our cake celebrated this!

ECV2024 launch

Today the Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference (ECV2024) was launched.

https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/

What a joyful and celebratory occasion. Thank you to EVERYONE who played a role to make it happen. Our keynote speaker, Prof Tony Dreise discussed how it not only takes a village to raise a child - we also have to raise the village. Our ECV2024 launch was living proof of the village raising the village.

Thank you to the students from Assumption Catholic Primary School who provided the music - and also were the press gallery documenting the occasion.

Thank you to Vice Chancellor Renee Leon for launching the event and Professor Tony Dreise for providing the keynote address.

Thank you to Dr Belinda Downey, conference co-chair and Dr Carolyn Gregoric, conference secretary.

ECV2024 launch

ECV2024 launch

Assumption Catholic School Band

Vice Chancellor Renée Leon - Launching ECV2024

 

Prof Tony Dreise - Keynote speaker

Press Gallery - Assumption Primary School

Dr Belinda Downey - Conference co-chair

Dr Carolyn Gregoric - Conference Secretary

Dr Tamara Cumming - Keynote Speaker

Deputy Vice Chancellor-Research Mark Evans with Sharynne

Kevin Ng in the TV studio - livestreaming the event

Prof Sharynne McLeod describing the global reach of the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group

ECV2024 social media

 Here are the social media links for ECV2024

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/240093224084969
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kate-margetson-43a584212_early-childhood-voices-online-conference-activity-7266691767008137216-iot0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
 
X: https://x.com/CSU_ECRG/status/1860913287988494795
 
https://x.com/CSU_ECRG/status/1860915328664191072

ECV2024: Events and opportunities

ECV2024 starts tomorrow.
We are so pleased to welcome you - 1290 people from 55 countries.
 
How to join
To view presentations and the online children’s drawing gallery, from 9am Monday 25th November (AEDT*)

Click here: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/

CVENT version: https://cvent.csu.edu.au/hub/events/0d591439-4c54-4f18-8620-1f37f00582f4

To join live sessions click the button below. You will need to modify your registration to include access to the live launch and the six yarning circles.

Register for live events: https://cvent.csu.edu.au/event/0d591439-4c54-4f18-8620-1f37f00582f4/register

 
To participate in ECV2024
View conference presentations by clicking on the following link https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/

ECV2024 showcases 4 keynotes, 147 oral presentations and children's voices across three streams.
•    STREAM 1: Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research
•    STREAM 2: Multilingual children's speech development
•    STREAM 3: Children draw playing global online galleries

Watch the conference launch
Online (livestream), in person, or on demand

Livestream from 10.30am Monday 25th November (AEDT*). This will include a live keynote address by Professor Tony Dreise - Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’
AEDT* (Sydney time zone = 11 hours AHEAD of London = 18 hours AHEAD of Los Angeles – your time zone may be the day earlier than indicated)

View keynote presentations

• Dr Elizabeth Shuey - Developing and retaining a workforce for high-quality early childhood education and care
• Professor Jenny L. Gibson - Neurodiversity-affirming approaches to play: Perspectives from research with autistic children and adults
• Professor Tony Dreise - Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’ (available after launch event)
• Dr Tamara Cumming - Embracing systems thinking to open conditions of possibility for the early childhood education workforce

Immerse yourself in children’s perspectives
Children from around the world have shared their perspectives on play through our Children Draw Playing Global Online  Galleries. What are they saying to you about play? View the gallery here

Ask a child to draw. Submissions to the drawing gallery are open to 30 November. Further details https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/go/ECV24-ChildrenDrawCreate

Join a yarning circle
Register now on Cvent to join the live yarning circle discussions with other conference participants:

• Communications and multilingual speech yarning circle - Monday 25th November, 7pm (AEDT*)
• Family’s voices yarning circle - Tuesday 26th November, 9am (AEDT*)
• Interdisciplinary approaches to children’s rights and sustainable development outcomes yarning circle - Tuesday 26th November, 5pm (AEDT*)
• Professionals’ voices yarning circle - Wednesday 27th November, 9am (AEDT*)
• Children’s voices - Listening to children in research yarning circle - Wednesday 27th November, 5pm (AEDT*)
• Children's play, drawing and learning yarning circle - Thursday 28th November, 9am (AEDT*)

Note: These sessions will not be recorded.
AEDT* (Sydney time zone = 11 hours AHEAD of London = 18 hours AHEAD of Los Angeles – your time zone may be the day earlier than indicated)
 

Attend the workshop
Register via Cvent to join.

Understanding different communication methods – Wednesday 27th November, 12pm (AEDT*)
AEDT* (Sydney time zone = 11 hours AHEAD of London = 18 hours AHEAD of Los Angeles – your time zone may be the day earlier than indicated)
 

Ideas for how to select which presentations to view:

• Listen to at least some of the keynote speakers, they are highly respected researchers and speakers – you will benefit from listening to any (and all) of them.
• Choose a presentation according to a topic, keyword or SDG (Sustainable Development Goal).
• Registered participants can join to live sessions (Yarning Discussions) between 25–28 November.
• Think about an issue you want to learn more about. Is there a presentation that might inform your understanding of or approach to that issue?
• Think about how presentations could help inform your practice, your approach to documentation, supporting children’s communication, or your service policies.
• Look for names you recognise and you want to hear more about what they are working on now.
• Look for research from a particular area or a particular country.
• Think about what you could learn by watching a presentation from outside your immediate area – whether you come education, nursing, speech pathology, physiotherapy, psychology, libraries, or another area – you will find the others’ perspectives fascinating and useful to your practice.
• Choose something you know nothing about but that seems interesting – you never know what you might learn and what new possibilities it opens!

Reflect
Ideas to prompt group discussion and personal reflection on the presentations:

• What new ideas did the presentation raise for you – about practice, theory or other approaches?
• How might you alter your practice based on what you have learned?
• What’s your one ‘gold nugget’ from this presentation? What difference could this make to you?
• What surprised you?
• What didn’t you understand? How could you find out more?
• What did you learn about that could inform interprofessional work – especially between educators and other professionals?
• What would you like to know more about? How could you follow up on that? Have a look at the websites of the presenters and any links that they provided.
• What ideas or approaches could be applied to your work as a team?
• What short-term goal/s could you develop arising from your learning from the presentation and conference as a whole?
• Watch bilingual presentations in both languages. Did you gain other perspectives from watching both?

Share
Share you experiences and learnings from ECV2024 with peers, colleagues, students and others in your network in person, online or connect on social media.
 

Certificates of participation will be available after the conference.
 

See you there.
It is going to be a great week.
 

ECV2024 Conference team

ECV2024 statistics update

ECV2024 statistics

• Registrations = 1290
• Countries/Regions = 55

Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, VietNam, Zambia

• CVENT: https://www.csu.edu.au/ecv2024
• ECV2024 website: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2024/
• Multilingual Children's Speech YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXcSAl_dA7arRMrE0qdxLuzGChY1LgY2

ECV2024 synchronous events - Launch, Yarning Circles and Workshop

The Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference is designed to be an asynchronous conference so that anyone can attend regardless of the timezone they live in, and whether they have time during the day, or in the evening.

There are three events that  for conference participants to connect symchronously.

Launch

Conference launch including keynote speaker, Professor Tony Dreise
25/11/24, 10:30 am - 25/11/24, 12:00 pm

Six yarning circles

1. Communication and multilingual speech yarning circle - 25/11/24, 7:00 pm - 25/11/24, 8:00 pm
2. Families’ voices yarning circle - 26/11/24, 9:00 am - 26/11/24, 10:00 am
3. Interdisciplinary approaches to children’s rights and sustainable development outcomes yarning circle - 26/11/24, 5:00 pm - 26/11/24, 6:00 pm
4. Professionals’ voices yarning circle - 27/11/24, 9:00 am - 27/11/24, 10:00 am
5. Children’s voices - Listening to children in research yarning circle - 27/11/24, 5:00 pm - 27/11/24, 6:00 pm
6. Children's play, drawing and learning yarning circle - 28/11/24, 9:00 am - 28/11/24, 10:00 am 

Workshop

Understanding different communication methods - 27/11/24, 12:00 pm - 27/11/24, 1:00 pm

Thanks to Lysa Dealtry and the Yarning Circles Committee for organising this opportunity.