Speaking my languages

Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

November 27, 2009

Difference vs. disorder: Indigenous Australian children

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Bethany Toohill submitted her honours thesis titled: Childhood speech impairment: Co-occurrence with language, hearing, pre-literacy, and o...

Afrikaans: South Africa

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Afrikaans is the language of the Afrikaner and originated in South Africa when Dutch Settlers were required to communicate with the native K...

Jamaican Creole: Jamaica

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Dr Karla Washington was born in Jamaica and currently lives in Canada. I am a co-supervisor on her postdoctoral research program. We are wo...

Auslan: Australian Sign Language

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Auslan: Australian Sign Language is spoken by people with hearing loss in Australia. Kate Crowe, my PhD student, is fluent in Auslan. Her Ph...

Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children

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Williams, A. L., McLeod, S. & McCauley, R. J. (Eds.) (2010). Interventions for speech sound disorders in children . Baltimore, MA: Paul ...
November 25, 2009

Cajun French and Cajun English: Louisiana USA

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Sharynne bravely holding an alligator during the Cajun Encounters swamp tour Captain Mike of Cajun Encounters, a speaker of Cajun English, ...

ASHA Convention, New Orleans, Nov 2009

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The 2009 American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention was held in New Orleans (noo-or-lenz) with 10,000 speech pathologists (SLPs) and audiol...

Diversity Champion

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I received a Diversity Champion award at the 2009 ASHA Convention in New Orleans and was featured on a Wall of Fame display in the Ernest N....
November 2, 2009

Wiradjuri: Australian Aboriginal language

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Wiradjuri is an Aboriginal language spoken by the Wiradjuri people. The Wiradjuri land extends from Gilgandra and Dubbo (north),...

Celebration at Parliament House, Canberra

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A/Prof Gary Luck and Prof Sharynne McLeod ARC Future Fellows from Charles Sturt University On 28th October, the 2009 Future Fellows were in...

Future Fellowship announced

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Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT0990588) Project title: Speaking my languages: International speech acquisition in Austr...
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