March 18, 2010

International trans-disciplinary perspectives on speech and language

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On Wednesday 7th April, 2010 two renowned academics visited Charles Sturt University, Bathurst: Sara Howard, Reader in Clinical Phonetics, P...
March 14, 2010

Japanese, Italian and Tongan

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This week I was invited by Margaret Crapp to give a presentation to the Inner Wheel Club titled "Supporting others to realize their ful...
March 2, 2010

Vale Dr. Sadanand Singh

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I learned today that my friend, colleague and co-author, Dr. Sadanand Singh passed away on the weekend. Dr. Singh was the founder of both Si...
March 1, 2010

Visit to Macquarie University, Sydney

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Today I visited Macquarie University and met with: Dr. Felicity Cox , Department of Linguistics: Felicity is going to be working with the el...
February 25, 2010

IJSLP ranked an A journal by the Australian Government

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IJSLP ranked an A journal by the Australian Government International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has been ranked as an A journal i...

Publications in 2010

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2010 has been a good year so far for publications: JOURNAL ARTICLES Yavaş, M. & McLeod, S. (2010). Acquisition of /s/ clusters in En...

International perspectives on clinical linguistics and phonetics

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The first issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology for 2010 has as its theme: International perspectives on clinical lin...
February 23, 2010

Websites about bilingual speech acquisition

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Here are some websites that are relevant to the consideration of bilingual speech acquisition Bilingual therapies: http://blog.bilingualther...

The Future Fellowship officially begins

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My Future Fellowship officially began on Monday 8th February, 2010. What a privelidge it is to think about research full time! My first week...
December 22, 2009

CRiCS Summer School, Bathurst, Dec 2009

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I was invited to close the Centre for Research in Complex Systems biennial summer school with a 1 hour presentation titled "Speech sou...
December 13, 2009

LSAC Research Conference, Melbourne, Dec 2009

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The 2nd Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Research Conference was held in Melbourne in December, 2009. My colleagues, Linda H...

Korean

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My daughter received an award from the Korean Government for "outstanding accomplishment in Korean language study" through her loc...

HCSNet Conference, Sydney, Dec 2009

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The Human Communication Science Network Conference was held in Sydney in December 2009. It included the Australian Language and Speech Confe...
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...