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

May 24, 2010

Hong Kong University

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As part of my Future Fellowship I am travelling to a number of countries over the next 2 months. The first place I visited was Hong Kong ...
May 21, 2010

Listening to children

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One of the privileges of this Future Fellowship is listening to children. I am about to visit countries from Asia to Africa (via USA, Euro...
May 20, 2010

Book: Children's speech

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Dr Elise Baker (The University of Sydney) and I have been working together on a number of projects. While we were in Melbourne we co-present...

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference

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The Speech Pathology Australia National Conference was held in Melbourne this year. Mr Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabiliti...

Sound Effects Study writing retreat

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The Sound Effects Study was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant from 2007-2009. Linda Harrison, Lindy McAllister, Jane...
May 11, 2010

Vietnam’s first speech therapy degree

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Australian Volunteers International and Trinh Foundation Australia is supporting Vietnam’s first speech therapy degree, to start at Pham Ngo...
May 10, 2010

Multilingual children with hearing loss: Communication choices and outcomes

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Kate Crowe (centre) with her supervisors Prof. Sharynne McLeod and Dr. Teresa Ching On Friday 7th May Kate Crowe, my PhD student present...
May 7, 2010

Occasional address at the CSU graduation

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I was invited to give the occasional address at the Charles Sturt University Faculty of Education graduation ceremony today. My address was ...
May 3, 2010

IJSLP accepted by Medline

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I have just learned that IJSLP has been accepted for indexing by Medline. This is a very significant moment for the journal and will ensure ...
April 28, 2010

Multilingual Australia

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Australia is a very multilingual society. Of the languages other than English reported to be used at home, the most dominant languages are I...

Amazing Australia

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As part of my Future Fellowship I have travelled to different places in Australia. Here are a few photos to show our amazing country.

Speech Pathology Australia National Tour

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Speech Pathology Australia National Tour: Working With Children From Multilingual Backgrounds Presented by Associate Professor Cori Willia...
April 24, 2010

HCSNet Workshop: Advances in Speech Production

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This week I attended the HCSNet Workshop: Advances in Speech Production: Tools, Techniques and Recent Research at University of Western Sydn...

CSU speech pathology graduation

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On Thursday I went to Charles Sturt University in Albury to celebrate the graduation of: Bethany Toohill who graduated with BHlthSc(Sp Path...
April 14, 2010

Big ASC: Big Australian Speech Corpus

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Over the past 2 days I have been in Sydney to work with Australia's best linguists and phoneticians to develop protocols for the Big ASC...

Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

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My latest book officially began today. Within 12 hours of inviting authors over a third have said yes! I am looking forward to working with ...
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...
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