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

June 29, 2010

Oslo: Logopedia for children

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I was fortunate to visit the Bredtvet Resource Centre in Oslo that provides specialist assessment and intervention services for children an...
June 28, 2010

Listening to children in Norway

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Norway and the other Scandanavian countries have a strong tradition of pedagogy and listening to children. This was very apparent in so man...

International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Conference, Oslo Norway

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The 13th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Conference , was held in Oslo Norway. It was an extremely stimulating conference w...

Oslo: Children's speech acquisition workshop

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Norwegian Academy of Science I was an invited speaker at a phonological acquisition workshop held at the Norwegian Academy of Science org...

Listening to children in USA

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I was invited to visit the Child Study Centre at ETSU to find out about the program and talk with the children. The children told me...
June 9, 2010

East Tennessee State University

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From June 6-19 I visited the Centre for Excellence in Early Childhood Learning and Development at East Tennessee State University and work...

Children draw talking: Art exhibition on tour

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Children Draw Talking is an art exhibition of illustrations produced by 157 4- to 5-year-old children in the Sound Effects Study. 143 child...
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...
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