September 22, 2010

Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Speech Pathology Conference

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I presented a 2-day workshop at the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Speech Pathology Conference held at La...
September 16, 2010

Conversing with the world

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Avril Nicoll, editor of  Speech and Language Therapy in Practice  has written an article about my Future Fellowship travels during 2010. Spe...
September 9, 2010

Experiencing language through the eyes of an outsider

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One important aspect of my recent travels has been to put myself into the shoes of people who move to Australia who do not speak English. Bi...

Speech assessment and intervention using electropalatography

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From 7-10 September I have been in Edinburgh at Queen Margaret University working with Sara Wood and Bill Hardcastle. We have been writing o...
September 5, 2010

Visiting Stockholm

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I visited Stockholm from 4-6 September to learn more about Swedish and to meet with the editorial staff of informahealthcare, who publish th...

Revisiting Speech and Language Therapy Reseach Unit, Bristol

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Between 30 August and 3rd September I revisited the Speech and Language Therapy Reseach Unit, Bristol to continue working with colleagues in...
August 27, 2010

2010 publications (update)

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Earlier this year I listed my 2010 publications: http://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2010/02/publications-in-2010.html Here are the jo...

Gaining wisdom in Athens

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Athens is named for Athena, the godess of wisdom. Athena is often accompanied by an owl, so in Athens (as in much of the world), the owl is ...
August 24, 2010

International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Symposium

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At the IALP conference in Athens, Jane McCormack and I organised a syposium on the development of clinical tools for considering communicati...
August 22, 2010

Greek

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Dhimotiki is the official version of Modern Greek spoken in Greece since 1976. Greek has • 31 consonants including allophones and affric...
August 13, 2010

International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Conference - Athens, Greece

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Between 22-26th August I have attended the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics  (IALP) in Athens, Greece. This associati...

Writing a literature review for PhD students

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On Thursday 12th September I was invited to present at seminar for 37 new PhD students studying at Charles Sturt University. The seminar was...
August 4, 2010

Silozi: A Zambian language

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Silozi is the language spoken by the Lozi people who primarily live in Western Province in Zambia (including in Mwandi). Silozi consists of...

Listening to children at the Mwandi Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Project, Zambia

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I was very honoured to spend a few days visiting the Mwandi Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Western Province of Zambia on the Za...

Children’s home environment and the impact on literacy in Africa

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At the ISSBD conference (see earlier post) Damaris Ngorosho, from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania presented an invited paper title...

Listening to children in Mukuni village, Zambia

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Mukuni village is a traditional Zambian village close to Victoria Falls. The village represents how the Mukuni people have lived for h...
July 22, 2010

African educational theories and practices

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African educational theories and practices: A generative teacher education handbook (Editors: Bame Nsamenang and Therese M.S.T. Tchombe, C...

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Lusaka, Zambia

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Conference: International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Lusaka, Zambia 18-22 July, 2010. I have been attendin...

Languages in Zambia

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Zambia is a country in southern Africa. There are approximately 10 million people living in Zambia and 45% are between 0-14 years old. Ther...

Madiba Nelson Mandela’s impact throughout the world

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Nelson Mandela’s cross cultural influence has been obvious throughout this trip. While in Oslo, Norway, Nelson Mandela’s photograph, sayin...