December 21, 2010

Data analysis and writing research

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Throughout the year I have been very fortunate to work with two amazing research assistants: Hannah Wilkin and Jane McCormack. They have bee...
November 26, 2010

Listening to children in Philadelphia, PA, USA on Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving Day in the USA is a day for families to get together. In Philadelphia, the day starts with a parade where children line the st...
November 23, 2010

Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

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Brian Goldstein and I are co-editing a book titled Multilingual aspects of speech sound disorders in children to be published by Multilingua...

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

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This morning I taught two of Dr. Brian Goldstein's classes at Temple University: Foundations and Management in Phonological Disorders (...
November 22, 2010

American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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From 18-20 November, I attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, in Philadelphia, PA along with 14,000 other delegates. ...
November 9, 2010

Australian Research Council 2009‐10 Annual Report

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The Australian Research Council 2009-1010 Annual Report has profiled the Sound Effects Study, an ARC Discovery Research project Children wit...
October 22, 2010

Infants' Lives in Childcare

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Over the past 2 days the research team from the Infants' Lives in Childcare Project (funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Gr...
October 7, 2010

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders

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I have been invited to be an inaugural editorial board member of Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disord...
October 4, 2010

The extent and experience of living with childhood speech impairment

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On Friday 1st October, Jane McCormack submitted her PhD titled "The extent and experience of living with childhood speech impairment...

Research and higher degree students

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One of the priviledges of my job is working with my research and higher degree students. Last week: Jane McCormack submitted her PhD (see ...
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...