February 28, 2011

International speech acquisition: A world tour

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On 24th February, I presented a one-day workshop in Sydney for Speech Pathology Australia. The workshop was titled "International speec...

Year 2 begins

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During February, I have been fortunate to work with some wonderful people in order to continue to achieve the aims of my Future Fellowship. ...

Year 1 of my Future Fellowship

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The first year of my Future Fellowship concluded on 7th February, 2011. Over the past year, Kim Woodland from The Research Institute for Pro...
February 9, 2011

Hello and thank you!

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During my international travels I always try to learn to say "hello" and "thank you" in the languages and dialects of th...
January 24, 2011

Multilingual norms

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Last year the following book chapter was published: McLeod, S. (2010). Laying the foundations for multilingual acquisition: An internation...
January 20, 2011

AusTalk: An audio-visual corpus of Australian English

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I am an associate researcher on the Australian Research Council project to map Australian speech. The project is titled AusTalk: An audio-vi...
January 19, 2011

Congratulations Jane!

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Jane McCormack has received her excellent PhD examination reports while visiting Bathurst with her supervisors (A Prof Linda Harrison, A Pro...
January 14, 2011

Māori

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Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is spoken by the Māori people of New Zealand. Around the year 1300 AD, seven boats containing the Māori ...
January 13, 2011

New Zealand vs. Australia

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New Zealand and Australia are often said to have sibling rivalry. In many ways their culture and history are similar, with white (British) p...

Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, Christchurch, New Zealand

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The 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing was conducted from 11-14 January. It was held at the University of Can...

Tongan

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Tongan is spoken by the people in the Kingdom of Tonga. Fifty two of the 176 Tongan islands in the South Pacific archipelago are inhabited. ...

Children from Tonga, New Zealand, and Australia

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While visiting New Zealand, my family and I spent time with an Australian Tongan family. They come to New Zealand annually to visit relative...
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...