May 27, 2011

Variations in pronunciation: Acceptable or not?

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  While travelling in Viet Nam and Hong Kong I have been made very aware of the need to think about 3 categories of pronunciation: 1. ...
May 24, 2011

Cantonese speech and language assessments

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A/Prof Kathy Lee demonstrating the soon to be released Cantonese Tone Identification Test (CanTIT) I spent time in Hong Kong talking ab...
May 22, 2011

The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists

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On Sunday 22nd May I presented a workshop to approximately 80 speech therapists for The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists. The work...

Thank you Việt Nam

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 My 2 weeks in Việt Nam were a special time. I learned so much from the students, interpreters, and staff at Pham Ngoc Thach University. M...
May 19, 2011

Speech therapy for children in Việt Nam

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Today I visited Children's Hospital Number 1 (CH1) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Ms Yen, the head of the rehabilitation department of the ...
May 17, 2011

Listening to children in Việt Nam

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While in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), I have been able to observe and meet a number of Vietnamese children. One aspect of many children’s ever...

Speech assessments for Vietnamese children

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I have been teaching (and learning) about the assessment of children with speech sound disorders to (and from) students in the Speech Therap...
May 9, 2011

Speech Therapy Training Program, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Việt Nam

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During May I am visiting Việt Nam to teach Assessment and Treatment of Disorders of Speech in Children to students in the Speech Therapy Tra...

Buddhist teaching

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When teaching and presenting seminars in Buddhist countries, I am aware of the perspective of teaching and learning from some of my students...
May 3, 2011

Vietnamese

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  There is one official language (and pronunciation) in Viet Nam; however, in each of the 58 provinces, pronunciation of consonants and vowe...

Computer design students' ISA prototype development

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Masters students from East Tennessee State University (ETSU), USA who are studying Computer Science-Information Technology have been working...
May 2, 2011

Learning from local speech pathologists

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L-R: Angela Leake, Anastasia Scott, Meredith Porter (and Mitchell), Lisa Farley, Natalie Reeves, Christine Porter Today I had lunch with...
April 29, 2011

The research student journey

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I have been at the Albury campus of Charles Sturt University (CSU) over the past few days. One reason for my visit was to celebrate with D...
April 20, 2011

Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara

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Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara are two similar, but distinct dialects of the Western Desert language group spoken by the Anangu people i...
April 16, 2011

Uluru, Kata Tjuta and the Anangu people in central Australia

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During April I have taken annual leave with my family. We are visiting Ulu r u - Kata Tju t a National Park in the centre of Australia. Ulu ...
April 14, 2011

Statistics

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I spent today in a workshop run by Alan Taylor from Macquarie University on SPSS (R) Statistics Training. It was useful to brush up my stat...
April 9, 2011

History of Electropalatography

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This week I worked with Bill Hardcastle from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh on our book titled Electropalatography for Speech Asse...
March 29, 2011

Cantonese

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Cantonese is spoken by over 40 million people in southern China in the Guangdong (including Hong Kong) and Guangxi Provinces, as well as in ...

Visitor from Hong Kong

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Dr Carol Kit Sum To has spent the week in Bathurst at Charles Sturt University. Carol and I worked together at the University of Hong Kong l...
March 23, 2011

Memorial service for the people of Ōkuma and Japan

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Over 140 members of the Bathurst community came together at Bathurst City Uniting Church on Wednesday 23 March for a memorial service for ...