July 31, 2011

First Nations, Métis and Inuit People of Canada

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While in Canada I have had the opportunity to learn about the First Nations, Inuit and Métis people of Canada. People I have learned from i...

Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Prof May Bernhardt and Prof Joe Stemberger have hosted my stay in Vancouver. While here I have presented a seminar at the University of Brit...

Bidialectal Jamaican speech

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While in Toronto, Dr Karla Washington and I have been preparing to undertake research into Jamaican children's speech acquisition. Jamai...

Learning in London and Toronto, ON, Canada

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Dr Karla Washington has hosted my visit to Ontario, Canada. During my stay we have visited the University of Western Ontario (in London, ON...
July 24, 2011

International Association for the Study of Child Language

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From 19-23 July I attended the 12th meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) held at the Université ...

Listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs

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While in Montreal, Prof Sue Roulstone (from the University of the West of England) and I have finished and submitted a book titled: Listenin...

Multilingual Montréal (Quebec, Canada)

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Montréalers have impressed me with the ease that they switch between French and English. The 2006 census indicated 59.9% of the population...
July 23, 2011

AusTalk: A national treasure

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The aim of AusTalk is to create a corpus of  high quality audio/videos of the speech of 1000 Australian adults. Each adult is recorded 3 tim...
July 14, 2011

Developing quantitative research skills through longitudinal datasets

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Researchers from Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology and Monash University met in Bathurst for a 2-day research wo...
July 2, 2011

Supporting monolingual speech pathologists' assessment of multilingual children

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During 2011 I am very fortunate to be working with Rebekah Lockart, a masters student in the speech pathology program at Macquarie Universit...
June 30, 2011

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Darwin

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This year's Speech Pathology Australia National Conference was held in Darwin from 26-29 June. With the conference being held in Darwin...
June 29, 2011

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology's first ISI impact factor

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Today the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology received it's first ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Index impact fact...
June 15, 2011

Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education, CSU

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The Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE) Research Symposium was held in Wagga Wagga from 15-16 ...
June 10, 2011

Exciting news about early years education research at CSU

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I participate within a team of early years education researchers...
June 9, 2011

January - June 2011 summary

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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUTURE FELLOWSHIP UPDATE Written by Kim Woodland, Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Ed...
June 7, 2011

Defining speech sound disorder (SSD)

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Dr Elise Baker from The University of Sydney recently visited Bathurst to work with me on our book titled: Children's speech . One of ou...
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...