September 30, 2011

Speechwoman site of the month award

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Dr Caroline Bowen awarded this blog the Speechwoman Site of the Month Award for September, 2011.
September 20, 2011

July - September 2011 - Summary

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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUTURE FELLOWSHIPUPDATE ‘Speaking my language: International speech acquisition in Australia’ Written by K...
September 4, 2011

Research retreat in Sydney

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The first 3 days in September were spent in Sydney with Prof Lynn Williams (East Tennessee State University) and Dr Elise Baker (University ...

CSU Faculty of Education Forum

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The end of August saw over 100 staff from the CSU Faculty of Education come together for the Faculty Forum. Topics of discussion included ...

Children who are refugees and asylum seekers in Australia

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On 27-28 August I had the opportunity to hear Dr Sev Ozdowski, former Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner...
August 31, 2011

Publication in Viet Nam about 300 children's speech acquisition

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Lê Th ị Thanh Xuân and TS Nguy ễ n Th ị Ly Kha While I was i...
August 21, 2011

Accessing international speech assessments

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One of the aims of my Future Fellowship is to conduct a systematic review of children’s speech assessm...

Excellence in Early Years Education (EYE) Collaborative Research Network Meeting

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From 14-16 September the Excellence in Early Years Education (EYE) Collaborative Research Network me...
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...