January 31, 2012

Lecture given in 5 time zones on 3 continents

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This morning I gave a lecture in 5 different time zones, across 3 continents, in 2 languages (it was translated into Portuguese at one of th...
January 9, 2012

Making a difference in children's lives

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One of the guiding questions I consider during my work is: "Will this make a difference in children's lives?" Today I met a...
January 5, 2012

Talking about talking: Children's perspectives

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Talking and listening are important skills for young children to learn in order to communicate and function within society. Talking and lis...
December 23, 2011

Toddlers' speech perception

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I was interviewed by ABC Science online yesterday about an interesting new study that has examined adults, 2- and 4-year-olds' abilities...
December 17, 2011

Factors that enhance Australian speech-language pathologists’ assessment of the speech of Cantonese-speaking children

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Rebekah Lockart has finished her Masters thesis titled: Factors that enhance Australian speech-language pathologists’ assessment of the spe...
December 16, 2011

Reviewing published and unpublished speech assessments

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Over the past week, Nicole Limbrick has visited Bathurst. Jane McCormack and I are supervising her honou...
December 13, 2011

October - December 2011 summary

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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUTURE FELLOWSHIP UPDATE ‘Speaking my language: International speech acquisition in Australia’ Written by K...
December 8, 2011

World Report on Disability - World Health Organization symposium

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On 5-6 December I attended the a symposium hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Univer...

Assessment and intervention for Vietnamese children with speech sound disorder

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Today I spoke with (Skyped) two groups of students and their lecturer Janella Christie from Pham Ngoc Thach University in Ho Chi Minh City a...
November 26, 2011

International perspectives of infant-toddler education and care

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Over the  past two days, I have participated in a symposium at Charles Sturt University titled Infa...
November 25, 2011

Multilingual speech and language development and disorders: New book

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Today I received my copy of Communication Disorders in Multicultural...
November 24, 2011

"Different Languages, One World": Online seminar to Brazil and USA

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Two universities from the US: East Tennessee State University and the University of Northern Iowa  and two ...
November 23, 2011

Speech-language pathologists’ knowledge of consonant production

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A special issue of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics has just been published to celebrate Martin J...
November 21, 2011

American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, San Diego, CA, USA

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From 17-19 November, I attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, in San Diego, CA along with 12,000+ other delegates. My ...