February 29, 2012

2012 Research Higher Degree Students

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I am very fortunate to work with wonderful, dedicated and enthusiastic research higher degree students. During 2012 I will be working with ...
February 25, 2012

Just published: Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

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Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children has just been published by Multilingual Matters in the UK. Details about the book...
February 21, 2012

Listening to children talking about talking

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One of our participants showing off his work Over the past weeks Hannah Wilkin (primary education student), Elissa Shand (speech path...
February 19, 2012

Babycam enables us to consider infants' lives while at childcare

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Baby's view (image from Press et al., 2011) Observer's view (image from Press et al., 2011) For the past few years, I have b...
February 16, 2012

CSU: For the public good

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February is the beginning of the academic year for Australian universities (unlike my northern hemisphere colleagues). So, at Charles Sturt ...
February 14, 2012

Publications for 2011

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Each year universities require their staff to report on their productivity during the year. Here is my list of publications for 2011. I have...
February 4, 2012

Recognition of Jamaican as a language

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Dr Karla Washington This week Dr Karla Washington and I have been preparing for our Jamaican speech acquisition project. We are having ...
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...