April 21, 2012

Student graduation

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Rebekah Lockart graduated on 20th April with a Master of Speech and Language Pathology from the Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of L...
April 11, 2012

Supervision of distance and part-time higher degree research students

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Today I coordinated a supervisory workshop for the CSU Research Office titled "Supervision of distance, remote and part-time higher deg...
April 9, 2012

Children's books in languages other than English

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As part of my Future Fellowship research I have collected many children's books written in languages other than English. I have been c...
April 7, 2012

Dr Yvonne Wren's visit

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Over Easter Dr Yvonne Wren and her family visited Bathurst. I have worked with Yvonne in Bristol on a number of occasions, and we have worke...
April 6, 2012

Just published: Intelligibility in Context Scale

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The following manuscript has just been published      McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J. & McCormack, J.  (2012). Intelligibility in Contex...
March 31, 2012

What’s new in child language research

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On Friday I attended a seminar held at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne titled: "What’s new in child language research: I...

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology editorial board

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I am the editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (www.informahealthcare.com/ijslp). This week we had our annual ed...
March 21, 2012

The research support crew

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Quality research does not occur without a quality research support crew. This morning I drove to the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt Uni...
March 20, 2012

Learning more about Australia's children via LSAC

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Over the past two days I have worked with colleagues from Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology, and Monash Universi...

Mapping Australian children's access to services

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Today Sarah Verdon (my PhD student) and I spoke with Simon McDonald from the Spatial Analysis Network at Charles Sturt University about mapp...
March 19, 2012

The popularity of informal speech assessments: A taboo subject

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The topic of the wide-spread use of unpublished/home-made/informal speech assessments is rarely discussed (or disclosed) within research lit...
March 9, 2012

Supporting children's speech and language development

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Last night I spoke to 404 parents and teachers at 30 rural and remote schools throughout the state of New South Wales (NSW) as part of the D...
March 2, 2012

January-February 2012 summary

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