May 30, 2012

Walkie Talkies

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Kate and Hannah with their pedometres The job of a researcher requires vast amounts of sitting, thinking, reading, and typing. As a res...
May 25, 2012

March-May 2012 summary

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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUTURE FELLOWSHIP UPDATE ‘Speaking my language: International speech acquisition in Australia’ Written by Kim W...
May 15, 2012

Systematic review of speech assessments

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Sarah Verdon and I have been spending each Friday undertaking a systematic review of speech (articulation and phonology) assessments for spe...
May 11, 2012

Analysing Vietnamese children's speech with students in Ho Chi Minh City

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This afternoon I spent an hour discussing speech analysis with two groups of students from Ho Chi Minh City (via Skype) facilitated by Jan...
May 9, 2012

Help! My computer is full

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We often take our computers for granted. This week I was copying data (video and audio files as well as images from the children's draw...
May 4, 2012

International Speech Assessment: Finalization of the ETSU capstone project

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Today was the final presentation of the capstone project undertaken by the masters' students from East Tennessee State University. Over ...
May 3, 2012

Speech-language pathologists at war?

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Two journal articles have been published recently that talk about battles: McCormack, J., McAllister, L. McLeod, S. & Harrison, L. J....
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...