August 15, 2012

Wiradjuri: An extinct or endangered language?

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To my surprise, when I looked into the Ethnologue , I found that my local Australian Aboriginal language - Wiradjuri - was listed as extinct...
August 14, 2012

Listening to children with speech and language impairment: Implications for teachers of young children

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The School of Teacher Education Research and Scholarship Brown Bag Seminar for Monday 13th August titled: " Listening to children...
August 12, 2012

Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

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My colleagues and I from Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology, and Monash University worked in Canberra from 9-11...
August 9, 2012

Travelling through Australia!

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 Traveling from Bathurst to Canberra today, Sarah Verdon and I experienced light snow, a stunning sunset, and a mob of sheep!

Essential support

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I am very fortunate to have two excellent research assistants to support my research endeavours. Sarah Verdon and Alice Whitfield undertake ...
August 6, 2012

Visitors from Japan

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This week a delegation from Ohkuma, Japan visited my hometown of Bathurst. Bathurst has had an ongoing sister city relationship with Ohkuma ...
August 3, 2012

June-July 2012 Summary

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

Australia's changing linguistic landscape revealed in census data

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Sarah Verdon (my PhD student) has been comparing the 2006 and 2011 Australian census figures for the languages spoken by Australian people: ...
August 1, 2012

Exciting news: Elizabeth Usher Lecture and Award

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Speech Pathology Australia has just announced that I will be presenting the Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture and will receive the Award for ...
July 30, 2012

Helping children succeed: Presentation to Bathurst Child and Family Network

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Today (30 July, 2012) Dr Sarah McDonagh and I were invited to present a 3 hour seminar to the Bathurst Child and Family Network titled ...
July 26, 2012

Professorial forum at CSU

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Today (25 July, 2012) I participated in the Charles Sturt University Professorial Forum held in Bathurst. The professors within CSU meet thr...
July 19, 2012

The cultural and linguistic diversity of 3-year-old children with hearing loss

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The following manuscript, written by Kate Crowe (my PhD student) recently was accepted for publication: UPDATED REFERENCE (OCTOBER, 2...
July 10, 2012

Learning from children and their teachers in Tonga

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During the first week of July I took annual leave and traveled with my family to Tonga in the South Pacific. We went as a part of a delegati...
July 4, 2012

International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Executive Committee

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I am very honoured to be the Vice President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. I am now half way throug...
July 3, 2012

David Crystal receives honours of ICPLA

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In conversation with David Crystal (note the Waterford Crystal bowl) During the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Associa...

Being in the same room as my distance collaborators

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Most of the writing I do is with people who are in a different city or country to myself. Every so often I have the opportunity of being in ...
June 28, 2012

International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference

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This week is the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference held at University College Cork, in Ireland. I alw...

International expert panel on multilingual children's speech

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Today I chaired an international expert panel on multilingual children's speech in Cork, Ireland. This was the first meeting of the pan...
June 27, 2012

Growing up in Ireland

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Today I visited University College Cork, and spoke with colleagues in the speech therapy department who are using the Growing Up in Ireland ...

Kissing the Blarney Stone!

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While in Cork I had to visit Blarney Castle and kiss the Blarney Stone, that is said to give you the "gift of the gab" or the ...