June 8, 2013

Studying typical Vietnamese speech acquisition in over 1000 children

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Dr Ly Kha Nguyen is a phonetics and linguistics lecturer at Phạm Ngọc Thạch University and at the HCMC University of Education and Training....
June 6, 2013

Learning about Vietnamese every chance I get

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While in Việt Nam , I am trying to learn more about Vietnamese. It is a complex language with 6 tones (thanh) and different pronunciations o...

Speech therapy students at Phạm Ngọc Thạch University

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Students having fun during a tutorial as they practiced giving speech assessments (one was the speech therapist, one was the child, on...
June 4, 2013

Teaching and learning at Pham Ngoc Thach University, Việt Nam

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Over the next two weeks I am volunteering at Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University, i n H ồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam . I am lecturing in their...
June 3, 2013

Images of Việt Nam

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Việt Nam is a vibrant and beautiful country. Here are a few contrastive images. Motorbikes in H ồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam Lotus flo...
May 30, 2013

March - May 2013 Summary

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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL FUTURE FELLOWSHIP UPDATE ‘Speaking my language: International speech acquisition in Australia’ Written by Ki...
May 25, 2013

2013 publications (so far)

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I have been asked to submit summary of my 2013 research activity. It was interesting to s ee the ratio for my journal articles : 6 s ubmitt...
May 23, 2013

Congratulations Nicole!

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Nicole Limbrick recently completed her honours degree in speech pathology. Jane McCormack and I were fortunate to be her supervisors. A jour...
May 21, 2013

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

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Today is the United Nations' World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. H ere are the aims for 2013 "To rai...
May 16, 2013

Congratulations Jane!

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Today Jane McCormack was awarded second place in the Pursuit Awards for PhDs in the field of child disability research. There were 19 applic...
May 11, 2013

The importance of international travel and multicultural friendships

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Statement 4 of the Multilingual Children’s Speech Position P aper sa ys ‘‘SLPs aspire to develop rich partnerships with families, communitie...
May 9, 2013

Review of Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children

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A review of our book “Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children” has been published in The Phonetician , Volume 105-106 (2...
May 8, 2013

Time out with my family

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Over the past few weeks I have taken long-service leave to spend time with my family. Most of the time time I did not have internet access, ...
April 29, 2013

International aspirations for speech-language pathologists’ practice with multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Development of a position paper

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The following manuscript has been accepted for publication: McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C. & the International Expert Panel on M...
April 9, 2013

Peer reviewing: Hot of the press

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Recently I have had the interesting task of reviewing grant applications for the Australian Research Council and abstracts for the 29th Wor...
April 6, 2013

The Sound of Speech: Speech Pathology Australia facts sheets

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Speech Pathology Australia has launched two new facts sheets here : The Sound of Speech: 0-3 years The Sound of Speech: P reschool and sc...
April 4, 2013

International Communication Project

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Today I attended the first meeting of Speech Pathology Australia's  Australian Strategic Advisory Group on the International Communicat...
April 3, 2013

Seminar: Supervision of distance, remote, and part-time higher degree research students

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This morning Kate Crowe and I presented a 1.5 hour seminar in the Charles Sturt University Higher Degree by Research Supervisor Series. It w...
April 2, 2013

International finalist for PhD in childhood disability research

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This morning Jane McCormack received a letter from Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto Ca...
March 30, 2013

PhD students in 2013

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I am very fortunate to be working with a group of outstanding PhD scholars this year: Sarah Verdon (co-supervised with Sandie Wong)   ...