November 21, 2014

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Orlando, FL

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This week I am attending the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Orlando, Florida, USA.  Brian Goldstein and I were...
November 11, 2014

Intelligibility in Context Scale: A parent-report screening tool translated into 60 languages

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The following invited  manuscript has been accepted for publication: McLeod, S. (2014, in press). Intelligibility in Context Scale: A pare...
November 10, 2014

Learning from multilingual Fijians in Fiji

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Over the past week I visited Suzanne Hopf in Fiji to support her PhD data collection and analysis. During the week we  visited a school a...
November 7, 2014

Beautiful Fiji

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Fiji is a beautiful nation filled with very welcoming people. Vinaka (thank you) for the friendly greetings of bula (hello) each day. ...
November 4, 2014

Australia Awards Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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Today Suzanne Hopf learned that she has received an Australia Awards Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship for her research titled: “Supporting...
October 31, 2014

Normative data for the Intelligibility in Context Scale

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Over the past few months Kate Crowe, Ameneh Shahaeian and I have been analysing parent-reported data about 804 Australian preschoolers regar...
October 30, 2014

Success: Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

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Carol To recently informed me of the success of our grant submission: To, C. K-S., Cheung, K. Y., Law, T., Lee, K. Y. S., McLeod, S., &...
October 29, 2014

Collaborative Research Network focus on Indigenous children

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Over the past three days members of the Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network came from Brisbane, Melbourne, and Dubbo to mee...

The contribution of the ICF-CY to working with children with SSD

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The following book chapter has been published: McLeod, S. (2015). The contribution of the ICF-CY to working with children with SSD. In C. ...
October 25, 2014

Useful resources on the web

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Here are some useful resources I have learned about recently:   The languages you speak to your bilingual child . Blog post by François...
October 24, 2014

Our PhD community

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My PhD students live in many different places, but are frequently in contact via email, Skype, and other electronic means of communication. ...
October 7, 2014

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Ad Hoc Committee on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

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Last week I was invited to be one of two international members on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Ad Hoc Committee on the I...

Where to write a book (continued)

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Writing has continued with two books being close to submission to the publishers. Last week I was writing and editing chapters while on leav...
September 29, 2014

International Society for Cultural and Activity Research Conference

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This week Sarah Verdon is presenting two papers from her PhD at the International Society for Cultural and ActivityResearch Conference in Sy...