January 24, 2015

Ad Hoc Committee on the ICF

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This morning I participated in a conference call for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the ICF. We...
January 22, 2015

First publication for 2015

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Here is our first publication for 2015: Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wong, S. (2015). Reconceptualizing practice with multilingual child...
December 29, 2014

Phonetic variations and sound changes in Hong Kong Cantonese

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The following paper has been accepted for publication: To, C. K. -S., McLeod, S. & Cheung, P. S. -P. (2014, in press December). Phon...
December 19, 2014

Sound Start Study 2014

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The Sound Start Study has had another extremely productive year. During 2014 the team have seen 585 children, with more than 60 being invol...
December 15, 2014

Research assistants supremely enhance our productivity

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This year I have had the pleasure of working with a team of research assistants on my many different projects. Each brought a unique set of ...
December 13, 2014

Collaboration with the Trinh Foundation to support Vietnamese speech therapy

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Professor Lindy McAllister is a Director of the Trinh Foundation and is working to develop the speech therapy profession in Vietnam. Lindy w...
December 12, 2014

PhD, postdoc, and honours community of scholars meeting in Bathurst

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On 11 and 12 December I hosted a meeting for my PhD, postdoc and honours students at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. Each student pres...
December 11, 2014

Embracing diversity, creating equality: Research seminar presentation

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Sarah Verdon with her PhD supervisors: Sharynne and Sandie Wong Today Sarah Verdon presented a summary of her PhD findings at the School...
December 5, 2014

Deputy convenor of the CSU Professorial Forum

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Today at the Charles Sturt University Professorial Forum I was appointed Deputy Convenor for 2015. The Professorial Forum addresses issues o...

RIPPLE newsletter profiles speech and language research and students

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Charles Sturt University's Research Institute of Professional Practice Learning and Education (RIPPLE) has just published their latest n...
December 4, 2014

Endeavour Scholarship and Fellowship Dinner

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Last night Suzanne Hopf was awarded her Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship at the awards dinner held at the National Gallery in Canberra. Du...
November 25, 2014

ASHA 2015

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ASHA 2014 has just finished, but we have already been planning ASHA 2015. I have been invited to co-chair the Cultural and Linguistic Consi...

Jamaican children's speech and language research continues

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At the ASHA convention, I co-authored two presentations about our research in Jamaica Washington, K. N., McLeod, S., McFarland, A., Weisba...

ASHA: Harry Belafonte, Annie and John Glenn, the Geists, and Harry Potter World

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The ASHA convention is the biggest speech pathology convention in the world. This year over 12,000 people attended. It also involves big nam...

Combining PROPH+ and PHON

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Sarah Masso and I have been collaborating with Yvan Rose and Brian MacWhinney to to create a computerized speech analysis system that is use...

Friends and collaborators at the ASHA convention in Florida

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One of the best parts of attending the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention each year is meeting up with friends and collaborators. W...