March 6, 2015

Australian Children's Commissioner comes to Bathurst

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Last night, Megan Mitchell, the National Children's Commissioner spoke in Bathurst. She outlined the importance of the UN Convention on ...

Services for people with communication disability in Fiji: Barriers and drivers of change

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The following journal article has just been accepted for publication and will be included in Suzanne's PhD. Hopf, S. C. & McLeod,...
March 3, 2015

Welcome Helen

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Today was Helen Blake's first day as a PhD student at Charles Sturt University. Within minutes of alighting from her car she had met the...
March 1, 2015

The many endings of a PhD

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Sarah Verdon is almost ready to submit her PhD. She met with her supervisory team last week to finalise the overall exegesis and the last of...

Alignment with the World Health Organization

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The board members of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (of which I am one) have just received the following notifi...
February 27, 2015

Year 1 Fijian children's speech, language and literacy

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Suzanne Hopf (my PhD student) is in the final phase of collecting data with year 1 students in  Fijian school. She has interviewed and worke...
February 25, 2015

Sound Start Study commences the final year of data collection

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2015 is the final year of data collection for the Sound Start Study, funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Most of the t...
February 24, 2015

Child Language Teaching and Therapy editorial board meeting

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This evening between 11:30pm and 12:30am I attended (via teleconference) the Child Language Teaching and Therapy editorial board meeting tha...

Footprints in time: Wave 5 report

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Sarah Verdon and I were invited to write an article for the Australian Government's report on wave 5 data from the Longitudinal Study of...

Speech Pathology Australia national webinar

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Today Sarah Verdon and I presented a 90 minute webinar for Speech Pathology Australia titled: Enhancing practice with children and families ...
February 23, 2015

The 2015 academic year begins

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Today was orientation day and the beginning of the 2015 academic year. This year my PhD students and postdoctoral scholars are: Sarah Mas...
February 13, 2015

Congratulations Sarah Verdon

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Sarah Verdon has just received news that she is a finalist in the NSW/ACT Young Achiever Awards in the Australian National University Scie...
February 9, 2015

Working near Washington DC at the ASHA headquarters

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I am an international representative on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Ad Hoc Committee on the International Classificat...
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...