October 30, 2015

25th anniversary since Australia signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child

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This week is Children's Week (24 October–1 November 2015)  and this year marks the 25th anniversary since Australia signed the United Na...
October 14, 2015

Congratulations Sarah (again!)

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Today Sarah Masso, my PhD student, learned that she was awarded the Higher Degree Research grant from Speech Pathology Australia (worth $500...
October 12, 2015

Enhancing English intelligibility to support participation of multilingual speakers in Australia.

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Today Helen Blake had her PhD endorsement session. Helen's PhD proposal is titled: Enhancing English intelligibility to support partici...
October 11, 2015

Publication of Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy

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This week I received the first published version of Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy . Oxford University Press had wrapped it i...
October 9, 2015

Six overarching principles of culturally competent practice

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The following manuscript has been accepted for publication ">Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wong, S. (2015, in press October). Suppor...

Parental beliefs and experiences regarding involvement in intervention for their child with speech sound disorder

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The following manuscript has just been accepted for publication based on the thesis of Dr Nicole Watts Pappas, my former PhD student. Wat...
September 26, 2015

Consonants, vowels, and tones across Vietnamese dialects

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Phạm, B. & McLeod, S. (2015, in press September). Consonants, vowels, and tones across Vietnamese dialects. International Journal of Sp...
September 25, 2015

Australian Government Senate Inquiry on students with disability in the school system

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Today Gaenor Dixon (President of Speech Pathology Australia) and I were invited to give evidence to the Australian Government Senate  Stand...
September 18, 2015

Congratulations Jess

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Today my daughter graduated from high school. I am so proud of all she has achieved throughout her high school years and look forward to see...
September 15, 2015

New PhD student

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Today I had my first meeting with Natalie Hegarty and one of her supervisors Jill Titterington (her primary supervisor is Laurence Taggart)....
September 14, 2015

Children's Speech: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Intervention

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Today Elise and I submitted the final version of first 6 chapters of our book, Children's Speech: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessme...
September 10, 2015

Tutorial on assessing multilingual children

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Over the past few days Sarah Verdon and I have been finalising the tutorial co-authored with over 40 members of the International Expert Pan...

Bob Meyenn Public Lecture - Albury 2015

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I was invited to present the 2015 Bob Meyenn Public Lecture in Albury on 9th September. Bob Meyenn was an inspirational and entrepreneurial...
September 4, 2015

Charles Sturt University Public Lecture weblinks

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Children’s speech and language competence Charles Sturt University Public Lecture Professor Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, ...

PhD endorsement - Children's speech acquisition in Northern Viet Nam

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On Wednesday Ben Pham ( Phạm Thị Bền ) presented her PhD proposal titled "Children's acquisition of consonants, semivowels, vowels ...
August 27, 2015

DocFest + 3MT at Charles Sturt University

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This week my PhD students (Ben, Helen, Sarah, and Suzanne) have been attending DocFest at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. DocFest ...

Celebrating Speech Pathology Week in Port Macquarie

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During Speech Pathology Week, I was invited to present a public lecture by Charles Sturt University at the Glasshouse in Port Macquarie tit...
August 23, 2015

Speech Pathology Week

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In 2015, Speech Pathology Week is from 23-29 August. The theme for the week is Talk with me . During Speech Pathology Week 2015, Talk w...
August 16, 2015

Multilingualism and speech-language competence in early childhood: Impact on academic and social-emotional outcomes at school

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The following paper has been accepted today. This is my 100th journal article to be accepted for publication, so is an important milestone f...