December 17, 2015

Congratulations Charlotte

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Today Charlotte learned that she achieved first class honours. Congratulations Charlotte!

RIPPLE newsletter containing loads of stories about our team

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The latest RIPPLE newsletter contains loads of stories about our team, including an interview with Helen Blake, and awards won by Sarah Mas...

Graduation congratulations continue

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Today my son graduated from CSU and my daughter received her high school results. I am very proud of both of them: their achievements to dat...
December 16, 2015

RIPPLE PhD graduates

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Today the RIPPLE PhD graduates (Dr Tina Stratigos, Dr Sarah Verdon, and Dr Tamara Cumming) were congratulated by the Vice Chancellor (Prof...

Sarah V's PhD graduation

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Today Sarah Verdon graduated with her PhD from Charles Sturt University. She was announced the winner of the Faculty of Education Outstandi...
December 8, 2015

A contrastive analysis of two Fiji English dialects

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Suzanne's next journal article for her PhD has been accepted for publication today: Hopf, S. C. & McLeod, S. ...
December 2, 2015

2015 PhD, postdoc, and honours community of scholars meeting in Sydney

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Almost all of my research students live in different cities from one another (and myself) including Sydney, Newcastle, Albury and Nadi (Fiji...
December 1, 2015

Sound Start Study team meetings with Dr Yvonne Wren

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Over the past 3 weeks, Dr Yvonne Wren has been visiting Australia sponsored by our Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (Sound Start ...
November 28, 2015

Yvonne Wren's visit to Bathurst

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Yvonne Wren has spent almost a week visiting Bathurst as part of our ARC Discovery Grant (Sound Start Study). It has been a pleasure to shar...
November 27, 2015

Sound Start Study visit to NSW Department of Education Rural and Distance Education Unit

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Dr Yvonne Wren from the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and University of Bristol visited the NSW Department of Education ...
November 24, 2015

Congratulations Charlotte on your honours thesis submission

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Today Charlotte Howland submitted her honours thesis to The University of Sydney. Charlotte has been working as our research assistant on th...
November 23, 2015

Sarah's first book chapter

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Today Sarah Masso saw the published version of her first book chapter: Masso, S. & Baker, E. (2015). Speech: Phonology. In S. McLeod ...
November 14, 2015

Presentations at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in Denver, CO

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This year I am not attending the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in Denver, CO and it is the first year for many ye...
November 11, 2015

Shared knowledge and mutual respect: Enhancing culturally competent practice through collaboration with families and communities

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The following article has just been accepted for publication.  It is the final paper to be published from Sarah's PhD. Verdon, S., Won...
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...