Speaking my languages

Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

March 17, 2016

Happy St Patrick's Day

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I love what I learn working amongst colleagues from different countries. Today is St Patrick's Day and one of my colleagues from Norther...
March 16, 2016

Polysyllable productions in preschool children with speech sound disorders

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The following article has been accepted for publication. It is a part of Sarah Masso's PhD: Masso, S., McLeod, S., Baker, E., & M...

Mehrsprachige Kinder mit Aussprachestörung: Internationales Positionspapier [Multilingual children with speech sound disorder: International position paper]

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The following article has been accepted for publication and is a result of collaboration with Dr. Sandra Neumann from the Universit...

Lecturing CSU's dentistry students

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Today I provided a 2-hour lecture to the CSU dentistry students. I discussed the role of a speech pathologist, guidelines for typical speech...
March 12, 2016

Sarah's SPSS PhD visit

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This week Sarah Masso was in Bathurst to work with Audrey Wang and myself on her next PhD paper. Sarah currently is exploring change in pres...
March 7, 2016

Planning for 2030

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Speech Pathology Australia is hosting a series of events titled Speech Pathology 2030 - Making futures happen . The purpose is "to enga...
March 5, 2016

Anna's Churchill Fellowship begins

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Anna Cronin, my newest PhD student, will embark on her Churchill Fellowship in less than two weeks. She will be visiting sites in New Zealan...
March 2, 2016

Welcome Franklin!

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Today I had the honour of meeting the newest member of our research community: Franklin. He was born last week and the whole family are doin...
February 26, 2016

Australian-American Fulbright Commission Scholar Showcase and Presentation Dinner

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Last night the Australian-American Fulbright Commission Scholar Showcase and Presentation Dinner was held in Melbourne. Dr Kate Crowe was p...
February 22, 2016

Charles Sturt University Commencement Ceremony 2016

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The Charles Sturt University Commencement Ceremony was held on Monday 22nd February to begin the academic year for 2016. This photo is of Be...
February 21, 2016

Cyclone Winston's impact on Fiji

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One of my PhD students, Suzanne Hopf, lives in Fiji (and undertakes her studies via distance education). It was devastating to learn of the ...
February 20, 2016

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale for South Africa

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The following article has just been accepted for publication. Pascoe, M. & McLeod, S. (2016, in press February). Cross-cultural adapt...
February 19, 2016

Celebrating Lunar New Year

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This Year of the Monkey, we held a picnic to celebrate Lunar New Year, sharing stories about the celebration from China and Vietnam. Audr...
February 11, 2016

Bathurst speech pathologists' dinner

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In 2003 when I moved in Bathurst there were very few speech pathologists and most worked with adults rather than children. Now there are man...
February 10, 2016

Second Most Prevalent Disability Category in the US

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An email was sent to ASHA members from Dr. Lemmietta G. McNeilly, Chief Staff Officer, Speech-Language Pathology containing the following in...

Application of the ICF to communication

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Last year I was invited to be a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ad hoc committee on the application of the Inter...

Magdalena Janus' visit to CSU

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This week Magdalena Janus has been visiting CSU sponsored by RIPPLE. She has been involved in the development of the Early Development Inde...
February 8, 2016

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship awarded to Kate Crowe

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Kate Crowe has been awarded a prestigious  Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study in the US with Professor Marc Marschark at Rochest...
February 5, 2016

Speech Pathology Australia 2015 highlights

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It was great to see the work of members of our team listed in the 2015 Speech Pathology Australia highlights on pages 8 and 11 of February...
January 28, 2016

Children's Speech: Advertised on Pearson's website

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Elise Baker and I are currently in the final phases of copyediting and page proofing our new book. It has just been advertised on Pearson...
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