August 31, 2016

Kate begins her Fulbright Scholar program in the US

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This week Kate Crowe began her Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar Program working with Professor Marc Marschark at the Rochester Institute of ...
August 29, 2016

About World Languages website

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In a recent Speech Pathology Australia evidence alert the About World Languages website was profiled: http://aboutworldlanguages.com/languag...
August 27, 2016

Free internet on the plane

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I am currently on my long plane trip home from Ireland to Australia. Typically I spend plane trips working on presentations or papers that n...

International Expert Panel meeting in Dublin

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A few members of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech were available during the IALP congress in Dublin to ...

PhD meeting in Ireland

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While in Dublin, I was able to meet with Anniek van Doornik-van der Zee and Professor Ellen Gerrits from the University of Utrecht, The Net...
August 26, 2016

The relationship between spoken English proficiency and participation in higher education, employment, and income from two Australian censuses

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The following paper has been accepted for publication and will be the first paper in Helen Blake’s PhD: Blake, H. L., McLeod, S., Verdon, S....
August 25, 2016

30th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)

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This week over 1000 participants from 53 countries met in Dublin for the 30th World Congress of IALP.  The congress opened with a fantastic ...

Friends at IALP

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Conferences are a great time to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Here are a few people I enjoyed talking with this week at the ...

Board meeting of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics

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Sunday 21st August was my fourth meeting as an elected member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Logopedics and Phon...
August 20, 2016

Speaking Irish in Ireland

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The Irish language is spoken throughout Ireland, particularly in areas near Galway (such as South Connemara and the Aran Islands) where I ha...
August 19, 2016

The stunning contrasts of Ireland

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Aran Island coastline Heather and gorse A Connemara pony on the Clifton Sky Road

Visiting NUI Galway

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NUI Galway This week I have had the pleasure of visiting the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway . During my visit we  discusse...

RIPPLE Effect Winter 2016 edition

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The RIPPLE Effect profiles the work of researchers and PhD students within the Research Institute for Professional Practice Learning and Edu...
August 13, 2016

The beauty of Northern Ireland

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Over the weekend we took time out to enjoy the beauty of Northern Ireland and were fortunate enough to find some sunshine. The Giant...
August 12, 2016

Launch of the Specific Speech Impairment Clinical Excellence Network in Northern Ireland

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Today, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' (RCSLT) Specific Speech Impairment Clinical Excellence Network was launched ...
August 11, 2016

Interesting discussions in Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Over the past few days I have had the pleasure of spending time with Dr Jill Titterington and Natalie Hegarty from the University of Ulster...
August 9, 2016

Usefulness of the Australian Census

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The Australian Census is collected every 5 years - and tonight is census night. Charles Sturt University has published a media release abou...
August 6, 2016

ASHA online conference

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The ASHA online conference that was held in April was repeated in August due to popular demand and this time there were over 600 delegates....
August 5, 2016

Sarah submitted her PhD today

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Today Sarah Masso submitted her PhD titled: Polysyllable Maturity of Preschool Children with Speech Sound Disorders. It was submitted as a s...

ASHA convention statistics

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Recently we have found out that all of our abstracts for the upcoming ASHA convention have been accepted. This is great news as there were 3...