September 30, 2016

Anniek's PhD research begins

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 I am co-supervising Anniek van Doornik's PhD research. Her SPEECH study aims to describe the severity of speech sound disorders in 4- t...

Best practice versus possible practice with multilingual children: Liverpool Health Service

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Today Sarah Verdon and I were invited to present a workshop to the 30+ speech pathologists at the Liverpool Health Service in Sydney. The wo...

Trinh Foundation's Facebook post about Children's Speech

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The Trinh Foundation (http://trinhfoundation.org/) have just posted the following Facebook message about Children's Speech https://ww...
September 28, 2016

Crowdfunding research

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Today I attended a presentation at Charles Sturt University titled "Crowdfunding research: Because it takes a village to fund the answe...
September 27, 2016

Presentations from ASHA's research symposium on about Primary Language Impairment in Children with Nonmainstream Language Backgrounds

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I have just learned of these free videos from ASHA's YouTube channel that are from the 24th Research Symposium on Primary Language Impai...
September 26, 2016

Day-to-day hard work with excellent colleagues

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Grear McAdam, Ben Phạm and Linda Harrison in my office Many of my blog posts are about things that happen outside of ...

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conventions

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Today Ben Pham (my PhD student) and I have been invited to serve on the Cultural and Linguistic Diversity topic committee for the 2017 Ameri...
September 25, 2016

A happy day

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This weekend my colleague Audrey Wang, was married. It was a happy day of celebrating with friends from CSU.
September 22, 2016

Anna's Churchill Fellowship report is published

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Anna Cronin has finished her Churchill Fellowship and her report has just been published online here . The aim of her research was: "To...
September 21, 2016

Discussion about future aspriations for the ICS

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Skype conversation about the ICS Last night Anniek van Doornik- van der Zee and Dr Hayo Terband from The Netherlands, Dr Annette Fox...
September 20, 2016

German publication about the IEPMCS position paper

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The following journal article has just been published Neumann, S., Meinusch, M., Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. (2016) Mehrsprachige Kinder ...

Learning from Aboriginal people at Charles Sturt University

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Over the past week I have had some fantastic opportunities to learn from Aboriginal people. I live and work on Wiradjuri land, and Charles S...
September 18, 2016

The importance of our families (continued)

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My students and I have an agreement that "family comes first". Our families are important for so many reasons, including as our su...
September 16, 2016

Kate Crowe's Fulbright Blog

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Kate Crowe has created her own blog to document her Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship adventures: http://katesfubrightlife.blogspot.com He...

Pronouncing people's names correctly

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Your name is so important to your identity. Recently an ASHA online forum discussed the an article titled: " The Lasting Impact of Misp...
September 15, 2016

Congratulations Helen: Short-listed for Menzies Scholarship

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Congratulations to Helen Blake who was short-listed for the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Research Scholarship in the Allied Health Sciences ....
September 14, 2016

Re-election to CSU's Academic Senate

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I have been reappointed onto Charles Sturt University's Academic Senate for a 2-year term as an elected member representing the professo...
September 12, 2016

Visiting the Cleft Palate Clinic at the Children's Hospital at Westmead

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Anna Cronin has just finished working as a speech pathologist in the cleft palate team at the Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney...
September 11, 2016

Beautiful New Zealand

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On the weekend after the New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Association conference, Lindy McAllister and I had the opportunity to e...
September 9, 2016

New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Association National Conference

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I have been in Auckland this week as an invited keynote speaker at the New Zealand Speech-language Therapists' Association National Conf...