January 31, 2017

Communication disability in Fiji: Community cultural beliefs and attitudes

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The following manuscript has just been accepted for publication: Hopf, S. C., McLeod, S., McDonagh, S., & Rakanace, E. (2017, in press)...
January 30, 2017

Speech sound disorders in preschool children: Correspondence between clinical diagnosis and teacher and parent report

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The following manuscript has been accepted for publication Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S., McAllister, L. & McCormack, J. (2017, in press)...
January 23, 2017

Profile of Australian preschool children with speech sound disorders at risk for literacy difficulties

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The following manuscript from the Sound Start Study has been accepted for publication. McLeod, S., Crowe, K., Masso, S., Baker, E., McCorm...
January 22, 2017

Intelligibility in Context Scale research

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Over the past few years validation and norming research has been undertaken for the Intelligibility in Context Scale. Here is some of the pu...
January 21, 2017

Busy January

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It is summertime in Australia, so my students and I have been on holidays. Even though we have only been back on deck for a short while we h...
January 9, 2017

Suzanne Churcher's Churchill Trust Report has been published

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In August 2016, Suzanne Churcher visited my colleagues and I at Charles Sturt University as part of her Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fel...
January 5, 2017

First publication for 2017

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Congratulations to Suzanne Hopf on our first publication of the year: Hopf, S. C., McLeod, S., & McDonagh, S. H. (2017). Fiji school ch...
December 29, 2016

Ben's data collection in Viet Nam

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Congratulations to Ben Pham who has assessed 96 children (including 8 children under 3;0) using the Vietnamese Speech Assessment in Hai Phon...
December 21, 2016

Charles Sturt University 2016

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Here is a snapshot of some of the achievements of my university for 2016 that have not been mentioned on my blog: https://charlessturt.file...
December 20, 2016

Indigenous Australian children’s speech and language: Academic outcomes and access to services

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The following research project, commissioned by Speech Pathology Australia has been approved to commence in 2017: McLeod, S., Harrison, L. ...
December 16, 2016

Sarah Masso's PhD graduation

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Today Sarah Masso graduated with her PhD. Her PhD supervisors and family all traveled to Bathurst to celebrate with her. Her PhD was titled:...
December 15, 2016

Writing grants and journal articles

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Even though Christmas is next week, we are in full swing writing grants and journal articles. For example, Sarah Verdon has been visiting Ba...
December 14, 2016

RIPPLE farewells

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The Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education will close at the end of 2016. We have had cross-campus farewells t...
December 12, 2016

Students' awards

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Today I was invited to the CSU Faculty of Arts and Education Research and Graduate Studies Management Committee to discuss the awards succes...
December 9, 2016

Indigenous research summit

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Over the past 2 days I have been on Wiradjuri land in Dubbo at the Charles Sturt University Indigenous Research Summit. It has been a rich e...

Our children and families

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The work undertaken by our team focuses on the communication skills of children and families throughout the world. Every so often on m...
December 7, 2016

Ben's data collection in Hai Phong, Viet Nam

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Ben Pham leaves Australia today to travel back to Viet Nam to undertake stage 2 of her data collection for her PhD. She is researching child...
December 6, 2016

Changes in polysyllable speech accuracy of children with speech sound disorders

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Sarah Masso is presenting the following poster this week: Masso, S., McLeod, S., Baker, E., McCormack, J., & Wang, C. (2016, December)....
December 5, 2016

Annual PhD and postdoc scholars meeting

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Today all of my CSU students traveled to Sydney to meet for our annual face-to-face meeting. We traveled from Fiji, Newcastle, Brisbane, She...
December 3, 2016

Kate Crowe's Fulbright adventures

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Kate Crowe has been updating her blog: http://katesfubrightlife.blogspot.com.au/ with all of her Fulbright adventures. It is a good read!