December 21, 2018

A productive year

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Here is a list of the journal articles that I have published with members of our SLM team and other colleagues during 2018. We also have pub...

Ceremony in Vietnam for Australia Awards scholarship beneficiaries

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This week Dr Ben Phạm was welcomed home by the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, His Excellency Mr Craig Chittick at a ceremony for the Aust...
December 19, 2018

Speech-language pathologists’ support for multilingual speakers’ English intelligibility and participation informed by the ICF

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Congratulations to Helen Blake who just had the following paper accepted for publication from her PhD: Blake, H. L. & McLeod, S. (in pr...
December 13, 2018

Congratulations Dr Phạm on your graduation

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Today Dr Ben Phạm graduated with her PhD from Charles Sturt University. Her dissertation was titled "Children’s acquisition of consonan...
December 12, 2018

My PhD students' theses

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Here are the links to my most recent PhD students' completed theses Helen L. Blake - English proficiency, intelligibility, and partici...
December 11, 2018

Emeritus Prof Lindy McAllister's visit

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Sharynne and Lindy Today I met with Emeritus Prof Lindy McAllister to discuss the projects we have underway. These include teachin...

Congratulations Dr Brown on your graduation

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Today Michelle Brown graduated with her PhD from Griffith University in Queensland. Her thesis was titled "Effectiveness of early story...

NSW Health TRGS Grant update

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Yesterday our NSW Health Translational Research Grant Scheme team met in Bathurst, Dubbo and Shepparton. It has been a very productive year ...
December 10, 2018

70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Today (10th December, 2018) is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Over the past year, we have promoted this ...
December 6, 2018

What kind of public good is language maintenance?

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Yesterday (5th December), Dr Van Tran, Dr Suzanne Hopf and I were able to attend the Michael Clyne lecture given by Professor Jo Lo Bianco a...
November 29, 2018

Early Speech and Language Considerations for Infants and Toddlers with Cleft Palate

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This week my PhD student Anna Cronin was in Auckland, New Zealand giving an invited presentation at the VPI Update Seminar IX , a two day pr...
November 28, 2018

VietSpeech team meeting

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Today our VietSpeech team had a face-to-face meeting in Sydney. VietSpeech is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant and d...
November 22, 2018

Visiting the Australian Catholic University

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with the speech pathology staff at the Australian Catholic University in North Sydney. I presented a...
November 15, 2018

Presentation of the 2017 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Editor's Award

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Today the Sound Start Study team was presented the 2017 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Editor's Award (Speech) at the...

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Boston, MA

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My PhD students, Helen Blake and Nicole McGill, at the ASHA convention in Boston  The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conve...
November 14, 2018

Working from Macquarie University

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Over the next month I have the opportunity to work from Macquarie University in Sydney (part time). It will be wonderful to be close to Prof...

Welcome back to Australia Anniek

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Today I met with Anniek van Doornik who is visiting Australia from The Netherlands. I am currently co-supervising her PhD. She is visiting A...
November 13, 2018

Congratulations Ben

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Yesterday Ben Pham learned that her thesis was approved for graduation. This is a wonderful achievement. Here are the details of her PhD: ht...
November 9, 2018

Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech

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I am an invited editorial board member of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (JMBS) co-edited by Elena Babatsouli and Martin J....
November 7, 2018

Children's Consonant Acquisition presentation

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I have created an 18 minute video presentation titled "Children's Consonant Acquisition". It can be downloaded here: https://...