July 30, 2019

Just published

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The following manuscript has just been published with volume and page numbers (after being published online in February 2017). It forms part...

Publishing advice for researchers from developing and non–English-speaking countries

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I have just discovered this interesting chapter (and book) (via Twitter) that is free to download: Stenius, K., Kerr-Corrêa, F., Obot, I.,...

Providing feedback to students

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A large part of my working week includes providing feedback to research students (honours, PhD, postdocs) - and I really enjoy this aspect o...
July 25, 2019

Medicare Benefits Schedule Review

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Today I spent time providing advice for the definition of "speech sound disorders" for the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule R...
July 24, 2019

New grant: "StoryBabies: Reading with multilingual babies and young children"

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Congratulations Dr Michelle Brown who has been awarded a Forest Hill Grant from the The Foundation of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies ...
July 22, 2019

VietSpeech Study 2 data meeting

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Today Kate Margetson, Van Tran and I had a very productive VietSpeech meeting in Sydney. Kate and Van have begun assessing the speech of ch...
July 20, 2019

Congratulations Dr Ben Phạm on your significant publication about Vietnamese children's speech

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Today Dr Ben Phạm's journal article was published in the Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research. The 26-page article is titled:...
July 19, 2019

Macquarie Infants and Toddlers Conference

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This week is the Third Infants and Toddlers Conference at Macquarie University in Sydney. Anna Cronin (my PhD student) and Dr Michelle Brow...
July 17, 2019

Anna's PhD visit to Bathurst

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Anna Cronin has spent a very productive week visiting me at the CSU Bathurst campus. We have worked on data analysis of the speech of childr...

Charles Sturt University's Foundation Day activities and 30th birthday party

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Today Charles Sturt University celebrated Foundation Day and the 30th birthday of the university. Celebrations included the Charles Sturt Ex...
July 9, 2019

Dr Natalie Hegarty's PhD graduation

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Congratulations Dr Natalie Hegarty on your PhD graduation at Ulster University this week. It was an honour to be on your supervisory team, a...

Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) Conference

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The Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) 2019 Conference was held in Melbourne 9-12 July. Dr Michelle Brown presented the foll...
July 5, 2019

The importance of families

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In 2014 I wrote a blogpost about the importance of our families: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-importance-of-our-fami...
July 2, 2019

The EQUATOR Network and CONSORT statement

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We are currently finishing writing a journal article about a randomised controlled trial. It is really helpful to have the following website...
July 1, 2019

Charles Sturt expert advocates at UN for communication rights

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The Charles Sturt University media office has just released the following story: Charles Sturt expert advocates at UN for communication rig...
June 25, 2019

Presentation at the World Health Organization symposium on ICF-CY

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Today (25th June 2019) Associate Professor Jane McCormack and I had the honour of presenting a paper titled "The application of ICF-CY ...
June 23, 2019

International Conference on Multilingual Acquisition and Multilingual Education

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This week (23-24 June 2019) Dr Van Tran will present the following paper based on her VietSpeech research at the International Conference on...
June 17, 2019

Meeting with Human Rights Officer for International Disability Alliance, NY

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While in New York, I was pleased to meet Lucy Richardson, Human Rights Officer for International Disability Alliance . Lucy was interested i...
June 14, 2019

Australian Government events while in New York

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The Australian Government was extremely welcoming and helpful while we were in New York. They hosted two events that we attended, as well as...

Images from the UN

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It was very special to present at the United Nations in NY. He re are some photos I took while visiting this iconic location.