Speaking my languages

Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech

September 30, 2019

Wiradjuri pronunciation

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Charles Sturt University has a video to support staff and students to pronounce key Wiradjuri words: https://youtu.be/dtPiWxU5l6o https://...
September 28, 2019

Preparing for the ASHA convention in November

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The next American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention will held in Orlando, FL in November, so my colleagues and I are busily pre...
September 25, 2019

World research leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology

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Today, The Australian published their annual list of Research Field Leaders across 258 areas. I have been named Australia's field leader...
September 20, 2019

Bathurst speech pathologists' dinner

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Last night the Bathurst speech pathologists (+ a friendly psychologist) met together for dinner. This was the first opportunity we had to ge...

Jamaican children's speech and language

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In 2013 I accompanied Dr. Karla Washington to Jamaica to support her first phase of data collection regarding children's speech and lang...
September 17, 2019

CSU Research Fellows

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Dr Tamara Cumming is a CSU Research Fellow and I am a CSU Senior Reserach Fellow. This means we have 2 years quarantined to work on researc...
September 16, 2019

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

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Why should most scholarly communication in our field be in English? I support the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Commun...
September 13, 2019

Impromptu professional development in Balranald

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Today while I was in Balranald (which is over a 7 hour drive from my home) I happened to meet Emelia Bett (the local speech pathologist) and...
September 11, 2019

CSU kangaroos watching the football

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Due to the drought in Bathurst (and lots of Australia) the kangaroos spend a lot of time close to town. There were 30+ kangaroos on the si...

A guide to speaking at the United Nations

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Today I presented a seminar to the School of Teacher Education titled "A guide to speaking at the United Nations" where I listed 1...

Congratulations Helen

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This morning Helen Blake received her examiners' comments on her PhD. They are wonderful and attest to Helen's hard work! Here is m...
September 10, 2019

Presentation to the Research Office about my Senior Research Fellowship

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Today I provided a presentation to 22 people at the Charles Sturt University Research Office about my Senior Research Fellowship. It was an ...
September 6, 2019

World Health Organization Rehabilitation Competency Framework review

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I have been an invited by the World Health Organization to be a reviewer in a Delphi study regarding their Rehabilitation Competency Framewo...

Communication rights special issue of IJSLP

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I just calculated that the Communication rights special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (IJSLP) has been viewed...
September 4, 2019

Applying for promotion

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I am a member of one of the Charles Sturt University Promotions Committees this year and have just attended a briefing about the upcoming pr...

Invited book chapter about the ICF and how to use participation to guide assessment and intervention

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This morning I had a videoconference with Dr Karla Washington from the University of Cincinnati, OH. We have been invited to write a book ch...
September 3, 2019

Multilingual Children's Speech website

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The Multilingual Children's Speech website is still popular. During August 2019 there were 3,450 page views (2,500 unique page views) ...
August 28, 2019

Research conversations at the Faculty Learning and Teaching Symposium

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The CSU Faculty of Arts and Education Learning and Teaching Symposium is being held 27- 29 August 2019 in Albury NSW. During the program, th...

Important members of the research team

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Today I was so pleased to meet Dr Nicola Ivory in person. She has been a fantastic member of our team supporting our statistical analysis fr...
August 27, 2019

Secrets of bilingual parenting success: Insights from VietSpeech

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Dr Van Tran has been interviewed by Prof Ingrid Piller for a Language on the Move article titled "Secrets of bilingual parenting succes...
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