June 30, 2021

Recording a podcast for Speech Pathology Australia

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Today I recorded a podcast for Speech Pathology Australia week . The theme is "Speak Up for Communication Rights" so they intervie...

Ethics approval received to start research with "Say Bananas"

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Last week we received ethics approval from Charles Sturt Universtity to commence our research to share the Say Bananas app with children in ...
June 29, 2021

Preparing for my keynote address to the Philippine Association of Speech Pathologists’ Virtual Convention

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Today I had an informative meeting with the organising committee of the Philippine Association of Speech Pathologists ’ Virtual Convention i...
June 24, 2021

Problems with the Australian Government's categories of disability

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The Australian Government has four categories of disability that are based on the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and the Disabililty S...

Expert Panel Meeting 3: Students with Disability Loading Settings Review

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Today was the third (of 5) Expert Panel Meeting for the Australian Government's Department of Education, Skills and Employment Students ...

Just published: our next VietSpeech journal article

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Wang, C., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Tran, V. H. (2021). Profiles of linguistic multicompetence in Vietnamese-English speakers. American ...
June 23, 2021

ICPLA 2021

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This week is the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference . It was meant to be held in Glasgow in 2020, but w...

Congratulations Van Tran - 3MT People's Choice Award Winner for CSU!

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Congratulations to Dr Van Tran 3MT People's Choice Award Winner for the whole of Charles Sturt University. Her presentation was titled ...
June 22, 2021

VietSpeech transcription, data entry and analysis meeting

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Tonight our VietSpeech research assistants met to discuss our transcription, data entry and analysis for Study 4. Transcription of data in t...
June 21, 2021

Anniek's PhD is going well

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Tonight we discussed the next draft of one of Anniek Van Doornik's PhD papers. I really enjoy collaborating with her supervisory team in...

Waiting for Speech Pathology website

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The Waiting for Speech Pathology website has new pages:  Stuttering  Voice  Paediatric Feeding  The original pages addressed:  Children'...

Van's penultimate draft of her second PhD

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This week we will read the penutimate draft of Dr Van Tran's second PhD. She has been undertaking her PhD with us as part of our VietSpe...
June 17, 2021

Discussing qualitative vs quantiative research

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Marie Ireland has begun her PhD journey at Charles Sturt University. She is working on a PhD by prior publication supervised by Dr Sarah Ver...
June 16, 2021

Congratulations Dr Nicole McGill on your PhD graduation and Holly McAlister on your first class honours

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Today, Nicole McGill graduated with her PhD at the Charles Sturt University graduation ceremony in Wagga Wagga. Dr Kate Crowe, Dr Suzanne Ho...
June 15, 2021

Another useful supervision meeting with our Masters' students in Vietnam

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Podcast interview

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Today I was interviewed for the Up & Coming Speechies podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/up-coming-speechies/id1528880071 It...
June 14, 2021

WHO Caregiver Skills Training Programme review

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I have just completed my review of the World Health Organization Caregiver Skills Training Programme for Families of Children with Developme...
June 10, 2021

Snow!

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 Today was a lovely snow day. This is rare in my part of Australia. Snow on the gum trees

Annual Editorial Board meeting for Child Language Teaching and Therapy

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Tonight (starting at 11pm ~ early afternoon in London) I attended the annual Editorial Board meeting for the journal Child Language Teaching...
June 8, 2021

Good Practice Schools Framework

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I am an invited member of the Students With Disability Loading Review Expert Panel coordinated by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the Au...