March 30, 2022

Advances in Communication & Swallowing Editorial Board Meeting

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Tonight was the Advances in Communication & Swallowing Editorial Board Meeting was held tonight (starting 9pm my time).  The editorial ...

CSU Sturt Scheme - Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR)

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Today, our Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Sturt Scheme grant was approved. We received our original approval some months ...
March 28, 2022

Springer book contract - "Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families, Professionals"

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I have just signed a new book contract with Springer to edit "Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families, Professionals" with my c...

Meetings - Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty Board

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The Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty Board met today. I am one of three elected members of the Professoriate. It is an important meetin...
March 24, 2022

Inspiring Orange

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Yesterday I had a series of inspiring meetings in Orange, NSW - my neighbouring city. First I met with Asta Fung and we shared wonton soup a...
March 23, 2022

Invitation to present workshops at the International Bilingualism Symposium

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Our VietSpeech team have been invited to present two workshops to the International Symposium on Bilingualism ( https://www.isb14.com/ ) to...
March 22, 2022

Welcome Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

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Today was our first meeting with Nguyễn Thị Anh Thủ. Dr Ben Phạm and I are Miss Thủ's PhD supervisors. She is studying in the special ed...
March 16, 2022

Macquarie University graduation

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Today I attended the Macquarie University graduation ceremony for education graduates. This week saw the first gradations at Macquarie Unive...
March 12, 2022

Royal Society of NSW garden party at Government House

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Today I was priviledged to attend a garden party at Government House in my role as Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW. The event was to cele...
March 11, 2022

Thanks and bon voyage Grace Kelly

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Over the past year Grace Kelly has worked with Prof Kirrie Ballard and myself on Kirrie's AMP Tomorrow Fund grant to investigate the use...

Peer reviewing for journals

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I try to review as many papers as I can for journals - especially in journals where I submit my own work. While Publons records most of my r...
March 10, 2022

First meetings of The [Oxford] Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

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I have held three meetings across different timezones for chapter authors within The [Oxford] Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of...

Welcoming new staff and mentoring for 2022

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I love my role as a formal and informal mentor across my faculty, university, and the world. Over the past few months I have had the opportu...

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Program

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The Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Program has been launched today and the conference will be face-to-face as well as online...
March 7, 2022

Effect of dialect on identification and severity of speech sound disorder in Fijian children

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The following manuscript has been accepted for publication.  McAlister, H., Hopf, S. C. & McLeod, S. (2022, in press March). Effect of d...

Online launch of the free bilingual book "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ"

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Today, the VietSpeech team hosted an online launch of the free bilingual book titled "VietSpeech: Multilingual Children/Trẻ em Đa ngữ...

Australian board member for the Asia Pacific Society for Speech, Language and Hearing

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I have been invited to be the Australian country liaison for the Asia Pacific Society for Speech, Language and Hearing. The country liaison ...
March 3, 2022

Transcribing Multilingual Children’s and Adults’ Speech

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The following manuscript has been accepted for publication today.  Margetson, K., McLeod, S., Verdon, S. & Tran, V. H. (2022, in press M...

International Women’s Day

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The Vice Chancellor invited me as one of four "Charles Sturt University female leaders" to be profiled on her personal LinkedIn ac...

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Editorial Board

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This morning I attended the annual Editorial Board meeting of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics . These meetings are so informative.