July 31, 2022

Submitted chapters for The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

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I am enjoying editing the 30+ (of 77) chapters that have been submitted to The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the Wor...
July 28, 2022

Proud graduation moment

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My daughter graduated with a Masters of Philosphy last night. I am a very proud mother and grateful to her excellent supervisors: A/Prof Jen...

Psychometric properties of Persian version of Intelligibility Context Scale

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 It's exciting to see the reach of our work: Aghaz, A., Kazemi, Y., Hemmati, E., & Zarifian, T. (2022). Psychometric properties of P...
July 26, 2022

Outgrowing speech sound disorders: A review of To, McLeod, Sam and Law (2022)

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Carol Westby published a review of our recent article: Westby, C. (2022). Outgrowing speech sound disorders. Word of Mouth, 34 (1), 5-8. htt...
July 25, 2022

DESE National Reference Group for disability funding in Australian schools

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Over the past two weeks I have continued tasks and meetings in my role on the National Reference Group to consider the disability loading r...
July 22, 2022

Reporting and portraying disability - A useful resource

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A useful resource Reporting and portraying disability in ABC content https://www.abc.net.au/edpols/reporting-and-portraying-disability-in-a...
July 19, 2022

ECV2022 - First official meeting of the conference chairs

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Today was the first official meeting of the conference chairs for ECV2022. I am delighted to be sharing the role with Dr Shukla Sikder.
July 18, 2022

Children's Acknowledgement of Country

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Across Australia most meetings and formal events begin with an Acknowledgement of Country to acknowledge the indigenous custodians of the la...
July 17, 2022

Invitation to present the Autumn Lecture for Advances in Communication and Swallowing

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I have been invited to present the Autumn Lecture for Advances in Communication and Swallowing based on our paper: Waiting list management: ...

A special week with Kate and Marc from Iceland

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What a special week to have Dr Kate Crowe and her colleague Marc Volhardt ( https://english.hi.is/staff/mds ) visiting Bathurst from Iceland...
July 15, 2022

Inspiring PhD students

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This week I have been inspired by my PhD students (something that occurs quite often). I love the early phases of the PhD journey when stude...
July 14, 2022

There and Back Again: A Linguist’s Tale Living and Learning Under the Northern Lights

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We are so excited that Dr Kate Crowe is back in Australia. Kate is an Adjunct at CSU but also works and studies at the University of Iceland...
July 13, 2022

School of Education Research Committee

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Today I attended the SOE Research Committee. It is great to be amongst researchers who are excited about making a difference in the lives of...
July 12, 2022

Meeting with Education Minister Jason Clare MP and Vice Chancellor Professor Renée Leon

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I sincerely appreciated the opportunity to have lunch with Education Minister Jason Clare MP and Charles Sturt Vice Chancellor Professor Ren...
July 11, 2022

Oral presentation at the 14th International Cleft Congress, Edinburgh

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I have been working with a team of researchers from Bristol University and the Speech and Language Therapy Reserach Unit in Bristol. We have...
July 7, 2022

The Informed SLP reviews our latest article

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The Informed SLP has reviewed many of our articles. I enjoy reading their version of our work and their translation of the findings for spee...
July 6, 2022

Page proofs about children's communication rights in ECEC

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I really enjoy working on page proofs. They usually appear a number of years after a project begins. Today we finalised page proofs for this...
July 4, 2022

Disability Loading Review - case studies

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I am on the Expert Panel for the Government's Disability Loading Review run by PwC. Today I joined a zoom session to learn how to rate c...
June 27, 2022

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting

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Today our Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Team Meeting met face-to-face by the first time. We met in Bathurst, Albury and ...
June 22, 2022

2022 is a challenging year for so many people

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Today I attended the School of Education School Board meeting. Here is a sentence from the agenda documents: We have received an enormous nu...