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

November 29, 2022

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia

I had a wonderful evening in Melbourne celebrating my award of Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia with family and col...

November 24, 2022

Portuguese book chapter has just been published

Our latest book chapter has just been published in the following book that is written in Portuguese (except for our chapter). Freitas, M. J...

November 23, 2022

Learning about Hopi culture

I was priviledged to meet Alberta Selina, a Hopi woman at the Grand Canyon and to learn about her weaving and culture. According to https:...

ASHA through the years - official photos

ASHA has a new compilation of official photos on its website from past conferences. My friends and I appear in a number of them! https://www...

November 20, 2022

ASHA Convention 2023 in New Orleans

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the ASHA Convention in New Orleans. I had not attended since 2019 due to the COVID pandemic - and it was won...

November 18, 2022

ASHA award for contribution to the schools

Congratulations to my long-time colleague Julie Malone, who was awarded the Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution in the Schools at t...

Friends at the ASHA Convention in New Orleans

November 17, 2022

Invited speaker - ASHFoundation inaugural international symposium

I was invited to be a speaker at the inaugural international symposium at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in New Orleans by Dr....

November 15, 2022

ACU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Stewardship - Congratulations

Congratulations to Dr Kerry Ttofari Eecen, A/Prof Jane McCormack and the team from Australian Catholic University who have won the ACU Vice-...

November 14, 2022

Presentations at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in New Orleans

At the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in New Orleans, LA I am presenting two invited sessions and am co-author on a...

November 12, 2022

ECV2022 - Next steps

This week we have over 1500 registrations from 70 countries and 120 drawings (we want more!). We have received the pre-recorded presentatio...

November 11, 2022

Back on campus

Today marks the first day I have arrived to begin my workday on campus since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. The university has encoura...

IJSLP special issue - getting closer

Last night Julie Marshall and I met to keep working on our special issue of the Q1 journal - International Journal of Speech-language Pathol...

November 10, 2022

Speech Pathology Australia early career reference group

Congratulations to Holly McAlister who has been appointed to the Speech Pathology Australia early career reference group. I know that they w...

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

I have been elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia https://socialsciences.org.au/ . Here is my citation: ...

November 9, 2022

International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders Board Meeting

Tonight (9-10:30pm) I attended the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders Board Meeting as the Chair of the Child...

Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology

For the past five years, The Australian Newspaper has annually profiled 250 individual fields of research and announces the Field Leader and...

CSU Research Integrity Unit

Today at the Faculty of Arts and Education Research and Graduate Studies meeting Prof Catherine Allen spoke about the CSU Research Integrity...

November 8, 2022

ECV2022 - Hardworking Faculty of Arts and Education team

Thanks to the Faculty of Arts and Education team members who are working hard behind the scenes on ECV2022: Carolyn Gregoric (ECV2022 confer...

November 2, 2022

2023 Editorial Board Member of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR)- Speech Section

I have been invited to join the 2023 editorial board of Journ al of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) - Speech Section as an E...

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