August 2, 2024

Indigenous Australian children’s speech and language in early childhood: Parent report as a predictor of school-age academic outcomes

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Prof Linda Harrison and I have been working on revisions for our co-authored paper titled "Indigenous Australian children’s speech and ...
August 1, 2024

SUBMITTED - Two papers for the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD)

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Today I submitted two 9 page papers for the International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD). Our abstracts were accepted for pres...

New door sign

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A nice surprise!
July 31, 2024

SUBMITTED - The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World

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Today I submitted The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. HOORAY! Thanks to the 172 chapter authors - my  CSU s...

Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions in International Achievement

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I have been informed that I was nominated and will receive the Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions in International Ach...
July 30, 2024

Covidence review of services and resources to support Indigenous children's communication

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Today Dr Carolyn Gregoric, Sarah Bartlett and I met to advance our Covidence review of services and resources to support Indigenous children...

ECV2024 - Abstract submission closed

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Abstract submission has closed for the ECV2024 conference. We have had 74 abstracts submitted from 23 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Bulg...
July 29, 2024

Congratulations Kate Margetson on finalising your PhD for graduation

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Today the Charles Sturt University Graduate Research Office acknowledged that Kate Margetson's PhD has been finalised and she is ready f...
July 27, 2024

Focus on English and Western-centric literature in child language/development/speech research

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The famous wake-up call to resesearchers and practitioners highlighted that our knowledge is biased:  Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Noren...

Orange Aboriginal Medical Service Continuous Quality Improvement Day

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Our research team was invited to attend, participate in, and present at the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (OAMS) Continuous Quality Impr...

Congratulations Julie Malone - Board Member at Large in Speech-Language Pathology

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Congratulations to my colleague Julie Malone who has been elected to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association  as: Board Member at L...
July 26, 2024

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Board of Directors

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Congratulations to my long-time colleague Julie D. Malone, CCC-SLP who has just been announced as Board Member at Large in Speech-Language P...
July 25, 2024

Child Language Teaching and Therapy editorial board meeting

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Tonight I attended the annual Child Language Teaching and Therapy (CLTT) editorial board meeting.  One interesting topic that was covered in...

Research higher degree students are great

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It's time I had another blog about my research higher degree students. I love working with them. This week:  Suzanne Hopf and I met with...

RHRI team preparation for our presentation

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Today our RHRI team have met online to finalise our first presentation to the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (OAMS) tomorrow. We are coll...

Children on campus - Scoping review + preparing for ethics

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Today we had two meetings to advance our work about children on campus. This morning, our review team (Carolyn Gregoric, Suzanne Hopf, Claud...

ECV2024 Scientific Review Committee

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The abstracts for the ECV2024 Conference are due on 29th July - so today we had the ECV2024 Scientific Review Committee meeting and learned ...
July 24, 2024

Mentoring - Congratulations Belinda on achieving most of your mentoring goals by July!

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Congratulations A/Prof Belinda Cash on submitting a grant yesterday, finalising 5 projects, having 3 papers accepted in 2024, 3 under review...
July 23, 2024

Preparing our new research with Tasmania

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Today Dr Nicola Ivory and I spent time working on our invited research proposal with an education department in Tasmania. It is such an exci...

Our VietSpeech team is writing a lot of chapters

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The work of our VietSpeech team ( https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/overview ) continues to have impact across the world. We have b...