March 28, 2025

Rotary eClub of Brindabella

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Last night I spoke to members of the Rotary eClub of Brindabella at the invitation of president, Dr Travis Holland. ( https://rotarye-clubof...
March 27, 2025

Just published

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van Doornik, A., Welbie, M., McLeod, S., Gerrits, E., & Terband, H. (2025). Speech and language therapists’ insights into severity of sp...
March 26, 2025

UN Youth forum at CSU

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This morning I had the privilege of welcoming the UN Youth forum to Bathurst to speak with high school students across the region. I had the...
March 25, 2025

Review of children's perspectives of health and healthcare

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This morning our team met with the CSU librarian Claudio Dionigi to plan our search strategy for our systematic/scoping review for our proje...
March 24, 2025

Preparing for our SACHL shortcourse

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Today Kate Margetson and I met with the DLT team to discuss the development of our SACHL shortcourse. Nik Chalkaranje and Adam Lavelle were ...

Editorial board membership

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It is my pleasure to be on the editorial board of the following journals: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology [Q1] Clinical L...
March 21, 2025

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia - Panel D Fellowship Committee meeting

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Today was my first meeting on the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) - Panel D Fellowship Committee meeting. We considered c...
March 18, 2025

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Patras, Greece

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Today I received the following invitation to accept an invitation to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Patras, Greece....

Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds (2nd edition)

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Today Helen, Kate and I met to keep working on our book "Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds (2nd edition)". We h...

Congratulations Lucia

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It has been a privilege to mentor and support Dr Lucia Wursch in the submission of her grant to the Australian Research Council which was su...
March 17, 2025

CSU/ Nord early childhood collaboration

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This evening we had another meeting regarding the CSU/ Nord EC collaboration. The great news is that the Memorandum of Understanding has bee...
March 13, 2025

Children Draw Playing - data analysis team

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Meeting 2 with enthusiastic colleagues from the Children's Voices Centre - competently led by Dr Carolyn Gregoric  
March 12, 2025

CVC finances

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This week I have been so pleased to meet with Gil Burmeister and Michael Woolnough who are finance officers at CSU. Michael will be able to ...

Book chapter accepted

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 This morning we learned that the following book chapter has been accepted for publication Margetson, K., Tran, V. H., Blake, H. L., Verdon,...
March 11, 2025

Planning our speech pathology screening clinic for Indigenous families

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This morning our research team met at the Orange Community Health Centre to plan our speech screening days in April that will be part of our...

Accepted - Parent-reported speech and language in early childhood is an early indicator of Indigenous Australian children’s literacy and numeracy outcomes

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The following paper has been accepted for publication: McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McMahon, C., Wang, C., & Evans, J. R. (2025, in pres...

OUAT - publication preparation

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Our Once Upon a Time grant data collection is finished - and today we met to continue working on the data analysis, publications and presen...
March 6, 2025

Hooray! Ethics approval

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We were very pleased to receive approval from the CSU Human Research Ethics Committee today for our research with Catholic Education Tasmani...

Accepted journal article - Methods of Diagnosing Speech Sound Disorders in Multilingual Children

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Our manuscript titled "Methods of Diagnosing Speech Sound Disorders in Multilingual Children" has just been accepted for publicati...
March 5, 2025

Editing a new book

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Our editorial team met again today to discuss the publishers' response to our submission. We have a good plan.