October 17, 2025

Scoping review: Perspectives of children with disabilities about healthcare

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Today we met to discuss the scoping review we are undertaking to consider the perspectives of children with disabilities about healthcare 57...

Visitors to The Treehouse

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Lots of people like to pop in and visit The Treehouse. Today I hosted two visitors who used to work at the CSU Library. They were visiting P...
October 16, 2025

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and World Children's Day

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Today A/Prof Tamara Cumming, Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met with Lilium Burrow and team from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Here are the p...
October 15, 2025

National Children’s Week (18-26 October)

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The ABC has selected the work of A/Prof Kathy Cologon to profile for National Children’s Week (18-26 October). Congratulations Kathy! Nation...
October 14, 2025

CVC team meeting

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What an amazing team we have at CVC. Each Tuesday team meeting is a celebration of achievements, joint planning and problem solving, and sup...
October 13, 2025

Preparing for presenting the Children Draw Health research at the World Health Organization meeting next week

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 Dr Carolyn Gregoric, Dr Belinda Downey and I have been doing a lot of work to prepare for presenting the Children Draw Health research at t...
October 10, 2025

Invited presentation to the Canadian Speech and Stuttering Institute

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 This morning Dr Kate Margetson, Dr Helen L. Blake and I were invited to present a 3-hour live session to the Canadian Speech and Stuttering...

Monthly meeting with World Health Organization

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We had another wonderful meeting with Dr Mélanie Gréaux from the World Health Organization to update everyone on the huge amount of work tha...
October 9, 2025

Preparing the booklet to present to the World Health Organization later this month

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Thank you to Abbey from the CSU Brand team who has been working with Carolyn Gregoric and Belinda Downey to create the booklet we will prese...

Bright Ideas Media - Live and online presentations

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We were invited to present a Speech Sound Disorders Series for Bright Ideas Media in the US.    https://www.bethebrightest.com/en/events/spe...
October 8, 2025

Finance advice

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Lorraine Bennett and I appreciate advice from the CSU Finance team: Michael Woolnough and Gil Burmeister.   

CSU representatives on the World Health Organization Disability Health Equity Network

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Charles Sturt University has been accepted as an inaugural Member of the World Health Organization Disability Health Equity Network (2025-20...

CVC launch in the Western Advocate

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Western Advocate article – “'Unique to the world:' Bathurst's newest facility making waves at UN, WHO” “The world-leading resear...

CSU - Cultural And Linguistic Diversity Champions And Be An Ally For Cultural Inclusion

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 From What's New and News today Subject: Meet The New Cultural And Linguistic Diversity Champions And Be An Ally For Cultural Inclusion ...

Success stories

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Today Nilima Mathai (Business Operations and Engagement Manager, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)) let me know that our work ...
October 7, 2025

CVC: Widening children's participation in research scoping review project

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Today Dr Carolyn Gregoric led a meeting with our CVC affiliates titled "Widening children's participation in research scoping revie...

Just published - Children’s drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech

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How exciting - this paper has just been published. McCormack, J., Cronin, A., McLeod, S., Ireland, M., Wang, C., & Tiong, C. (2025). Chi...

Data analysis about speech-language pathologists in US schools

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 This morning I met with Marie Ireland and LaVae to discuss the data analysis for our nine tensions paper. 1011 responses submitted, 885 res...
October 3, 2025

BIG TASK - Copyediting the Oxford Handbook

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All of the copyedited chapter files (80 chapters) and figure files arrived this week! There is a lot of work to be done to finalise these in...

Book pitch - Vaccination is under threat: Communication is the solution

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 I am mentoring Dr Ros Cox in the writing and publication of her book "Vaccination is under threat: Communication is the solution"...