March 30, 2026

Thank you Tasmania

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I have had a lovely time in Tasmania meeting a LOT of 4 year olds, teaching assistants (TAs), school support coordinators (SSC), teachers, p...

Week 3 of the Tasmanian Kinder Speech Census begins

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 At the beginning of week 3 of our Tasmanian Kinder Speech Census we have: 32 schools 1,203 Kinder students 889 parent consent forms returne...
March 28, 2026

Enjoying research with rural Tasmanian children during week 2 of the CET speech census

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On Thursday and Friday this week I have traveled to rural locations to undertake research with 4- and 5-year-old children in Catholic Educat...
March 25, 2026

Catholic Education Tasmania workshop: Speech Difficulties in EALD Leamers: The role of speech pathology

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Today I presented a workshop run by Catholic Education Tasmania titled "Speech Difficulties in EALD Leamers: The role of speech patholo...

WHO Workstream 4 meeting

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This morning - before presenting workshops at Catholic Education Tasmania - I attended (online) the Workstream 4 meeting for the World Healt...

Meeting with Catholic Education Tasmania's executive leadership team

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Yesterday afternoon I had the honour of visiting Catholic Education Tasmania's head office to share the updates from our collaborative r...
March 23, 2026

Assessing children's speech in Tasmania

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I am in Tasmania this week to assess children's speech across the state as part of our research grant with Catholic Education Tasmania. ...
March 20, 2026

Meeting with Department of Education today

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Today I was with a co-hort of universities across NSW  meeting with Claire Britt and others from the NSW Department of Education. We were di...
March 18, 2026

Vice Chancellor visits The Treehouse

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Today the Vice Chancellor visited the Children’s Voices Centre for an hour. What an honour to show her The Treehouse and to discuss our CVC ...
March 17, 2026

Children's Voices Conference (CVC2026) team meeting

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It is so wonderful to have Emma Hayes working with us as a member of our Children's Voices Conference (CVC2026) team. Today we had our f...

Bathurst speech pathologists' dinner

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 It is always such fun to meet with my local Bathurst speech pathologists. Last night we met for dinner at a local restaurant.   It was love...
March 16, 2026

CeTasSSD data collection has begun

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The day has finally come that we have begun the research with 1,200 Kinder children in Tasmania. We are using the Australian English version...
March 13, 2026

Children Draw Talking and Playing

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Today Cyrena Hunt-Madden and I began the analysis of data to consider what children say about their talking while they are playing. This chi...
March 12, 2026

Welcome to CVC Emma Hayes

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Today Emma Hayes began working with the Children's Voices Centre as the administrator for the Children's Voices Conference (CVC2026)...