June 30, 2026

World Health Organization Disability Health Equity Network Workstream 4

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Tonight (9-10pm) was the 5th meeting of the World Health Organization Disability Health Equity Network Workstream 4. Tonight our internation...
June 29, 2026

Economic Value of Speech Pathology Services focus group

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This morning I was invited to participate in a Speech Pathology Australia focus group with Nous Group to discuss an analytical framework to ...
June 24, 2026

Speech Pathology Australia National Conference

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This week I am co-presenting the following papers at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast https://www.speech...
June 23, 2026

CVC2026 latest data

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CVC2026 - latest data 716 registrations across 44 countries : Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, ...

Children Draw Playing in Mongolia - working meeting

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Today was the next Children Draw Play in Mongolia - working meeting with our Children's Voices Centre affiliates. What a productive way ...
June 22, 2026

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

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What a wonderful day. Today I received my copies of   The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World.  This book has be...
June 19, 2026

Children's Speech - second edition

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Today Elise and I met to continue working on the second edition of Children's Speech - to be published by Oxford University Press.  

Children Draw Playing data analysis and write-up

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This morning I met with one of the many groups who are analysing different parts of our Children Draw Playing data for different purposes us...
June 18, 2026

CVC2026 update

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Overview: Conference to be held 1-3 September 2026 666 registrants across 40+ countries 174 abstracts from 36 countries 114 papers with 2+ r...
June 17, 2026

CVC finance update

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Thanks to Gil Burmeister who is overseeing the finance for CVC. We learned a lot from her today during her visit to The Treehouse.
June 16, 2026

A new kitchen for The Treehouse

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For over two years we have been working towards having a new safe kitchen in The Treehouse for the Children's Voices Centre. We are gett...

CVC and World Health Organization collaboration

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Our CVC team met this morning to update our progress on the CVC and WHO collaborative projects exploring children's perspectives of heal...

Publication impact

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Kate Crowe and wrote two papers summarizing children's speech acquisition. Recently we learned that they are two of the three papers tha...

Orðaheimurinn Team Meeting

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This morning was the first Orðaheimurinn (OH+) Team Meeting (World of Words). Grant title: Optimisation of the World of Words (Orðaheimurinn...
June 15, 2026

Intelligibility in 3- and 5-year-olds born with cleft lip and/or palate: Reference data on Intelligibility in Context Scale scores

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The following paper has just been published. It was commenced during my Benjamin Meaker Visiting Distinguished Professorship at the Universi...
June 12, 2026

Congratulations Holly

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Congratulations to Holly McAlister who has had these papers published for her PhD while I have been on leave: McAlister, H., McLeod, S., ...
June 11, 2026

CeTasSSD catchup

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While I was away the CeTasSSD team finalised the data collection. There are 1207 students in kindergarten across the state and we commenced ...
June 10, 2026

The latest registrations for CVC2026

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The latest registrations for CVC2026 are: 548 registrants across 40 countries. Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Gr...
June 9, 2026

Welcome back to CVC

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Today was my first day back at work (yesterday was a public holiday). My Children's Voices Centre team has been fantastic. They have bee...

CVC children's advisory group present at the WHO Disability Health Equity Network side event at COSP19

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This week the Children's Voices Centre Children's Advisory group are presenting at the United Nations in New York! They have prepare...