September 1, 2026

Kangaroo walk on Country to start CVC2026

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 CVC affiliates gathered at the Kangaroo Walk behind CSU to spend an hour acknowledging the traditional custodians and Wiradjuri land as the...
August 31, 2026

CVC2026 affiliates welcome

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 CVC2026 starts tomorrow. Many of our CVC affiliates travelled to Bathurst to participate in the conference face-to-face (one travelled over...

CVC BOOK CELEBRATION

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To begin the Children's Voices Conference 2026 (CVC2026) live events, CVC hosted a Children's Voices Centre Book Celebration to cele...

CVC2026 Children's Advisory Group instructions

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 Our Children's Advisory Group is so creative!   Theme: Creating a more inclusive world for children Your mission, if you choose to acce...
August 30, 2026

Welcome back Audrey

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 I am so excited to welcome back Dr Audrey (Cen) Wang to work with me for 2 days/week as a statistician on our Catholic Education Tasmania r...
August 27, 2026

Mentoring conversations

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 I enjoy my mentoring conversations. Today Prof Jillian Marsh and I discussed many interesting issues.

It’s not just speech: Association between intelligibility, language and communication skills in children born with cleft palate +/- lip

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 The following paper was accepted for publication today. The paper was based on collaborative work undertaken during my Benjamin Meaker  Dis...
August 26, 2026

CET consultation about children who speak languages other than English at home

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This afternoon, as part of our research grant with Catholic Education Tasmania, I spent 3.5 hours having 15 minute appointments with Tasmani...
August 25, 2026

CET statistics

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Our data for the Catholic Education Tasmania Speech Sound Disorder (CeTasSSD) grant is coming in thick and fast - so now we are gearing up f...
August 24, 2026

CVC newsletter

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CVC directors, Tamara, Kathy and I have been working hard on the next CVC newsletter so that it is ready for sharing at our CVC2026 conferen...
August 23, 2026

CVC2026 presentations

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The Children's Voices Conference (CVC2026) is a great place to be able to share the collaborative research we have been undertaking. Her...
August 21, 2026

CVC2026 - lots of hard work as just over 1 week to go

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 Everything is coming together for CVC2026. Today Emma Hayes and I almost finished the CVC2026 conference proceedings and preparation of the...
August 20, 2026

CSU's Higher Degree Research (HDR) students

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 Today I learned these interesting statistics from DVC-R about CSU's HDR (PhD, MPhil) students: 63% distance students 49% part time stud...

CVC2026 - latest numbers

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We have 1212 registrations from 63 countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, ...
August 19, 2026

CVC2026 keynotes

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CVC2026 keynotes - what a lineup! Dr Chemba Raghavan, Global Lead, Early Childhood Development, UNICEF Global Center of Excellence, Kenya | ...

Our CVC kitchen in The Treehouse is FINISHED

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 Hooray! Our Children's Voices Centre kitchen in The Treehouse is FINISHED. It has taken years of work. Thank you to the philanthropist ...

Information about Australian Research Council's revised grant program

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Thank you to Prof Jason White for his update about the Australian Research Council's revised grant program  
August 17, 2026

CVC affilates and adjuncts contribute papers to CLTT special issue

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Listening to Children with Diverse Communication Abilities Child Language Teaching and Therapy Special Issue (2026, volume 42) - Q1 journal...
August 14, 2026

A new kitchen for The Treehouse - nearly finished

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Our new kitchen is nearly finished. Thank you Emma Hayes for your oversight of this important project in the life of CVC.

CVC2026 - next milestone almost ticked off

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Over the past 2 weeks we have been reviewing all submitted CVC2026 presentations, particularly checking them for ethical approvals and image...