2022 publications using the Intelligibility in Context Scale

Norming and/or validation of the ICS 

INDONESIA – Natalia, C., Pratomo, H. T. A., & Sarwanto, A. (2022). Speech intelligibility In preschoolers using Indonesian Intelligibility In Context Scale. Jurnal Keterapian Fisik, 7(2), 95–104. https://doi.org/10.37341/jkf.v0i0.373 

 IRAN (PERSIAN/FARSI)– Aghaz, A., Kazemi, Y., Hemmati, E., & Zarifian, T. (2022). Psychometric properties of Persian version of Intelligibility Context Scale in Persian-speaking children. The Scientific Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 10(6), 1270-1283. https://doi.org/10.32598/sjrm.10.6.22 

TURKEY – Şanlı, N., & Evci, M. (2022). Bağlam içi anlaşılırlık ölçeğini: iç tutarlılık ve geçerlilik [Intelligibility in Context Scale: Internal consistency and validity]. Dil, Konuşma ve Yutma Araştırmaları Dergisi, 5(1), 1-22. 

VIETNAM – Le, X. T. T., McLeod, S., & Phạm, B. (2022). Consonant accuracy and intelligibility of Southern Vietnamese children. Speech, Language and Hearing, 25(3), 315-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2021.1888195 

ICS with children with speech sound disorders 

HONG KONG (SAR CHINA) – To, C. K. S., McLeod, S., Sam, K. L & Law, T. (2022). To, C. K. S., McLeod, S., Sam, K. L., & Law, T. (2022). Predicting which children will normalize without intervention for speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(5), 1724-1741. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00444

ICS with children with childhood apraxia of speech 

ITALY – Bombonato, C., Casalini, C., Pecini, C., Angelucci, G., Vicari, S., Podda, I., Cipriani, P., Chilosi, A. M., & Menghini, D. (2022). Implicit learning in children with childhood apraxia of speech. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 122, 104170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104170 

ICS with children with VPI 

Hashemi Hosseinabad, H., Washington, K. N., Boyce, S. E., Silbert, N., & Kummer, A. (2022). Agreements of intelligibility in children with velopharyngeal insufficiency: The relationship between Intelligibility in Context Scale and experimental measures. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 74, 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1159/000516537

Kate Margetson's PhD endorsement

Today, School of Education PhD student Kate Margetson presented her PhD research proposal at an Endorsement of Candidature session. 

Kate’s thesis title is: Supporting English-Speaking Professionals to Work with Bilingual Vietnamese-English-Speaking Children. Her study is supervised by Professor Sharynne McLeod and Associate Professor Sarah Verdon 

Proposal Abstract: Culturally responsive practice that values multilingualism is needed for education and health professionals to provide equitable service to multilingual children and their families. Extensive studies have identified that professionals lack knowledge and skills for assessing multilingual children’s speech, especially when they do not speak the same languages. While assessing children in all the languages that they speak is recommended, often professionals rely on English assessments. There are no guidelines for how professionals can transcribe multilingual children’s speech, which likely contributes to speech sound disorders being under- or over-diagnosed in multilingual children. The proposed research aims to investigate how English-speaking professionals can assess and diagnose speech sound disorders in bilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children, using a mixed methods research design. A research protocol for multilingual speech transcription will be designed and tested with Vietnamese-English-speaking children and adults. Speech profiles of bilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children will be used to explore the interaction between Vietnamese and English, the impact of ambient phonology on acquisition, characteristics of typical acquisition versus speech sound disorder, and the subsequent importance of assessing both Vietnamese and English. An implementation science approach will be adopted to develop and test an online tool for professionals to learn how to assess and transcribe children’s speech in Vietnamese. This body of work seeks to bridge the gap between research and practice by equipping professionals with practical guidelines and transcription skills so that they can provide a culturally responsive, equitable service when assessing multilingual children’s speech.

Congratulations Kate!

Making information about children's speech development available to the world

Dr Helen Blake from UTS and I have been working steadily on a project to make information about children's speech development available to the world. I have enjoyed our planning phase during 2022 and look forward to our implementation phase in 2023.

ECV2022 Day 5

What an amazing conference we have held this week. Some of the world still haven't woken to Friday 9th December, so these are not quite the final figures - but they give us good insight into the reach of the conference.

1,952 registrations from 72 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom (includes England, Regno Unito, Northern Ireland, Scotland), United States of America, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe 

*Yarning circle summary (attendees/registrations) 

• YC1 Families  - 13/65 
• YC2 Communication  - 23/67 
• YC3 Professional  - 13/50 
• YC4 Children  - 15/50 
• YC5 Children's rights and Sustainable Development Goals  - 12/47 

*Google Analytics - 5,679 views from 1,233 users. The top 10 countries were: Australia, UK, Ghana, US, Bangladesh, Ireland, Canada, Indonesia, Iceland, and Netherlands. People went to ECV2022 directly (1,219 users), via social media (424 users), by searching (168 users) and other means.

*Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery - 191 drawings

This morning at 8am I supported Dr Jessamy Davies to host the Yarning Circle focussed on Children's rights and Sustainable Development Goals. Some of the comments that the participants wrote in the chat:

• “This conference has been fantastic for hearing lots of different perspectives from people from different professional backgrounds and disciplines. I've been learning a lot, thank you!”
• “It's definitely a prompt to re-read [the Convention on the Rights of the Child] as it's been quite a while since I have read them, and I don't think we listen enough to children, families and educators!”
• “Thank you very much for organising the conference. It was a great experience. It it valuable to have access to the resources after the last day of the conference.” 

Dr Jessamy Davies and Sharynne after Yarning Circle 5

At the end of the day, Dr Carolyn Gregoric and I met to celebrate how wonderful ECV2022 was this week - and how nothing seemed to go wrong :)

Dr Carolyn Gregoric and Sharynne at the end of ECV2022

Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative

I have just applied for membership for the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative https://multiculturalhealth.org.au/

The Collaborative intends to work at the national level to give a voice to the broad health and wellbeing needs, including research, of Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

ECV2022 - Day 4

At 9:30am on Day 4 (Thurs 8th December) 

Eventbrite

• 1946 registations
• Participants from 70 countries Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Google analytics report

• 4,807 views from 1,102 users
• Top hits: Children Draw Talking Gallery 1 (218), Keynote 1 (210), Keynote 6 (110), Keynote 5 (105), Keynote 2 (98), Keynote 3 (97), Keynote 4 (88), Yarning circles (79), Children Draw Talking Gallery 3 (77), Children Draw Talking Gallery 4, Paper 224 (45), Paper 201 (44), Paper 202 (44), Paper 243 (43)

IJSLP board meeting

Tonight I enjoyed participating in the 2022 International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editorial Board meeting. Congratulations to the editors Libby Cardell and Natalie Munro on the excellent quality of papers and the trajectory of the journal.

2021 statistics: IJSLP had 319,000 downloads/views. The journal’s 2021 Impact Factor is 1.820 and 5 Year Impact Factor is 2.358. IJSLP is rated Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile and the 2021 Cite Score is 3.7. It has a 27% acceptance rate.

I was delighted to see that two of our papers were in the most cited for 2021:

McGill, N., Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). “Many wasted months”: Stakeholders’ perspectives about waiting for speech-language pathology services. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 313–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1747541 [11 citations]

McLeod, S., Davis, E., Rohr, K., McGill, N., Miller, K., Roberts, A., Thornton, S., Ahio, N., & Ivory, N. (2020). Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3), 372–386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1731600 [10 citations]

Additionally, the article with the top Altmetric score was ours:

McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1428687 [191 altmetric score]

ECV2022 Day 3

Day 3 and the numbers are climbing...

• 1,938 registrations
• 4,008views
• 945 users 
• 190 drawings
  

CSU FOAE Researcher of the Year; Research Excellence through Partnership; AND Research Thesis of the Year

I received this welcome email thils morning:

"The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and we are delighted to inform you that you have been awarded both the 

Faculty of Arts and Education Researcher of the Year and the 

Research Excellence through Partnership prizes. 

Many congratulations for your fantastic contribution to the University! We would like to invite you to the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023 to receive the awards from the Vice Chancellor.

Professor Mark Evans (Chair) on behalf of the Awards Committee

Shortly afterwards our PhD student received this email: 

Dear Dr Van Tran, The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and we are delighted to inform you that you have been awarded both the

Faculty of Arts and Education Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year prize and the

joint winner of the overall Charles Sturt Research Thesis of the Year prize

This is an award for outstanding research undertaken by an HDR student.

Many congratulations for your fantastic contribution to the University! We would like to invite you to the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023 to receive the awards from the Vice Chancellor.

Professor Mark Evans (Chair) on behalf of the Awards Committee

Dr Van Tran receiving her PhD at graduation in August 2022

Subject:	Vice-Chancellor's 2022 Research Excellence Awards
Date:	07-DEC-22
Subject:	Vice-Chancellor's 2022 Research Excellence Awards
Message:	The Charles Sturt Research Awards Panel has completed its deliberations and have recommended the following award winners to the Vice Chancellor: Teaching Scholar of the Year - Dr Nicole Sugden, School of Psychology, Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences An award for a teaching focused academic (including casual staff) engaged in high quality "scholarship informed" teaching practice. Researcher/Research Team of the Year An award for outstanding research with outcomes extending beyond the University and commendation awards for a researcher/research team from each Faculty. Faculty of Arts and Education: Professor Sharynne McLeod Faculty of Business: Dr Ashad Kabir Faculty of Science and Health: Professor Chris Blanchard Overall winner: Professor Chris Blanchard Excellence as an Early Career Researcher An award for outstanding research undertaken by an early career researcher and commendation awards for a researcher from each Faculty. Faculty of Arts and Education: Dr Jane Garner Faculty of Business: Dr Tyson Whitten Faculty of Science and Health: Dr Nidhish Francis Overall joint winners: Dr Nidhish Francis and Dr Jane Garner Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year An award for outstanding research undertaken by an HDR student and commendation awards for an HDR student from each Faculty. Faculty of Arts and Education: Dr Van Tran Faculty of Business: Dr Scott McManus Faculty of Science and Health: Dr Helenna Mihailou Overall winner: Dr Van Tran Excellence in HDR Supervision - Professor Chris Blanchard An award for outstanding supervision of Higher Degree Research students. Research Excellence through Partnership An award recognising the importance of university researchers initiating, developing, and managing high quality research partnerships with community, industry or international partners. Winner: Waiting for Speech Pathology Team - Professor Sharynne McLeod, Dr Nicole McGill, Dr Kathryn Crowe, Dr Suzanne Hopf, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, and Dr Nicola Ivory Award winners will receive their awards from the Vice Chancellor at the Research Awards Dinner on 23rd February 2023. Details will follow. The Awards Dinner was postponed to the new year due to the impact of the NSW floods. Please join me in congratulating the award winners. Mark Evans, DVCR

Keynote at Bilinguistics Conference in 2023

I have been invited to present a keynote address at the Bilinguistics conference in the US in 2023:

The theme of the 4-Day Virtual Conference – Effectively Evaluate and Treat Speech Sound Disorders in Any Language  and it runs from Monday, January 16th – Thursday, January 19th

https://bilinguistics.com/slp-conference-presentations/

Here are the promo videos for the conference:

McLeod 1 How Does an Assessment Look Different for a Monolingual Child, Bilingual Child, or a Child That Speaks Multiple Languages? 

McLeod 2 What Are Your Go-To Resources for Assessing Multilingual Children? 

https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/home

McLeod 3 There is a wide range in developmental norms. How do we deal with this in practice? 

McLeod 4 Understanding the difference between evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. 

https://www.jr-press.co.uk/creating-practice-based-evidence.html

McLeod 5 A Summary of Current Speech Acquisition Data Across 27 Languages

ECV2022 in the news

The Early Childhood Voices 2022 Conference (ECV2022) is in the news: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/ 

CSU news stories 

• https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/leading-experts-to-speak-at-online-early-childhood-voices-2022-conference 
• https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/children-everywhere-invited-to-draw-talking-for-a-university-conference 

Media

• 2BS radio interview - 5 December 3:30pm
  

Details

Over 1800 registrations from 70 countries 6 keynotes, 99 presentations, 180 children’s drawings of talking

ECV2022 Day 1

Registrations: 1852 

• Yarning 1 registrations 44 
• Yarning 2 registrations 41 
• Yarning 3 registrations 37 
• Yarning 4 registrations 36 
• Yarning 5 registrations 36

 Page views: 2,335 views; 607 users

Top 10 countries for day 1: Australia, Ghana, UK, US, Ireland, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iceland, Netherlands, Latvia 

 

ECV2022 final preparations

ECV2022 will begin on Monday 5th December. We are finalising this exciting event.

Here are the statistics today:

• 1659 registrations from 70 countries
• 181 drawings from children
• 100 presentations to view (6 keynotes and 94 presentations - 99 presentations were accepted)
• 5 yarning circles 
• ECV2022 participants’ countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica , Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

 

Our welcome video is here  

Penultimate meeting before the conference:
Patrick McKenzie, Sharynne McLeod, Shukla Sikder, Carolyn Gregoric

Conference co-chairs, Sharynne McLeod and Shukla Sikder
recording the ECV2022 welcome message with Kevin Ng

Final meeting before the conference: Carolyn, Sharynne, Shukla, Patrick

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia

I had a wonderful evening in Melbourne celebrating my award of Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia with family and colleagues.

Portuguese book chapter has just been published

Our latest book chapter has just been published in the following book that is written in Portuguese (except for our chapter).

Freitas, M. J., M. Lousada & D. Caetano Alves (2022) Linguística Clínica: Modelos, Avaliação e Intervenção. Berlim, Language Science Press (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/358).

All chapters are available at the link above. Here is our chapter's details

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & McGill, N. (2022). Assessment and intervention for children with speech sound disorders. In M. J. Freitas, M. Lousada & D. Alves (Eds.) Liguística clínica: Modelos, avaliação e intervenção [Clinical linguistics: Models, assessment and intervention] (pp. 3-22). Language Science Press.

Learning about Hopi culture

I was priviledged to meet Alberta Selina, a Hopi woman at the Grand Canyon and to learn about her weaving and culture.

According to https://www.hopi-nsn.gov/, "The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation located in northeastern Arizona. The reservation occupies part of Coconino and Navajo counties, encompasses more than 1.5 million acres, and is made up of 12 villages on three mesas."

 

Learning from Selina about Hopi weaving

I bought some books to add to my collection of children's literature
in languages and cultures of the world

ASHA through the years - official photos

ASHA has a new compilation of official photos on its website from past conferences. My friends and I appear in a number of them!

https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-CHZ428B/A

https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-zzmFnwt/A

https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-Sbtpdhv/A 

https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-GqXbhRV/A

https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-rDWHNNs/A

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https://www.rcphotopro.com/ASHA-Through-the-Years-/i-4FWWWWd/A

ASHA Convention 2023 in New Orleans

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the ASHA Convention in New Orleans. I had not attended since 2019 due to the COVID pandemic - and it was wonderful to attend, present, and catch up with old friends and meet new ones.

Here are the numbers:

• In-person - 9,858 
• Total in-person with virtual - 12,005

After spending much of the past 3 years at home to avoid COVID-19 it was unusual (and wonderful) to be amongst so many people.

 

 

ASHA award for contribution to the schools

Congratulations to my long-time colleague Julie Malone, who was awarded the Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution in the Schools at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Awards Ceremony tonight. 

Here is the description of the award: 

The Rolland J. Van Hattum Award for Contribution to the Schools recognizes an individual’s exemplary commitment and contribution to the delivery of audiology and/or speech-language pathology services within a school setting.The Van Hattum Award is a memorial recognition of Rolland J. Van Hattum, who had a long and distinguished career providing audiology and speech-language pathology services and support in the schools. He believed strongly in the dedication and professionalism of his colleagues in the schools and, until his death in 1987, continued to advocate for the support and recognition of their achievements.

The awardee receives a plaque and an award of $2,000. In addition, the recipient’s school system will receive $500 to further the awarded work.  

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION Eligible activities or achievements include, but are not limited to: Conducting exemplary clinical services, supervision, or research in a school setting. Developing an innovative program (e.g., clinical, training) in a school setting, with an emphasis on those that are replicable. Promoting or enhancing public or private support for audiology and speech-language pathology services in the schools. https://www.ashfoundation.org/apply/rolland-van-hattum-award-for-contribution-in-the-schools/

Edy Strand, Julie Malone, Sharynne McLeod

Friends at the ASHA Convention in New Orleans