Second edition of Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children

This week I finished checking the copyediting of the 24 chapters in the second edition of Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children. It was a big task - but wonderful to read the book from cover to cover. Speaking of which... the artwork for the cover has just been approved too.

Here is the table of contents:

• Chapter 1 - Introduction - A. Lynn Williams, Sharynne McLeod, and Rebecca J. McCauley
• Chapter 2 - Implementing Interventions - Elise Baker and A. Lynn Williams
• Chapter 3 - Minimal Pairs Intervention - Elise Baker
• Chapter 4 - Multiple Oppositions Intervention - A. Lynn Williams and Eleanor Sugden
• Chapter 5 - Complexity Approach - Michele L. Morrisette
• Chapter 6 - Integrated Phonological Awareness Intervention - Brigid C. McNeill and Gail T. Gillon
• Chapter 7 - Psycholinguistic Intervention - Michelle Pascoe and Joy Stackhouse
• Chapter 8 - Digital Tools for Interventions - Yvonne Wren, Sarah Masso, and A. Lynn Williams
• Chapter 9 - Speech Perception Intervention - Susan Rvachew and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré
• Chapter 10 - Core Vocabulary Intervention - Sharon Crosbie, Alison Holm, and Barbara Dodd
• Chapter 11 - The Cycles Approach - Raúl Francisco Prezas, Lesley C. Magnus, and Barbara Hodson
• Chapter 12 - Stimulability Approach - Adele W. Miccio and A. Lynn Williams
• Chapter 13 - Enhanced Milieu Teaching with Phonological Emphasis - Nancy J. Scherer, Ann Kaiser, and Jennifer R. Frey
• Chapter 14 - Naturalistic Recast Intervention - Stephen M. Camarata
• Chapter 15 - Morphosyntax and Speech Sound Interventions - Ann A. Tyler, Allison M. Haskill, and Jennifer Thompson Mackovjak
• Chapter 16 - Nonlinear Phonological Intervention - Barbara May Bernhardt
• Chapter 17 - Articulation Interventions - Jonathan L. Preston and Megan C. Leece
• Chapter 18 - The Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme - Pam Williams
• Chapter 19 - The PROMPT Approach - Deborah A. Hayden, Aravind K. Namasivayam, Roslyn Ward, Amy Clark, and Jennifer Eigen
• Chapter 20 - Speech Motor Programming Intervention - Kirrie Ballard and Donald A. Robin
• Chapter 21 - Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing - Edythe A. Strand
• Chapter 22 - Biofeedback Interventions - Joanne Cleland and Jonathan L. Preston
• Chapter 23 - Intervention Strategies for Developmental Dysarthria - Lindsay Pennington and Megan M. Hodge
• Chapter 24 - Choosing the Best Intervention: The Nexus among Interventions, Clients, and Clinicians - A. Lynn Williams, Rebecca J. McCauley, and Sharynne McLeod

Early Childhood Research Group meeting - exciting innovations

Today our Early Childhood Research Group met and discussed a number of innovations stemming from the focus on research by our new Dean, Professor John McDonald.

https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-research-group

The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Implications for Community and Social Development

My CSU colleague Professor Manohar Parwar is the editor of The International Journal of Community and Social Development.

The journal has just published a special issue titled "The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Implications for Community and Social Development" (Volume 2, issue 2) available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/coda/2/2

It has insights from Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Southern African Development Community (SADC)

VietSpeech Study 2 data milestone

This week we

• finished the main analyses of the VietSpeech Study 2 English (adult and child) data analysis - Cen (Audrey) Wang and myself
  
• finished entering all of the VietSpeech Study 2 Vietnamese (adult) data so it is ready for analysis - Kate Margetson and Katherine White

Not long ago we finished the VietSpeech Study 2 inter-rater reliability - and were extremely pleased with the high level of reliability amongst raters.

We are writing a series of journal articles that we hope to submit later this year.

Once data collection is over there is a LOT to do!

Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review

Our US consonant acquisition review paper has been published overnight (OPEN ACCESS):

Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168

The new posters have been uploaded : https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition/

(The US posters are located below the posters for English acquisition across the whole world. Note the different images in the top right corner – either children around the world or around the US flag)

This paper used the same methods as the McLeod and Crowe (2018) paper that analysed data across 27 languages (OPEN ACCESS).

McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 1546-1571. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

To support the application of this research to practice, we have co-authored the following paper that is currently in press (but not yet available online):

Ireland, M., McLeod, S., Farquharson, K., & Crowe, K. (2020, in press June). Evaluating children in U.S. public schools with speech sound disorders: Considering federal and state laws, guidance, and research. Topics in Language Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000226

It would have been great to be able to present this work in our invited session at the ASHA convention this year, but it has been cancelled due to COVID-19.

There has been a LOT of positive social media interest in this paper already. For example,

SOTE Colleagues Research Ideas and Encouragement (aka CV writing workshop)

Our School of Teacher Education (SOTE) Colleagues Research Ideas and Encouragement Group (previously called the CV writing workshop). We have had a number of sessions together, so today everyone talked about their life/teaching/research since we last met. I was encouraged to hear that everyone had been working on their research over the semester break, and most had space this semester to continue their momentum. We also talked about:

• Signing up for journal alerts
• Targetting journals when you begin writing each journal article
• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar - linking to CSU library
• Planning for promotion by looking at the requirements for the level above your current employment 
• Teaching quality
• Grant opportunities/workshops/writing ROPES

I really enjoy these meetings.

Belinda, Sharynne, Jenny, Rahul, Jess, James + Brian

COVID-19 books for children

There have been a number of books created for children to unpack COVID-19 and what children can do (washing hands etc.). Here are some:

• UNICEF: My Hero is You (published in 100+ languages): https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-reference-group-mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-emergency-settings/my-hero-you 

• Queensland Health: Birdie and the Virus: https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/covid-19-birdie-virus/
• Australian Childhood Foundation: Understanding Coronavirus For Kids: https://professionals.childhood.org.au/app/uploads/2020/04/Talking-to-Children-COVID-19-Social-Story.pdf