Vale John Bernthal

Emeritus Professor John E. Bernthal, PhD, a giant in the field of children's speech passed away yesterday. His contribution and encouragement will always be treasured.

Professor John Bernthal was ASHA President in 2001. His textbook (Speech Sound Disorders in Children) with Nicholas Bankson and Peter Flipsen Jnr. is currently in it's 9th edition, he created an assessment (BBTOP) and published many articles in the field. He invited me to write a chapter in the 5th edition of his text, and has continued to invite me to write each new addition. We also wrote an encyclopedia entry together. Every ASHA convention he would seek me out to catch up on our lives. Our last conversation was in September 2020 via zoom. He was widely loved and respected - and will be greatly missed throughout the world. Vale John.

ASHA2019: John Bernthal and Sharynne in Orlando, FL

ASHA2016: John Bernthal with Australian SLPs
Ellie Sugden, Elise Baker, Sharynne McLeod, Steph Hernshaw and Kate Crowe

ASHA2013: John Bernthal and Sharynne

Here are my blogposts that include John: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search?q=John+Bernthal

Obituary: https://www.bmlfh.com/obituary/john-bernthal

 

I love these sentences from his obituary "Bernthal crafted a rich personal life. Along with his spouse, Marilyn, he visited every continent except Antarctica. He ate an exceptional amount of ice cream..."

New books for 2022

Today I recieved my copy of the ninth edition of Speech Sound Disorders in Children: Articulation and Phonological Disorders edited by John Bernthal, Nicolas Bankson and Peter Flipen Jnr. I wrote chapter 3 titled "Speech sound acquisition" (pp. 57-108). It was bittersweet, because while I wrote chapter 3, I was in regular contact with John Bernthal, and since that time John has passed away. It is nice to hold his legacy in my hand. It is rare for a book in our profession to make it to the ninth edition.

Today I also received an email from Dee Fish and Amy Meredith who wrote:

Dee and I just submitted our draft to Plural for the 3rd edition of "Here's How to Treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech." ... Throughout this process, we have read your research and reached out to many of you for additional information. This has been a humbling and rewarding process. ... You have all done amazing work for the benefit of these children we all care so deeply about.

Writing an encyclopedia entry

John Bernthal invited me to co-author an encyclopedia entry with him. It has been an interesting experience to write in a different genre. I am so used to referencing my sources, yet encyclopedia entries typically do not provide author (date) citations within text. We have just submitted our revisions and look forward to its publication.
McLeod, S. & Bernthal, J. E. (in press). Speech sounds, articulation of (development of). In P. Brooks, & V. Kemp (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Meeting with a giant in our field

This week A/Prof Elise Baker and I were honoured to meet with Professor Emeritus John Bernthal, University of Nebraska via Zoom. He is currently editing the 9th edition of his popular text. Here are the details of the 8th edition:

Bernthal, J. E., Bankson, N. W., & Flipsen, P. (2017). Articulation and phonological disorders: Speech sound disorders in chilldren (8th ed.). Pearson. 

We had a lot to discuss, including that I have been invited to update my chapter on speech acquisition for the 9th edition, and submitted it a short time ago.

We also lamented that we will not be able to see one another at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention this year in San Diego since the ASHA conference has been cancelled for the first time since World War II.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Orlando, FL

This week, members of the SLM team are attending the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, in Orlando, FL. There were almost 3,000 papers and posters presented over the 3 days and 15,000+ attendees.
Here are the seminars/papers we are presenting:

• McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. - Children’s consonant acquisition across languages. Invited 1-hour seminar. 
• Baker, E., Williams, A. L., McCauley, R. J. & McLeod, S. - A taxonomy of phonological intervention to guide and teach clinical decision-making and fidelity of implementation. 1-hour seminar. 
• Blake, H. L., McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. - Intelligibility Enhancement assessment and intervention for multilingual university students. Technical paper. 
• Brown, M. I., Wang, C., & McLeod, S. - Parent-child book reading impacts academic achievement in Grade 3. Technical paper. 

Alyssa Boucher (Boston University), Sharynne McLeod (CSU), Kate Crowe (CSU/Iceland University), Michelle Brown (CSU), Sheila Deogtardi (Macquarie Uni) at ASHA

Sharynne, Karla Washington, Kate Crowe, Thora Masdottir, Helen Blake and Michelle Brown at the Researcher Academic Town Meeting (Wednesday night)

Sharynne, Rebecca McCauley and Lynn Williams about to present their 1-hour seminar
(Elise Baker presented via voice-over)

Speech Sound Disorders Researchers: Sharynne, Rebecca McCauley, Shelley Velleman, Greg Lof, Kelly Farquharson, Francois Brosseau Lapre, SLP, Brian Goldstein, Katy Cabbage, Jill Hoover, Sarah Masso

Sharynne and Kate Crowe presented an invited 1-hour seminar (and gave out free handouts)

Helen Blake about to present her paper

Dr Michelle Brown about to present her second paper

Michelle Brown, Sheila Degotadi, Sharynne, Lynn Williams (2021 ASHA President), Kate Crowe

John Bernthal and Sharynne catch up every year at the ASHA convention.
Sharynne is currently updating a book chapter in the 9th edition of John's book

Sharynne, Shelley Velleman, Amy Glaspey, Brian Goldstein

Sharynne, Michelle, Kate and Helen sampling Harry Potter's butter beer (100% sugar!)

Helen, Sharynne, Lynn, Michelle, Kate and Marie Ireland at the Harry Potter World ASHA closing party

Meeting old friends and making new friends at ASHA

The annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention is a wonderful time to reconnect with colleagues from around the world, and to meet new colleagues. Much of my time at ASHA is spent discussing research ideas with my colleagues. Here are a few photos of people I was able to meet with while at ASHA this year.

Brian Goldstein and Sharynne
(we are the co-chairs for the 2014 ASHA Cultural and Linguistic Diversity topic)

Li-Rong Lilly Cheng and Sharynne (at Lilly's ASHA Honors party)

Barbara Hodson and Sharynne

Sharynne, Lynn Williams, Marc Fey, Ann Tyler

Stephen Camarata and Sharynne
(Stephen has just written the lead and final articles to the IJSLP scientific forum on autism)

Sharynne and John Bernthal
(happy because we have just finished writing an encyclopedia entry together)

ASHA convention update

The 2016 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention was the largest on record with over 16,000 attendees! Here are some more interesting statistics:

• 4000+ first time attendees
• 3268 proposals submitted from 5918 authors (30% of presenters were first timers)
• 37 short courses presented
• 147 invited sessions presented
• 1072 podium sessions (including technical sessions) presented
• 1740 poster sessions presented
• 32 topic chairs + 519 committee members

My students, colleagues and I presented 6 papers during the convention (1 panel, 1 2-hour seminar, 4 technical sessions) and learned a lot from the other presentations we attended. We also valued the networking opportunities with friends and colleagues from all over the world.

Closing party at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with friends from Turkey and NZ:
Sharynne, Seyhun and Oya Topbas, Kate, Gina Tillard, Brenda

Ellie Sugden, Elise Baker, John Bernthal, Sharynne McLeod, Steph, Kate Crowe

Joanne Cleland (Scotland), Elise Baker and Sharynne at the "meet the author" session at the Pearson booth

One small section of the expansive ASHA Exhibits hall!
The booths were numbered from 100-1400.

Topic chair Danai Fannin and some members of the 2017 ASHA
Cultural and linguistic diversity committee planning next year's convention