Sharynne McLeod
@sharynnemcleod.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, communication rights advocate, speech-language pathologist, multilingual children's speech researcher, educator, FASSA, FRSN https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/smcleodcsueduau #ChildSpeechDis
In our interview, Dr. Felipe Venâncio Barbosa tells us about the theme for #IASCL2027: "Language Acquisition Beyond Borders and Modalities: Exploring Diversity". Don't forget to submit your abstracts by Sept 30th: iascl2027.fflch.usp.br youtu.be/wOjBLHuKjC0?...
Only ONE year to go until #ICPLA2027 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. We now have a draft high level conference programme for you to view to help with planning. Registration information will appear v soon: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p... #phonetics #linguisitcs
Conference Programme | University of Strathclyde
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ICPLA 2027@icpla2027.bsky.social · 7mo agoSave the date for the 21st biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA): 14th to 16th of June 2027 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Abstract deadline 14th Jan, 2027. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...
Excited to share new research from my PhD project, focusing on supporting Pasifika children with #SLCN in ways that acknowledge and honour their cultures and languages and how we can continue to improve our culturally responsive practices as #SLPs 💙🩵 @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social @csu.edu.au
Mountain garden views: speech-language pathologists’ beliefs, practices and aspirations for culturally responsive practice with Pacific Islander children and families
The Pacific Islands encompasses a linguistically and culturally diverse geographical region. Most Pacific Island countries have few speech-language pathology services. In Pacific Islander diaspora ...
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Save the date for the 21st biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA): 14th to 16th of June 2027 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Abstract deadline 14th Jan, 2027. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...
ICPLA 2027 | University of Strathclyde
strath.ac.uk
Evidence to disrupt the unsubstantiated belief that there are few assessment and intervention resources for supporting multilingual children’s speech: Global knowledge in 131 languages and dialects about children’s speech development, assessment, and intervention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Global knowledge in 131 languages and dialects about children’s speech development, assessment, and intervention
This paper exhorts communication specialists to look beyond English language knowledge by providing evidence to disrupt the unsubstantiated belief that there are few assessment and intervention res...
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Hearing loss can impact your speech, learning, confidence, and future. The good news? Over 60% of hearing issues are solvable. Dive into today's Daily Dose for more insights.
🔐💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Margetson, K., & @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social (2025). Multilingual Speech Assessment: Using an #ImpSci Framework to Explore Acceptability of the Speech Assessment of Children's Home Language(s) (SACHL). doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis
Multilingual Speech Assessment: Using an Implementation Science Framework to Explore Acceptability of the Speech Assessment of Children's Home Language(s) (SACHL)
Purpose: The Speech Assessment of Children's Home Language(s) (SACHL) offers a new, evidence-based clinical protocol for speech-language patholog...
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In the last Child Language Bulletin (www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin) Annick De Houwer looked back at HaBilNet3, which welcomed over 70 junior & senior participants to Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain to discuss language-related well-being in bilinguals. Sounds like it was a stimulating workshop!
🇹🇷 Close to my heart 💖 in @ashajournals.bsky.social 🆓🔓 Dükar, B. N., & Toğram, B. (2025). Adaptation of Parents and Children Together Intervention Program Into Turkish and Investigation of its Effectiveness. JSLHR, 1–20. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis #parents #PACT
Adaptation of Parents and Children Together Intervention Program Into Turkish and Investigation of Its Effectiveness
Purpose: This study adapted the Parents and Children Together (PACT) intervention program into Turkish and evaluated its effectiveness in childre...
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Congratulations @leannetogher.bsky.social on becoming a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association tonight in Washington DC. A well deserved honour from an association with nearly 250,000 members
Here is the research I presented to @WHO this week in Geneva on behalf of children from 20+ countries about health equity for children with disabilities. Children’s Voices Centre @ CharlesSturtUni. It was an honour www.csu.edu.au/research/chi...
Children’s health
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Sharynne McLeod@sharynnemcleod.bsky.social · 11mo agoIt was a privilege to attend the @WHO Disability Health Equity Network meeting in Geneva to read children’s recommendations to the World Health Organization about disability health equity based on research from the Children’s Voices Centre at Charles Sturt University in Australia @CharlesSturtUni
Congratulations to the amazing @WHO Disability Programme team - Darryl Barrett, Kaloyan Kamenov, Mélanie Gréaux, and Francesca Moro who hosted the Disability Health Equity Network meeting in Geneva. I was honoured to read children’s recommendations from Children’s Voices Centre @CharlesSturtUni
It was a privilege to attend the @WHO Disability Health Equity Network meeting in Geneva to read children’s recommendations to the World Health Organization about disability health equity based on research from the Children’s Voices Centre at Charles Sturt University in Australia @CharlesSturtUni
Thank you to all who have already visited the #ialp #childrenvoicescentre display to talk about our shared passion for supporting children's health and wellbeing. @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social, @helenlblake.bsky.social and I are looking forward to more visitors this week at #RCM76 @whowpro.bsky.social
#ResearchTuesday! Children across the world use drawing to show how they talk to, what they talk about, and how they feel about talking. Read more about this study of children from 24 countries! https://at.asha.org/Nn @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social
Children Draw Talking Around the World
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how children from across the world draw themselves talking and to apply an interdisciplinary a...
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Next week we officially launch the Children’s Voices Centre at The Treehouse. We are a Charles Sturt University Research Centre that undertakes global, transformational, interdisciplinary research with, for and about children. www.csu.edu.au/research/chi...
#LSHSS study explored cross-linguistic transfer in Vietnamese-English–speaking children's and adults' speech at phoneme and syllable levels. https://on.asha.org/47kgIDD @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social
Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Vietnamese–English Speech
Purpose: Typically developing multilingual children's speech may include mismatches and phonological patterns that are atypical in monolingual pe...
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It has been wonderful to collaborate with and learn from colleagues from 58 countries at the #IALP International Association of Communication Science and Disorders conference this week. Malta was a spectacular cultural and historic location ialpmalta2025.org
This study focuses on two of the most common methods for measuring speech intelligibility in children in clinical practice and in research: orthographic transcription measures and parent-reported ratings as measured by the Intelligibility in Context Scale https://on.asha.org/4n2yIqR
Characterizing the Relationship Between the Intelligibility in Context Scale and Transcription Intelligibility in Typically Developing English-Speaking Children Between Ages 2;6 and 9;11
Purpose: The goal of the present study was to quantify the relationship between Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) scores and transcription i...
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Ever wondered, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES about the relationship b/n individual Intelligibility in Context item scores & orthographic transcription intelligibility scores within age bands? pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... @ashajournals.bsky.social @tjmahr.com @katieh-wisc.bsky.social @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social
Characterizing the Relationship Between the Intelligibility in Context Scale and Transcription Intelligibility in Typically Developing English-Speaking Children Between Ages 2;6 and 9;11
Purpose: The goal of the present study was to quantify the relationship between Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) scores and transcription i...
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Children Draw Talking: Look at what we can learn from this open access article about 200 children from 24 countries who drew themselves talking @ashajournals.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
Children Draw Talking Around the World
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how children from across the world draw themselves talking and to apply an interdisciplinary a...
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A wonderful open access international collaboration exploring methods of diagnosing speech sound disorders in multilingual children @ashajournals.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
Methods of Diagnosing Speech Sound Disorders in Multilingual Children
Purpose: Identification of speech sound disorder (SSD) in children who are multilingual is challenging for many speech-language pathologists (SLP...
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"Children's perception of their own speech is complementary to information obtained from the parents and SLPs' formal assessment of speech accuracy"; however, there are some differences especially for children with speech sound disorder @ashajournals.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Children's, Parents', and Experts' Perception of Speech and Communication
Purpose: This study aims to improve our knowledge of how young children with speech sound disorders (SSD) perceive their own speech and communica...
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"Children's perception of their own speech is complementary to information obtained from the parents and SLPs' formal assessment of speech accuracy"; however, there are some differences especially for children with speech sound disorder @ashajournals.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Children's, Parents', and Experts' Perception of Speech and Communication
Purpose: This study aims to improve our knowledge of how young children with speech sound disorders (SSD) perceive their own speech and communica...
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Study aims to improve our knowledge of how young children with speech sound disorders (SSD) perceive their own speech and communication in comparison with typically developing (TD) children and how these perceptions relate to parental judgment. on.asha.org/4eXOEYh @sigperspectives.bsky.social
Children's, Parents', and Experts' Perception of Speech and Communication
Purpose: This study aims to improve our knowledge of how young children with speech sound disorders (SSD) perceive their own speech and communica...
on.asha.org
💰🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social van Doornik A. Franken MC, @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social, Terband H & @logopedie.bsky.social (2025) Children's, Parents', & Experts' Perception of Speech & Communication. LSHSS. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🇳🇱 Dutch-speaking + multilingual chn 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childspeechdis
Children's, Parents', and Experts' Perception of Speech and Communication
Purpose: This study aims to improve our knowledge of how young children with speech sound disorders (SSD) perceive their own speech and communica...
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This longitudinal study of 1,534 Indigenous Australian children shows the importance of parents' concern as an indicator of children's future educational outcomes. @ashajournals.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
Parent-Reported Speech and Language in Early Childhood Is an Early Indicator of Indigenous Australian Children's Literacy and Numeracy Outcomes
Purpose: The aim of this study was to longitudinally investigate parent-reported children's speech and language in early childhood as an early in...
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This innovative research was undertaken by Caitlin Hurley - who is both a dentist and a speech-language pathologist - "Extraction of primary maxillary incisors and children’s speech production: A case series" @carolinebowen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extraction of primary maxillary incisors and children’s speech production: A case series
Dental caries (tooth decay) is a disease with a significant global burden. Management may necessitate the extraction of teeth to restore oral health. The association between dental extractions and ...
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