Oradora convidada
Sharynne MacLeod
(Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Site: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/schools/education/staff/profiles/professor/mcleod_sharynne
McLeod, S. & Margetson, K. Assessing children's speech in unfamiliar languages: Insights from Vietnamese-English children.
Abstract: There are over 7,000 languages spoken across the world. Communication professionals have the power to enhance everyone's participation in day-to-day life. However, when working with multilingual children, professionals can focus on their own dominant language, and limit children's full participation and communication rights to speak home language(s) within families and communities. This presentation provides a clear step-by-step process for how to assess children's speech in unfamiliar languages using free resources found on the Multilingual Children's Speech website (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/home). The process will be explained using evidence from VietSpeech (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech), a 4-year research program working with Vietnamese-English speaking children and families in Australia. Participants will learn how to use the step-by-step process for assessing children in any language and support home language maintenance.
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
McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech. (2017). Tutorial: Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(3), 691–708. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_AJSLP-15-0161
Margetson, K., McLeod, S., Verdon, S., & Tran, V. H. (2023). Transcribing multilingual children's and adults' speech. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 37(4-6), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2051073
McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Margetson, K., Tran, V. H., Wang, C., Phạm, B., To, L., & Huynh, K. (2023). Multilingual speech acquisition by Vietnamese-English–speaking children and adult family members. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(7), 2184-2229. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-21-00669
Biography: Sharynne McLeod, PhD is a Distinguished Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia specialising in speech and language acquisition. Her transformative research has reframed the profession by foregrounding communication rights and social justice, and by enhancing equitable participation for multilingual children with speech, language and communication needs. She has advocated for communication rights at the United Nations and the World Health Organization. She served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and has received Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Membership of Speech Pathology Australia. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. She has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. The Australian Newspaper named her Australia's Research Field Leader and Best in the World in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology based on the "quality, volume and impact" of her research.