Charles Sturt’s presentation to speech-language pathologists was designated as a “Change Maker” session at the ASHA Convention at the largest meeting of American speech-language pathologists.
- Charles Sturt University experts addressed 16,000 American speech-language pathologists at their annual conference in Boston, USA.
- It was the show Designated as a “Change Maker” session for the ASHA Convention
- The bid was one of 117 Presentations Selected from 3,400 entries
Recognized as exceptional and that encourages or demonstrates innovation
Researchers from Charles Sturt University addressed participants at the largest meeting of American speech-language pathologists.
Charles Sturt Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharyn McLeod in the Charles Sturt School of Education addressed the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with Charles Sturt PhD student Ms Kate Margetson and Charles Sturt Adjunct Associate Professor Kate Crowe.
This is the largest meeting of American speech-language pathologists and is attended by 16,000 participants.
In the lead-up to the conference, organizers advised Professor McLeod that their presentations on “Methods for Accurate Differential Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder in Multilingual Children” were designated as a “Change Maker” session at the ASHA Convention.
This private label was developed specifically for the 2023 ASHA Convention, in keeping with its theme “Igniting Innovation,” Professor McLeod said.
“It was a great honor to be invited to speak to such a large gathering of peers,” Professor McLeod said.
The selection specifically recognizes exceptional presentations that encourage or demonstrate innovation in one of the following ways:
- The potential for significant or significant positive change at the patient, system, or discipline level.
- Strong evidence that the work submitted has had a significant impact, or has the potential to create significant change, at the individual, systemic, or disciplinary level.
- Translational research or clinical work that significantly changes future practice or research (e.g., contributes to new best practices).
Organizers said there were several sessions on this topic that were very strong, highlighting great examples of innovation in practice, but Charles Sturt’s team was one of only 117 teams specially selected from more than 3,400 entries.
Each thematic committee had the option to recommend only three highly rated sessions deserving of this special “Change Maker” recognition, across any session format, any member or affiliation type, and across the Professional Education and Research application categories.
The presentations by Professor McLeod, Ms Margetson and Associate Professor Crowe were assessed as exceptional and worthy of this special recognition and were presented in the topic area ‘Speech sound disorders in children with normal hearing’ at the conference held on Saturday 18 November.
Co-authors of “Methods for Accurate Differential Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder in Multilingual Children” are Carla Washington (Canada), Katherine Crowe (Charles Sturt, Iceland), Sharyn McLeod (Charles Sturt), Kate Margetson (Charles Sturt), Leslie Kokotic (Canada). ), Pauline van der Straaten Waillet (Belgium), Thora Masdóttir (Iceland), Mark Vollhardt (Iceland).
Also at the conference, ASHA launched its “Developmental Milestones” collection. The data used by ASHA to describe children’s speech development are from a paper written by Professor McLeod and his colleague Dr Kate Crowe in 2020, entitled ‘Acquisition of English Consonants in US Children: A Review’. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology29(4), 2155-2169.
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Media note:
To arrange interviews with Professor Sharyn McLeod and Kate Margetson, contact Trease Clarke at Charles Sturt Media on mobile 0409 741 789 or via news@csu.edu.au
Charles Sturt University presentations (Charles Sturt authors in bold) at the ASHA conference in Boston:
McLeod, S., Blake, H.L., Crowe, K., Louw, B., Farquharson, K., Berube, D., Goldstein, B., Babatsouli, E., Kakia Petinou, Zajdó, K., Washington, K.N., Auza, A., Buntová, D., Oravkinova, Z., and Mesdottir, T. (2023, November). Develop children’s speech in more than 70 languages and dialects. [one-hour oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ireland, M., Verdon, S., and Macleod, S. (2023, November). Group decision making of SLPs in schools: Tensions and the influence of rules [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
McLeod, S. and Marshall, J. E. (2023, November). Speech-Language Pathologists and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. [Oral presentation]. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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“Methods for Accurate Differential Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder in Multilingual Children” is co-authored by Carla Washington (Canada), Charles Sturt Associate Professor Kate Crowe, Charles Sturt Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharyn McLeod, and Charles Sturt PhD student Kate Margeston.
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