Multilingual Children's Speech website launch

[Caroline Bowen]

Sharynne McLeod writes (14 November):

Dear Colleagues
Today the Multilingual Children's Speech website has been launched:
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/

The purpose of this website is to present a compilation of resources for
speech-language pathologists who are working with multilingual children with
speech sound disorders and to partially address the following question:
How do we "close the gap between the linguistic homogeneity of the
profession and the linguistic diversity of its clientele"? (Caesar & Kohler,
2007, p. 198)
The website contains the following information:

*Overview: an overview about the site

 *   Position paper: description of the Multilingual Children with Speech
Sound Disorders: Position Paper

 *   Languages: comparative information about 25 languages

 *   Speech acquisition: a summary of speech acquisition for English + a
compilation of information from 250 studies of monolingual speech
acquisition around the world

 *   Speech assessments: a list of 96 speech assessments (articulation and
phonology) in languages other than English (including purchasing
information)

 *   Intelligibility in Context Scale: quick parent-report measure
translated into 29 languages

 *   Information about publications and the research team

Some of the content on this website also may be useful for others who
support monolingual and multilingual children's speech skills including
educators, interpreters, other health and education professionals, families,
and communities.

Funding for this website has been made available from the Australian
Research Council Future Fellowship (FT0990588) and I appreciate the support
from colleagues from Charles Sturt University, as well as speech-language
pathologists, phoneticians, linguists and others around the world have
contributed to the development of this website. Specific contributions are
acknowledged throughout the website; however, the generosity of others
within the wider international community is acknowledged.
Please use this website to make a difference in children's lives.

Please share this information with your colleagues.
Regards
Sharynne

Caesar, L. G., & Kohler, P. D. (2007). The state of school-based bilingual
assessment: Actual practice versus recommended guidelines. Language, Speech,
and Hearing Services in Schools, 38(3), 190-200.
Sharynne McLeod, PhD, CPSP, FSPA, ASHA Fellow
Professor in Speech and Language Acquisition
Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education
(RIPPLE)
Charles Sturt University
Panorama Ave, Bathurst, 2795 AUSTRALIA
Phone 61-2-63384463; Fax 61-2-63384417
Email smcleod at csu.edu.au <mailto:smcleod%40csu.edu.au>
<mailto:smcleod at csu.edu.au <mailto:smcleod%40csu.edu.au> >
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/teached/staff/profiles/professor/mcleod
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