Listening to children talking about talking

One of our participants showing off his work

Over the past weeks Hannah Wilkin (primary education student), Elissa Shand (speech pathology student) and I have been visiting children in preschools. We have been talking to typically developing 4- to 5-year-old children about talking... and we are learning a lot. We will make comparisons between these current data, and data from the Sound Effects Study (where we talked to children who had speech impairment). Additionally, as part of establishing the children's speech and language skill level, we have been piloting the usefulness of the English version of the International Speech Assessment with another validated assessment tool. Thank you children for teaching us a lot about talking!

Sharynne, Elissa and Hannah with some of the children's drawings