PhD students in 2013

I am very fortunate to be working with a group of outstanding PhD scholars this year:

Sarah Verdon (co-supervised with Sandie Wong) 
Topic: Providing equitable and quality services for multilingual children with speech sound disorders

Suzanne Hopf (co-supervised with Sarah McDonagh) 
Topic: An analysis of speech sound acquisition patterns in simultaneous and sequential learners of Fijian English

Sarah Masso (co-supervised with Elise Baker and Jane McCormack) 
Topic: A Sound Start: innovative technology to promote speech and pre-literacy skills in academically at-risk preschoolers

Jacqui Barr (co-supervised with Graham Daniel)
Topic: “I’m not like most other kids”: Sibling experiences of disability and implications for education

Kate Crowe: Submitted 2013 (co-supervised with David McKinnon, Loraine Fordham, Teresa Ching) 
Topic: Multilingual children with hearing loss: Communication and choice

Most of us were able to meet in Bathurst this week either in person or by Skype (my students are scattered across NSW and the Pacific). It was good to enable the team to get to know one another personally and professionally. For Sarah Masso, this was her first visit to Bathurst and her visit included a tour of the town and campus. CSU offers PhD studies by distance education, a model that works successfully and is used by most of my students. Kate Crowe is living proof that such a model works as she submitted her PhD in February, a month ago, one month ahead of schedule.

Kate Crowe, Sarah Masso, Sharynne McLeod, Hannah Wilkin (Honours), Sarah Verdon

Sarah Masso's first visit to Bathurst as a PhD student included a tour of the town

Dr Sarah McDonagh, Kate Crowe, Suzanne Hopf (on Skype), Sarah Masso, Sarah Verdon