International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics World Congress in Italy

This week I am attending the 29^th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, in Turin, Italy. There are over 900 delegates attending from around the world. 

Australian and US delegates at IALP

I am chairing four sessions and presenting the following papers:

1. McLeod, S. Educating SLPs: Building researchers in Australia. Invited presentation in seminar titled Educating SLPs: Different experiences in building researchers.
2. Crowe K. & McLeod, S. A systematic review of the outcomes of children with hearing loss who use languages other than English
3. Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. Supporting multilingual children with speech sound disorders: People, practicalities, and policy.

The following papers will be presented in a 2 hour seminar titled Multilingual children’s speech, language, and hearing

1. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., International Expert Panel on Mutlilingual Children’s Speech Multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Creation of a position paper by an international expert panel.
2. Crowe, K., McLeod, S., McKinnon, D. H., Fordham, L., & Ching, T. Y. C. Multilingual children with hearing loss: Factors influencing parents' choice regarding speech, sign, or multilingualism.
3. Washington, K. N., McLeod, S., Samms-Vaughan, M. & Devonish, H. Considerations during speech and language assessment for bidialectal children in Jamaica.
4. Verdon, S. & McLeod, S. Patterns of language acquisition, usage, and loss in young multilingual children.
5. McLeod, S. Quantifying multilingual children's speech across 30 languages: Intelligibility in Context Scale. 



Sam Harding (UK), Carol Westby (US), Sarah Masso (Australia), & Sue Roulstone (UK)