November 14, 2013

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Chicago

Sarah Verdon, Sharynne, Kate Crowe at the entrance to the exhibit hall
This week is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Chicago, IL. I was on the Issues in Culturally and Linguistically Diversity topic committee, so was invited to review many papers earlier in the year. While at ASHA I am co-presenting 6.5 hours of technical reports and seminars including a 3-hour short course:

Crowe, K., McLeod, S., McKinnon, D. H., Fordham, L., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2013, November). Language choice for children with hearing loss: Influences on caregiver decision-making. (30 minute oral presentation). [Winner of the ASHA student prize for best abstract in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Topic]
Kate Crowe
McLeod, S., Bowen, C., Verdon, S., & Guiberson, M. (2013). Empowering monolingual SLPs to work with multilingual children with speech sound disorders. (3 hour short course)
Mark Guiberson, Sharynne, Caroline Bowen and Sarah Verdon planning our 3 hour short course
McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2013, November). A systematic review of tools to assess children’s speech in languages other than English. (30 minute oral presentation)
Sarah Verdon and Sharynne at ASHA 2013
McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C. & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2013, November).  Aspirations of an international expert panel for working with multilingual children with speech sound disorders. (30 minute oral presentation).
Members of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech after our presentation
McLeod , S., Crowley, C. J., Williams, A. L.,  Louw, B., Westby, C., To , C. K. S., Washington, K. N., & MacLeod, A. A. N. (2013). Beyond Spanish: Competencies for SLPs working with children from diverse cultures. (2 hour seminar). 
Beyond Spanish seminar presenters: Sharynne, Karla Washington, Carol To, Lynn Williams, Andrea MacLeod, Brenda Louw, Carol Westby, Cate Crowely
Washington, K. McLeod, S., Devonish, H., & Samms-Vaughan, M. (2013, November).  Cross-cultural competencies for working with bi-dialectal children from Jamaica. Paper (20 minute oral presentation within a 2-hour seminar).