Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal profile
Sharynne McLeod is professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia. She is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia, Co-Chair of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech, and Deputy Chair of the Child Speech committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.
The Australian Newspaper named Professor McLeod as Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology in 2018 and “best in the world based on the quality, volume and impact of work” in 2019. She has won Editor’s Awards from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing: Speech (2018) and the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2019).
Professor McLeod is on the editorial board of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and Child Language Teaching and Therapy, and Speech, Language and Hearing. She was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2009-2013). Previously she was the Vice President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, board member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, and editor of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2005-2013).
Professor McLeod's research focuses on monolingual and multilingual children's speech acquisition. Her Multilingual Children’s Speech website has free resources in over 60 languages. She applies the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF-CY, World Health Organization, 2007) to children with speech sound disorders and is named as the only individual in Australia to have contributed to the development of the ICF-CY (WHO, 2007, p. xxv).
Her research foregrounds the right of everyone (particularly children) to participate fully in society. In 2019, she presented a speech about communication rights at the United Nations in New York. Professor McLeod also researches the prevalence and impact of childhood speech sound disorders and links this to policy and service delivery issues. Professor McLeod has been an invited speaker at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association conventions as well as at conferences and universities in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Viet Nam, UK, and US.
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Sharynne McLeod is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 6 Similar Profiles
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output
Intelligibility Enhancement Assessment and Intervention: a single-case experimental design with two multilingual university students
Blake, H. L., McLeod, S. & Verdon, S., 2020, In : Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 34, 1-2, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Intelligibility in Context Scale: cross-linguistic use, validity, and reliability
McLeod, S., 10 Feb 2020, In : Speech, Language and Hearing. 23, 1, p. 9-16 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Waiting list management in speech-language pathology: translating research to practice
McGill, N. & McLeod, S., 02 Jan 2020, In : Speech, Language and Hearing. 23, 1, p. 2-8 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
A longitudinal population study of literacy and numeracy outcomes for children identified with speech, language, and communication needs in early childhood
McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J. & Wang, C., 2019, In : Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 47, p. 507-517 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Aspirations for a website to support families’ active waiting for speech-language pathology
McGill, N. & McLeod, S., 01 Jan 2019, In : International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Prizes
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editor's Award for 2018 (awarded 2019)
Sharynne McLeod (Recipient) & Kate Crowe (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Award
Australia's and World's Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2019)
Sharynne McLeod (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Award
Australia's Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2018)
Sharynne McLeod (Recipient), Sep 2018
Prize: Award
Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Sharynne McLeod (Recipient), 2007
Prize
Press / Media
An interesting career led to PhD for significant multilingual speech research
Helen Blake, Sharynne McLeod & Sarah Verdon
11/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Honour for CSU research, winning Editor’s Award for research on children’s speech
10/12/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
The award-winning Charles Sturt paper that ‘broke’ the internet
03/12/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Another international award for leading Charles Sturt researchers
02/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
New website developed to support children and families waiting for speech help
18/11/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media