Sharynne McLeod

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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 and a Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia. She has held positions including Vice President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association and board member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. Professor McLeod has been the editor of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2005-2013) and on the editorial board of 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).

Professor McLeod's research focuses on monolingual and multilingual children's speech acquisition. 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. 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 conferences and universities in US, UK, Iceland, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Australia.

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Research Output 1997 2019

1 Citation (Scopus)

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.

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Longitudinal Studies

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literacy

childhood

Communication

Motivation

Language

participation

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language

Intelligibility enhancement

Blake, H. & McLeod, S., 2019, The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders. Damico, J. S. & Ball, M. J. (eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Ltd, p. 926-928

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