Sarah Verdon

Personal profile

The overarching goal of my research is to inform the development of high quality, equitable, culturally appropriate health and education services to facilitate positive engagement in society and equity of opportunity for all.
My program of research has two main foci:
(1) To investigate and support the speech, language and literacy development of culturally and linguistically diverse children. I am specifically engaged in research involving families from migrant, refugee and Indigenous backgrounds.
(2) To facilitate the development of culturally competent professionals and workplaces that support people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to participate in safe and respectful spaces that positive lifelong outcomes.

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

Cultural competence

Multilingual and multicultural practice

Children with speech, language, and communication needs

Autism in young children

Early years education

Speech-language pathology

Education/Academic qualification

Speech-language pathology/early childhood education, Doctor of Philosophy, Charles Sturt University

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Research Output 2011 2020

192 Citations
9 h-Index
23 Article
4 Commissioned report
1 Research report not released to public
1 Chapter in textbook/reference book
3 More

1 Citation (Scopus)

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

Research Design

Language

Students

university

student

Ethnography

Howe, T., Verdon, S., Easton, C. & Geiger, M., 2019, Qualitative research in communication disorders : An introductory guide for students and clinicians. Lyons, R. & McAllister, L. (eds.). Surrey, UK: J and R Press, p. 91-115 25 p.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter in textbook/reference book

Exploring multilingual speakers’ perspectives on their intelligibility in English

Blake, H. L., Verdon, S. & McLeod, S., 27 Feb 2019, In : Speech, Language and Hearing. p. 1-12 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Motivation

Language

participation

lack

language

Language proficiency, use, and maintenance among people with Vietnamese heritage living in Australia

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Wang, A. & Tran, V., 24 Jun 2019, In : Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. 1, 1, p. 55-79 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

speaking

language

social benefits

first generation

multilingualism

Multilingualism and speech sound disorders

McLeod, S. & Verdon, 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. 1203-1206 4 p.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

multilingualism

language

expert

dialect

community