Children's Voices Centre
The Children’s Voices Centre is a beacon of innovation and inclusivity, empowering ALL children to communicate, collaborate, and create a better future for themselves and the world.
Our research focusses two themes:
We amplify children’s voices and champion children’s communication, learning, health, and development.
We conduct world-leading, transformative interdisciplinary research with global reach emphasising inclusivity, diversity, social justice, equity, capacity building, and innovation.
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child guides our work to ensure children's voices are heard by those responsible for building an inclusive world for everyone.
The Children’s Voices Centre works with educators, healthcare, and social care providers to prioritize children's rights, perspectives, and voices in policy and practice, enhancing their well-being and participation in decisions affecting their lives.
The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) helps speech pathologists, educators, and parents in assessing children’s communication. This innovative tool can be used across languages and cultures to identify speech, language, and communication needs early, enabling timely intervention and reducing negative educational and social impacts.
The Children’s Voices Centre cultivates a positive collegial environment to develop the full potential of researchers at all stages of their careers (academics, adjuncts, PhD and higher degree research students).
We build capacity for engaging in transformative research within our group and with other researchers. We provide an internship model of research capacity building where people actively contribute to research with the support of mentors.
Research activities include: co-designing and undertaking research, organising conferences, editing books, writing journal articles and chapters, analysing data, and supporting members to apply for promotion and grants.
We are guided by Charles Sturt University’s ethos:
Yindyamarra winhanganha
The wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in.
and Charles Sturt University’s motto: For the public good
The Children’s Voices Centre was previously known as the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group.
Charles Sturt University aligns our research, policies, procedures, and other work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These are the most relevant SDGs for this initiative.
