Research team

Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod

Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod, PhD

Director, Children’s Voices Centre
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Australian Research Council Future Fellow (FT0990588)

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International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech

The International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech (IEPMCS) consists of approximately 60 members who work in over 30 countries. Invited members are speech-language pathologists, phoneticians, linguists and speech scientists with specialist knowledge and publications in the field of childhood speech sound disorders, multilingualism, or both.

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Speech-Language-Multilingualism (SLM) Team

  • Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod
  • A/Professor Jane McCormack
  • A/Professor Kathryn Crowe
  • A/Professor Sarah Verdon
  • Dr Suzanne C. Hopf
  • Dr Sarah Masso
  • Dr Ben Phạm
  • Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang
  • Dr Michelle I. Brown
  • Dr Kate Margetson
  • Dr Helen L. Blake
  • Dr Anna Cronin
  • Dr Nicole McGill
  • Dr Van H. Tran
  • Holly McAlister

Research students

  • Dr Kate Margetson
  • Dr Van H. Tran
  • Dr Sarah Verdon
  • Dr Kathryn Crowe
  • Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang
  • Dr Michelle I. Brown

PhD students supervised at other universities

  • Anniek van Doornik (PhD), University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Caitlin Hurley (DCD), University of Western Australia
  • Natalie Hegarty (PhD), Ulster University, Northern Ireland
  • Graham Daniel (PhD), University of Western Sydney (Education)
  • Deborah Clarke (EdD) Wollongong University (Education)
  • Deborah James (PhD) The University of Sydney (Speech Pathology)
  • Cathie Matthews
  • Rebekah Lockart
    Thesis: Factors that enhance Australian speech-language pathologists' assessment of the speech of Cantonese-speaking children
  • Ed Gillian
  • Sarah Bartlett
  • Sarah Faulks
  • Holly McAlister
  • Erin Holliday
  • Charlotte Howland
  • Jacquie Barr
  • Angela Elliott
  • Hannah Wilkin
  • Nicole Limbrick
  • Bethany Toohill
  • Sally Squires
  • Amber Roberts
  • Sarah Exton
  • Lynelle Wyllie-Smith

Research assistants

  • Emily-Jane Woodhead
  • Lily To
  • Kylie Huynh
  • Grace Kelly
  • Evelyn Sowter
  • Kate Margetson
  • Anna Cronin
  • Hannah Wilkin
  • Felicity McKellar
  • Alice Whitfield
  • Sarah Verdon
  • Sarah Masso
  • Ben Phạm
  • Ninh Dang Vu
  • Grear McAdam

Research awards

  • Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contributions in International Achievement American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (McLeod, 2024)
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Board Certification in Child Language (BCS-CL) (McLeod, 2022)
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (McLeod, 2022)
  • Honors of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (McLeod, 2021)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (McLeod, 2021)
  • Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology: The Australian Newspaper (McLeod, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024)
  • Topics in Language Disorders Editors’ Katharine G. Butler Trailblazer Award (2020)
    Ireland, M., McLeod, S., Farquharson, K., & Crowe, K. (2020). Evaluating children in U.S. public schools with speech sound disorders: Considering federal and state laws, guidance, and research. Topics in Language Disorders, 40(4), 326-340. https://doi.org/10.1097/tld.0000000000000226
  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Editor’s Award (2018)
    McLeod and Crowe (2018). McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546-1571. https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2019/08/2019-asha-journals-awards/
  • Journal of Speech, Language, and Research: Speech Editor’s Award (2017)
    McLeod, S., Baker, E., McCormack, J., Wren, Y., Roulstone, S., Crowe, K., Masso, S., White, P., & Howland, C. (2017). Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(7), 1891-1910.  https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2018/09/2018-asha-journals-awards/
  • Life Member, Speech Pathology Australia (McLeod, 2015)
  • Diversity Champion, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (McLeod, 2009)
  • Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (McLeod, 2008)
  • Australian Linguistic Society Michael Clyne Award (Tran, 2023)
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA) (Masso, 2019-2021)
  • Charles Sturt University Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year (Tran, 2022)
  • Charles Sturt University Alumni Award – Professional Achievement – Research (Crowe, 2020)
  • Charles Sturt University Alumni Award – Young Alumni (Verdon, 2020)
  • Charles Sturt University Higher Degree by Research University Medal (Cronin, 2020)
  • Charles Sturt University 3 Minute Thesis Competition finalists/runners-up/people’s choice (Margetson, 2024; Tran, 2021; Verdon, 2014; Masso, 2015)
  • Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar (Crowe, 2016)
  • Churchill Fellowship (Cronin, 2015)
  • Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship (Hopf, 2014)
  • Australian Awards Scholarship (Phạm, 2014-2018)
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Meritorious Poster (Phạm, 2017)
  • Australian Linguistic Society Gerhardt Laves Scholarship (Hopf, 2015)
  • SCOPUS Young Researcher Award for Humanities and Social Sciences (McCormack, 2011)
  • NSW/ACT Young Achievers Award for Science Leadership (Verdon, 2014)
  • Pursuit Award for Childhood Disability Research (Canada) runner-up (McCormack, 2013; Verdon, 2015)
  • Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology Editor's Prize (Crowe, 2014)
  • Charles Sturt University Faculty of Education Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (Watts Pappas, 2007; McCormack, 2010; Verdon, 2015)
  • Charles Sturt University Faculty of Education Best Student Paper (Barr, 2008)
  • Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Best Student Paper (Verdon, 2014; Howland, 2016) and Best Student Poster (Masso, 2014)
  • Speech Pathology Australia Student Award for Outstanding Academic and Clinical Performance in the Bachelor program (Limbrick, 2012; Howland, 2016)
  • Charles Sturt University Faculty of Science Dean's Award for Academic Excellence (Limbrick, 2012)
  • Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Research Scholarship (McCormack, 2010)

***HIDDEN - KEPT IN CASE - CHANGES MIND**** Research students' awards

Visitors and collaborators

  • Dr Elise Baker, The University of Sydney, Australia
  • Dr Caroline Bowen, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Professor Kirrie Ballard, The University of Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Vinayagum Chinapah, Stockholm University, Sweden
  • Suzanne Churcher (Churchill Fellow), Portsmouth University, UK
  • Dr Kate Crowe, University of Iceland, Iceland
  • Prof Sheila Degotadi, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Dr Suzanne Churcher, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Professor Jan Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Professor Marios Fourakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • A/Prof Magdalena Janus, McMaster University, Canada
  • Professor David Lee (Fulbright Senior Scholar), University of Miami, FL, US
  • Dr Damjana Kogovšek, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Lê Thi Thanh Xuân (Xuân), Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Việt Nam
  • Lê Khánh Điền (Điền), Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Việt Nam
  • Associate Professor Kathrin Olsen, Nord University, Norway
  • Dr Olebeng Mahura,
  • Dr Þóra (Thora) Másdóttir, The National Hearing and Speech Institute of Iceland, Iceland
  • Professor Rebecca J. McCauley, Ohio State University, OH, USA
  • Dr Jonathan Preston, Syracuse University, USA
  • Dr Carol To, University of Hong Kong, SAR China
  • Anniek van Doornik-van der Zee, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Alenka Vidmar, Kindergarten Kekec, Grosuplje, Slovenia
  • Dr Karla Washington, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Dr A. Lynn Williams, East Tennessee State University, TN, USA
  • Dr Pam Williams, Nuffield Centre, London, UK
  • Dr Adam Winsler, George Mason University, VA, USA
  • Dr Yvonne Wren, University of West of England, UK
  • Mark Volhardt, University of Iceland, Iceland
  • Dr Pam Williams, Nuffield Hearing & Speech Centre, Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital, UK
  • Members of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech
  • Colleagues and students at Charles Sturt University, Australia
  • Speech-language pathologists around the world