Wednesday 27 June 2018

'Assessing speech in children from multilingual backgrounds – current research and clinical applications'


We are pleased to announce the next study day will be jointly run by the South West Speech CEN with the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit. The topic is 'Assessing speech in children from multilingual backgrounds – current research and clinical applications' 

Barbara May Bernhardt and Joe Stemberger are going to present on  “An international cross-linguistic project in typical and protracted phonological development: Clinical Applications”. You can read more about their work at http://phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

We will also have talks along the same theme from Jane Speake (University of Sheffield and previously head of Cambridge) and Rhonwen Lewis (UWIC). The event will end with a panel discussion where attendees can ask questions of the panel. 

More details about the talks  will follow shortly along with the booking information. It will be on Friday 19th October at The Vassall Centre in Bristol and will be an afternoon session (13.30-16.30). We have tried to keep costs low, and it will be £16.31 (which includes eventbrite fees of £1.31)

To book your place please use the eventbrite site: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/assessing-speech-in-children-from-multilingual-backgrounds-tickets-47541983352

Details of presenters and other information will be posted on the CEN facebook page:


Tuesday 27 February 2018

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica Special Edition


Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica Special Edition

Themed call: Transcription of children’s speech

Guest Editors: Yvonne Wren, Sharynne McLeod and Sarah Verdon

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica is pleased to announce information about its next special edition on transcription of children’s speech.

The aim of this special edition is to bring together recent research in the field of transcription of children’s speech and understand the implications this has for clinical practice and research activity.


We invite expressions of interest via email to be submitted by May 1st 2018 to Dr Yvonne Wren (yvonne.wren@bristol.ac.uk). Please use ‘Transcription Special Issue’ in the subject line.

Expressions of interest must include:  
  1. A proposed title
  2. Author names and affiliations
  3. Brief author biosketch of no more than 50 words
  4. An abstract (no more than 300 words): For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data (or what you expect to find); and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.  For reviews, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review (or what you expect to find); and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
  5. A statement to indicate that you will be able to submit the manuscript before 30th September 2018.

The editors (Professor Sharynne McLeod, Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Yvonne Wren) will review all submissions and invite a select few to be submitted as full manuscripts. Authors will be notified about this by end of May 2018.

All selected submissions will undergo blind peer review.

Estimated formal publication is 2019.