RIPPLE Effect showcases work from SLL strand

The final RIPPLE Effect for 2015 has been released and showcases a great year of work, particularly from our Speech, Language and Literacies Strand. 

There is a great wrap up on the achievements of our group throughout the year, plus special features on: 

Tessa Daffern, PhD Student, about the importance of learning to spell and write. 


Noella Mackenzie, on a new writing tool for classrooms.


Suzanne Hopf, on understanding communication diversity in Fiji.


Helen Blake, on her recently endorsed PhD investigating multilingual speaker's intelligibility. 


Sarah Verdon, reflecting back on her PhD journey in time for graduation.



Full articles can be found here http://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/1832204/The-RIPPLE-Effect-Issue-2-2015.pdf 

PhD Graduation

This week saw a very happy end to the academic year with 3 RIPPLE PhD students graduating. 
Below is a photo of our new graduates Dr. Tamara Cumming, Dr. Sarah Verdon and Dr. Tina Stratigos with some of their supervisors and the Vice Chancellor at the Bathurst graduation ceremony.

L-R: Professor Sharynne McLeod, Dr Tina Stratigos, Dr Sarah Verdon, CSU Vice Chancellor Andy Vann, Dr Tamara Cumming, Professor Jennifer Sumsion, Dr Sandie Wong.