Awards won by our RIPPLE Speech, Language, and Literacies postdoctoral, PhD, and Honours students

Here is a list of just some of the awards won by our RIPPLE Speech, Language, and Literacies postdoctoral, PhD, and Honours students over the past few years. What an outstanding team (and this list is incomplete):

Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar (Crowe, 2016), Churchill Fellowship (Cronin, 2015), Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship (Hopf, 2014), Australian Awards Scholarship (Phạm, 2014-2018), Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Research Scholarship (McCormack, 2010), 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 runner-up (McCormack, 2013; Verdon, 2015), Australian Linguistic Society Gerhardt Laves Scholarship (Hopf, 2015), Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology Editor’s Prize (Crowe, 2014), Australasian Human Development Association Conference Travel Scholarship (Masso, 2015), Speech Pathology Australia Higher Degree Research Grant (Masso, 2015), Charles Sturt University (CSU) Faculty of Education Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (Watts Pappas, 2007; McCormack, 2010; Verdon, 2015), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Student Travel Award (Crowe, 2013), Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Best Student Paper (Verdon, 2014) and Best Student Poster (Masso, 2014), Speech Pathology Australia Student Award for Outstanding Academic and Clinical Performance in the Bachelor program (Limbrick, 2012), CSU Faculty of Education Research Excellence Award (Daniel, 2015), CSU 3 Minute Thesis Competition runner-up (Verdon, 2014; Masso, 2015).

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship awarded to Kate Crowe

Kate Crowe has been awarded a prestigious  Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study in the US with Professor Marc Marschark at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her project is titled Semantic network structure and use in Deaf and Hard of Hearing learners. Here is the Fulbright announcement and the CSU news release is here. She is one of two Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship awardees (the four others received state awards). Here is the abstract:

The purpose of this project is to investigate Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) learners’ semantic networks to improve the effectiveness of approaches to language and literacy learning. The overarching goal of the proposed research is to extend knowledge of semantic networks in DHH learners through three related studies to be undertaken at Rochester Institute of Technology. Specifically, the aims of this project are to (1) examine the within-category structure of semantic networks of DHH learners, (2) understand facilitators and barriers to DHH learners’ access to their semantic networks, and (3) observe the impact of instruction on DHH learners’ use of semantic networks.

Congratulations Kate!

New Becoming a Writer resources

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), in partnership with Dr Noella Mackenzie, has developed a literacy-based resource to support partnerships with families around children’s learning, and planned and spontaneous opportunities for diverse drawing and writing experiences. The resources include an online video (or DVD version) as well as a brochure for distribution to families. The resources will support ongoing engagement with the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) for birth to 8 years.
(Contributed by Kim Woodlands, RIPPLE).