The International Centre for Child Language Health (ICCLH) is holding a Summer Institute on ‘Training Courses for Speech Pathologists’ in Beijing this July.
This institute, sponsored by the China Disabled Person’s Federation, will be the first of its kind in China, and held at ICCLH headquarters in the Beijing Haidian Special Education School from 7-23 July 2013.
“There is a growing cohort of speech pathologists in China,” says ICCLH Director, Distinguished Professor Stephen Crain, “and it is very exciting to be involved in setting up this professional training.”
“The best part of my job is bringing talented people together, and organising events like this Summer Institute, to benefit children across the world.”
The institute’s offerings will include:
- “Introduction to linguistics and language acquisition”, Professor Stephen Crain and Dr Peng Zhou (Macquarie University),
- “Methodologies in the practice of speech-language pathology”, Ms Jennifer Brown (Macquarie University) and Professor Liqun Gao (Deputy Director of the ICCLH, Beijing Language and Culture University)
- “Introduction to language development and its disorders” Dr Liora Ballin (Macquarie University)
The International Centre for Child Language Health (ICCLH) was opened in September 2012 and initially conceived between the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University, and the Centre for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language at the Beijing Language and Culture University. Several Macquarie University academic staff are members of the executive committee of the ICCLH, including Dr Peng Zhou (also Deputy Director of the ICCLH), Associate Professor Blake Johnson, Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton and Dr Elisabeth Harrison.
The centre brings together researchers, teachers, clinicians and medical practitioners from China and Australia to address the needs of Mandarin-speaking children who suffer from language impairments.
The institute’s location in the Beijing Haidian Special Education School enables ICCLH researchers to have immediate access to children with a variety of language disorders, and to facilitate individualised treatment plans for them, including parental involvement both in treatment plans and as members of the ICCLH advisory board. These features makes the ICCLH a truly unique centre for translating research into practice.
In the past two years, the International Centre for Child Language Health has grown considerably, and currently includes representatives from the following organisations:
This institute, sponsored by the China Disabled Person’s Federation, will be the first of its kind in China, and held at ICCLH headquarters in the Beijing Haidian Special Education School from 7-23 July 2013.
“There is a growing cohort of speech pathologists in China,” says ICCLH Director, Distinguished Professor Stephen Crain, “and it is very exciting to be involved in setting up this professional training.”
“The best part of my job is bringing talented people together, and organising events like this Summer Institute, to benefit children across the world.”
The institute’s offerings will include:
- “Introduction to linguistics and language acquisition”, Professor Stephen Crain and Dr Peng Zhou (Macquarie University),
- “Methodologies in the practice of speech-language pathology”, Ms Jennifer Brown (Macquarie University) and Professor Liqun Gao (Deputy Director of the ICCLH, Beijing Language and Culture University)
- “Introduction to language development and its disorders” Dr Liora Ballin (Macquarie University)
The International Centre for Child Language Health (ICCLH) was opened in September 2012 and initially conceived between the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University, and the Centre for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language at the Beijing Language and Culture University. Several Macquarie University academic staff are members of the executive committee of the ICCLH, including Dr Peng Zhou (also Deputy Director of the ICCLH), Associate Professor Blake Johnson, Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton and Dr Elisabeth Harrison.
The centre brings together researchers, teachers, clinicians and medical practitioners from China and Australia to address the needs of Mandarin-speaking children who suffer from language impairments.
The institute’s location in the Beijing Haidian Special Education School enables ICCLH researchers to have immediate access to children with a variety of language disorders, and to facilitate individualised treatment plans for them, including parental involvement both in treatment plans and as members of the ICCLH advisory board. These features makes the ICCLH a truly unique centre for translating research into practice.
In the past two years, the International Centre for Child Language Health has grown considerably, and currently includes representatives from the following organisations:
- Applied Electronics Laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia
- Beijing Language and Culture University, China
- Beijing Tongren Hospital of Capital Medical University, China
- Beijing Haidian Special Education School, China
- HEARing CRC, Australia
- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science
- National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
- The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, China
