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Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024
ECV2024 Launch | 25th November 2024 (1 Hour and 5 mins)
Press Gallery report by students from Assumption Catholic Primary School Bathurst
ECV2024 is an interdisciplinary international conference that provides a platform to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners that supports social justice during early childhood or within the early childhood sector.
ECV2024 is organised by the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group and is an opportunity to present research in a virtual online space. ECV2024 showcases the work of four outstanding keynote presentations as well as 147 oral presentations in three streams.
• STREAM 1: Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research (ECV2024-401-471)
• STREAM 2: Multilingual children’s speech development (ECV2024-500-575)
• STREAM 3: Children Draw Playing Global Online Gallery
ECV2024 was held entirely online and asynchronously from 25–28 November 2024. There was no registration fee and no fees to present or view the presentations. The presentations remain online.
We received 1333 registrations from 54 countries/regions!
Papers are aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals,
especially SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 8, SDG 10, and SDG 17.
We are excited to announce the establishment of the Children’s Voices Centre https://www.csu.edu.au/research/childrens-voices-centre/home
Our hope is that this conference supports social justice during early childhood or within the early childhood sector across the world. Thank you for your participation.
Distinguished Professor Sharynne McLeod and Dr Belinda Downey
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Chairs
Dr Carolyn Gregoric
Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Voices 2024 Conference Secretary
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Keynote Speakers
1. Developing and retaining a workforce for high-quality early childhood education and care
Dr Elizabeth Shuey
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2. Neurodiversity-affirming approaches to play: Perspectives from research with autistic children and adults
Professor Jenny L. Gibson University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. Giving voice to ‘villages’, listening to ‘Country’: It’s time to unlock the power of ‘place’
Professor Tony Dreise
Charles Sturt University, Australia
4. Embracing systems thinking to open conditions of possibility for the early childhood education workforce
Dr Tamara Cumming
Macquarie University, Australia
Early childhood voices: International interdisciplinary research
Stream 1
Presentations By Topics
- All
- Children's voices
- Communication
- Education
- Families' voices
- Health
- Indigenous voices
- Innovation
- Interdisciplinary
- Leadership
- Multilingual
- Presentations
- Professionals' voices
- Rural communities
- Vulnerable Communities
- Wellbeing
- Workforce
- All
- Children's voices
- Communication
- Education
- Families' voices
- Health
- Indigenous voices
- Innovation
- Interdisciplinary
- Leadership
- Multilingual
- Presentations
- Professionals' voices
- Rural communities
- Vulnerable Communities
- Wellbeing
- Workforce
ECV2024-417 – Voices and visions: Engaging children with childhood apraxia of speech in intervention research
Marie Ireland, Charles Sturt University, Australia (maireland@csu.edu.au) Anna Cronin, Australian Catholic University, Australia (anna.cronin@acu.edu.au) Jane McCormack, Australian Catholic University, Australia (jane.mccormack@acu.edu.au) Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt ...
ECV2024-418 – The index of phonetic complexity: Adaptation for Urdu
Saira Ambreen, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong (saira.ambreen90@gmail.com) Carol To, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong ...
ECV2024-419 – The sound of silence: On the (a)typical nature of initial consonant omission in European Portuguese
Mariana Castro, University of Lisbon, CLUL, Portugal (marianacastro1905@gmail.com) Maria João Freitas, University of Lisbon, CLUL, Portugal (mariajoaofreitas64@gmail.com) Ana Margarida Ramalho, Alcoitão School of Health Sciences, ...
ECV2024-420 – Characteristics of effective parent-mediated interventions for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders in rural areas
Julia Cullenward, Charles Sturt University, Australia (Juliacullenward03@gmail.com) Vagner Dos Santos, Charles Sturt University, Australia (vdossantos@csu.edu.au) Michael Curtin, Charles Sturt University, Australia (mcurtin@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-421 – Early childhood educators talking about the strengths and needs of Aboriginal children during transition to school
Lysa Dealtry, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ldealtry@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-422 – Assessment at play: Championing the capacities of children and empowering the mathematical pedagogue
Joanne Grimmond, Charles Sturt University, Australia (jgrimmond@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-423 – Social competence interventions for children with developmental vulnerability: A systematic review
Ainsley Harben, Charles Sturt University, Australia (aaharben@gmail.com) Tracey Parnell, Charles Sturt University, Australia (tparnell@csu.edu.au) Michael Curtin, Charles Sturt University, Australia (mcurtin@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-424 – Examining primary teachers’ knowledge and confidence in teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as cross-curricular priority: A narrative review
Muhammad Alamgir Hossain, Charles Sturt University, Australia (muhhossain@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-425 – Children’s perspectives of connections between play and learning
Carmen Huser, Charles Sturt University/ Early Childhood Australia, Australia (chuser@earlychildhood.org.au)
ECV2024-426 – Models for an inclusive educational environment for children and students with attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorder
Diana Ignatova, Sofia University, “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria (ddignatova@uni-sofia.bg)
Multilingual children's speech development
(Stream 2)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The work of the Early Childhood Research Group supports SDGs 3, 4, 8, 10 (and others). Each presentation was aligned with relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals