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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
ECV2024-427 – A flood of raindrops does not nourish the soil: Mentor knowledge of the APSTs and its impact on supervising pre-service teachers amidst growing teacher supply initiatives in early childhood education
Janine Krecko, Charles Sturt University, Australia (jkrecko@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-428 – Using an implementation science framework to co-design and test the Speech Assessment of Children’s Home Language(s) (SACHL)
Kate Margetson, Charles Sturt University, Australia (kmargetson@csu.edu.au) Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australia (smcleod@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-429 – Lost in translation: Barriers and opportunities for early childhood educators to enact child protection research recommendations
Isabelle Martiensen, Charles Sturt University, Australia (izzie0711@gmail.com) Angela Fenton, Charles Sturt University, Australia (afenton@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-430 – Mathematics education for children birth to three years old: The influence of educators’ beliefs on practice
Samantha McGrath, Charles Sturt University, Australia (mcgse001@optusnet.com.au) Angela Fenton, Charles Sturt University, Australia (afenton@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-431 – Steppingstones: Supporting parents of children with neurological difficulties (CWND) in Fiji
Haritha Amunugama, Frank Hilton Organization, Suva, Fiji (haritha.a@hilton.org.fj) Dira Ah Kee, Frank Hilton Organization, Suva, Fiji (dira@hilton.org.fj) Chamila Sewwandi, Frank Hilton Organization, Suva, Fiji (chamila.s@hilton.org.fj) ...
ECV2024-432 – Some bilingual phonological usage frequencies compared to targeted language frequencies
Elena Babatsouli, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (elena.babatsouli@louisiana.edu)
ECV2024-433 – Caregiver implemented intervention for early communication development: A review of evidence for Hanen® programs
Sarah Bartlett, Charles Sturt University, Australia (sabartlett@csu.edu.au) Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University, Australia (smcleod@csu.edu.au)
ECV2024-434 – Using adapted scoring to increase utility of the Expressive Vocabulary Test within a multilingual context
Nicole Bazzocchi, University of Toronto, Canada (nicole.bazzocchi@mail.utoronto.ca) Karla N. Washington, University of Toronto, Canada (karla.washington@utoronto.ca)
ECV2024-435 – Amplifying children’s voices using drawings and the Speech Participation and Activity Assessment of Children
Nicole Bazzocchi, University of Toronto, Canada (nicole.bazzocchi@mail.utoronto.ca) Lauren Choi, University of Toronto, Canada (lauren.choi@mail.utoronto.ca) Katarina Miletic, University of Toronto, Canada (katarina.miletic@mail.utoronto.ca) Karla N. Washington, University ...
ECV2024-436 – Grieving play
Marie Bradwell, Plymouth Marjon University, England, UK (mbradwell@marjon.ac.uk)
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