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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
ECV2024-437 – The application of participatory health research to identify the research priorities of children who stutter
Amy Connery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (connerya@tcd.ie)
ECV2024-438 – Conceptualising risk-taking in educational settings for enabling pedagogies of courage
Mandy Cooke, Deakin University, Australia (mandy.cooke@deakin.edu.au)
ECV2024-439 – The alignment of Swedish speech-language pathology services with the everyday language and communication abilities of children with developmental language disorder
Lovisa Elm, Linköping University, Sweden (lovisa.elm@liu.se) Inger Lundeborg Hammarström, Linköping University, Sweden (inger.lundeborghammarstrom@liu.se) Christina Samuelsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (christina.samuelsson@ki.se) Charlotta Plejert, Linköping University, Sweden (charlotta.plejert@liu.se) ...
ECV2024-440 – Parents’ and caregivers’ supporting early communication development in Australia
Lucia Flint, Charles Sturt University, Australia (lucia.flint2001@gmail.com) Sarah Verdon, Charles Sturt University, Australia (sverdon@csu.edu.au) Laura Hoffman, Charles Sturt University, Australia (lhoffman@csu.edu.au) Tana Cuming, Charles Sturt ...
ECV2024-441 – Young children’s behavioural engagement while using augmented reality (AR) smart glasses in learning
Gretchen Geng, Flinders University, Australia (gretchen.geng@flinders.edu.au) Yue Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University, China (zhu.yue@hotmail.com) Kathy Green, Australian Catholic University, Australia (kathy.green@acu.edu.au) Amanda Telford, Australian Catholic University, ...
ECV2024-442 – Leading in rural and remote early childhood education and care in Australia and Sweden: A comparative analysis through the lens of the education complex
Leanne Gibbs, Charles Sturt University, Australia (lgibbs@csu.edu.au) Sandra Lund, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
ECV2024-443 – Adaptation of the Early Childhood Voices Drawing Protocol for collecting children’s experiences of play
Carolyn Gregoric, Charles Sturt University, Australia (cgregoric@csu.edu.au) Shukla Sikder, Charles Sturt University, Australia (ssikder@csu.edu.au) Suzanne C. Hopf, Charles Sturt University, Australia (shopf@csu.edu.au) Sharynne McLeod, Charles ...
ECV2024-444 – “All I want for my child is to be confident in their heritage and who they are”: Using parent manifesto framework for supporting strong home-school partnerships for newcomer families
Naheed Mukhi, University of Toronto & Multicultural Health Brokers Edmonton, Canada (naheed.mukhi@mail.utoronto.ca) Andrea A. N. MacLeod, University of Alberta, Canada (andrea.a.n.macleod@ualberta.ca)
ECV2024-445 – Enhancing phonological skills in Persian-speaking children with social communication disorder through narrative intervention
Pegah Nikrah, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (pegah.nikrah1@louisiana.edu) Elena Babatsouli, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA (elena.babatsouli@louisiana.edu)
ECV2024-446 – Development of a culturally appropriate Ghanaian English speech and language assessment tool
Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe, Charles Sturt University, Australia (jbampoe@csu.edu.au) Sarah Verdon, Charles Sturt University, Australia (sverdon@csu.edu.au) Laura Hoffman, Charles Sturt University, Australia (lhoffman@csu.edu.au) Karen Wylie, Curtin ...
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