PROFESSOR SHARYNNE MCLEOD

Sharynne McLeod is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia. She was named Australia’s Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2018, 2019) and Best in the World based on the “quality, volume and impact” of research in the field (2019). She has won Editors’ Awards from Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing: Speech (2018) and American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2019). She was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, previous editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and has co-authored 11 books and over 200 peer reviewed journal articles and chapters focusing on children’s speech acquisition, speech sound disorders, and multilingualism.