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Professor Sharynne McLeod is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow who is undertaking a four-year project titled “Speaking My Languages: International Speech Acquisition in Australia”. She is editor of two books on the topic: International Guide to Speech Acquisition (Cengage) and Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children (Multilingual Matters). She is also editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and a fellow of both Speech Pathology Australia and the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association. 1 Throughout the paper the number of children was always provided alongside the percentage because some of the information presented about language use related to very few children. with suspected speech sound disorders: Results of a national survey. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology , 16 (3), 246-259. Speech Pathology Australia (2001). Membership survey: Speech Pathology Association of Australia 2001 . Melbourne: Speech Pathology Association of Australia. Winter, K. (1999). Speech and language therapy provision for bilingual children: Aspects of the current service. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders , 34 (1), 85–98. Winter, K. (2001). Numbers of bilingual children in speech and language therapy: Theory and practice of measuring their representation. International Journal of Bilingualism , 5 (4), 465–495. Williams, C. J. & McLeod, S. (2011, June). Working with children from multilingual backgrounds: Knowledge and practices of Australian speech pathologists . Paper presented at Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Darwin, NT, Australia.

Correspondence to: Professor Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University Panorama Ave Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia email: smcleod@csu.edu.au

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