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Dr Cori Williams is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University. Her interest in language and cultural diversity extends over more than 30 years. In 2010 she presented on working with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to speech pathologists around Australia as National Tour presenter for Speech Pathology Australia. Wing, C., Kohnert, K., Pham, G., Cordero, K., Ebert, K., Kan, P. F., & Blaiser, K. (2007). Culturally consistent treatment for late talkers. Communication Disorders Quarterly , 29 (1), 20–27. assessment and intervention of communication disorders. Seminars in Speech and Language , 30 (4), 279–289. Williams, C., & McLeod, S. (2011). Speech-language pathologists’ assessment and intervention practices with multilingual children. Manuscript in preparation. Williams, C., & Oliver, R. (2002). What speech pathologists need to know about second language learning. ACQuiring knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing , 3 , 126–128. Windsor, J., Kohnert, K., Lobitz, K. F., & Pham, G. T. (2010). Cross-language nonword repetition by bilingual and monolingual children. American Journal of Speech- Language Pathology , 19 , 298–310. doi: 10.1044/1058- 0360(2010/09-0064

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