In this week’s episode, SPA’s Anneke Flinn speaks with Tessa Weadman, paediatric speech pathologist and PhD candidate at La Trobe University. Tessa chats about the clinical applications of her research study looking at the classroom-based shared book reading strategies used by early childhood teachers, and how these can be developed to better support the oral language and emergent literacy skills of preschoolers.

If you would like further information, please contact Tessa on: [email protected]

Speech Pathology Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of lands, seas and waters throughout Australia, and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. We recognise that the health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grounded in continued connection to culture, country, language and community, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.