Two PhD students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) have been recognised at the recent 2014 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Melbourne. Ms Sarah Verdon from the School of Teacher Education at CSU in Bathurst was awarded Best Student Paper Prize. Ms Sarah Masso, also from the School of Teacher Education, was awarded one of four Best Poster Prizes at the conference held from Sunday 18 to Wednesday 21 May. Both students are PhD scholars at the University's Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE). They are supervised by Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Professor Sharynne McLeod. In June, Professor McLeod and three of her PhD students – Ms Verdon, Ms Masso, and Ms Suzanne Hopf - will present papers at the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association in Sweden and will host a meeting of the International Expert Panel of Multilingual Children's Speech. Professor McLeod will also visit the Icelandic National Hearing and Speech Institute in late June. Her trip will focus on multilingual children's speech acquisition. : Read more about Professor McLeod's work in her "Speaking my language" blog here.