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Jane is a speech-language pathologist with experience in early intervention and education. Since 2007, she has taught child speech and language subjects in the speech pathology program at Charles Sturt University. Her research has focused on understanding the experiences of individuals with communication difficulties and their families, and difficulties they may have with life activities. She has used the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF; WHO, 2001) extensively in this work. In 2011, and was awarded the SCOPUS Australian Young Researcher of the Year for Humanities and Social Sciences for her research. In 2012 she was awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship at CSU to extend her research in this area.

Positions and Roles

• Discipline Leader for the Speech Pathology Program
• Lecturer for the Speech Pathology Program

Teaching

Jane has been lecturing in the speech pathology program at CSU since 2007 (as a permanent staff member since 2011), and has been the workplace learning coordinator for the program since 2012.  She is involved in the supervision of honours and post-graduate students investigating the links between oral language difficulties and literacy development, collaborative and transdisciplinary practice and the provision of information to people following traumatic brain injury.
In 2012, Jane co-designed the Master of Speech Pathology course at CSU, which has included the development of 16 new subjects. The Masters course will be offered by distance education, and so has been developed to incorporate a range of new technologies.

Subjects Delivered

• Therapeutic Communication Practice – 2, 4a and 4b
• Speech Impairment in Children
• Audiology and Auditory Processing
• Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Innovations in Teaching

Master of Speech Pathology program

• Course design and subject development

Bachelor of Speech and Language Pathology

• Ongoing development of the Virtual Speech Pathology Clinic
• Utilisation of chat rooms to support students undertaking workplace learning external to campus
• Delivery of online lectures via Adobe Connect

Research and Publications

Jane is interested in the long-term difficulties associated with childhood communication impairment and the experiences of individuals with communication impairment and their families. She is interested in the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – Children and Youth version (WHO, 2007) for the holistic management of children with communication impairment and their families. 
Jane is also interested in investigating services provided to children with communication difficulties (and other health needs), and in developing models of collaborative practice between speech pathologists and early childhood professionals to ensure all children are supported in their preschool years. She is interested in alternative models of service delivery, and in the health and wellbeing of children in rural and remote areas of Australia.
Jane has been involved with two ARC Discovery Projects; Jane was the Project Officer for the first project, “Children with speech impairment: A population study of prevalence, severity, impact and service provision” from 2007-2009.  She is currently a chief investigator on the second, “A sound start: Innovative technology to promote speech and pre-literacy skills in at-risk preschoolers” (2013-2015) with researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of the West of England.

List of Publications

Books

• McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (2015). An Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Book chapters

• McCormack, J., McLeod, S., & Harrison, L. J. (2014, in process). Communication Development. In S. Garvis (Ed.). Health and wellbeing in the early years. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• McCormack, J. & McLeod, S. (2014, in process). The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – Children and Youth version (ICF-CY). In S. Garvis (Ed.). Health and wellbeing in the early years. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (2015, in process). What is speech, language and literacy? In S. McLeod & J. McCormack (Eds.). An Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• McCormack, J. & Easton, C. (2015, in process). Environments of speech, language and literacy. In S. McLeod & J. McCormack (Eds.). An Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• McCormack, J., Jacobs, D., & Washington, K. (2012). Specific mental functions- Language (b167). In A. Majnemer (Ed.). Measures for children with developmental disabilities: Framed by the ICF-CY. London: Mac Keith Press.
• McLeod, S., McCartney, E. & McCormack, J. (2012). Communication (d310-d369). In A. Majnemer (Ed.). Measures for children with developmental disabilities: Framed by the ICF-CY (pp. 312-325). London: Mac Keith Press.  http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/books/forthcomingTitles/HE00/1-908316-45-4/?sID=1bs2lobkmtq3m6rhn9i2ui8g81)
• McLeod, S., McCormack, J., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L. & Holliday, E. (2011). Listening to 4- to 5-year-old children with speech impairment in Australia. In S. Roulstone & S. McLeod (Eds.). Listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. London: J&R Press.
• Harrison, L., & McCormack, J.  (2011). Listening to children in longitudinal, population-based studies. In S. Roulstone & S. McLeod (Eds.). Listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. London: J&R Press.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• McCormack, J. (2013). Mapping speech pathology services to developmentally vulnerable and at risk communities using the Australian Early Development Index. Manuscript in preparation.
• McCormack, J. (2013). The identification of communication impairment and receipt of speech and language therapy services at 2-3 years. Manuscript in revision.
• McLeod, S., McAllister, L., McCormack, J. & Harrison, L. J. (2012). Applying recommendations from the World Report on Disability to Australian children with communication disability. Manuscript in revision.
• Limbrick, N., McCormack, J., & McLeod, S. (2012). Designs and decisions: Speech pathologists’ creation and use of informal measures for assessing speech impairment in children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(3), 296-311.
• McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L., & McCormack, J. (2013, in press). Speech sound disorders in a community study of preschool children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0123)
• McCormack, J., McAllister, L., McLeod, S., & Harrison, L. J. (2012). Knowing, having, doing: The battles of childhood speech impairment. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 28, 141-157.
• McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J. & McCormack, J.  (2012). Intelligibility in Context Scale: Validity and reliability of a subjective rating measure. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 648-656.
• Toohill, B., McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (2012). Effect of dialect on identification and severity of speech impairment in Indigenous Australian children, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 26(2), 101-119. DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2011.595523
• McCormack, J., Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S., & McAllister, L. (2011). A nationally representative study of the association between communication impairment at 4–5 years and children’s life activities at 7–9 years. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54(5), 1328-1348.
• McAllister, L., McCormack, J., McLeod, S., & Harrison, L. J. (2011). Expectations and experiences of accessing and engaging in services for speech impairment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13(3), 251-267.
• McCormack, J., McLeod, S., McAllister, L., & Harrison, L. J. (2010). My speech problem, your listening problem, and my frustration: The experience of living with childhood speech impairment.  Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 41, 379–392. 
• McCormack, J., McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., & McAllister, L. (2010). The impact of speech impairment in early childhood: Investigating parents' and speech-language pathologists' perspectives using the ICF-CY. Journal of Communication Disorders, 43(5), 378-396.
• McCormack, J., McLeod, S., Harrison, L. J., McAllister, L., & Holliday, E. L. (2010). A different view of talking: How children with speech impairment picture their speech. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 12(1), 10-15.
• McCormack, J., McLeod, S., McAllister, L., & Harrison, L. J. (2009). A systematic review of the association between childhood speech impairment and participation across the lifespan. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11(2), 155-170.
• McCormack, J., & Worrall, L. (2008). Body Functions and Structures related to communication and swallowing disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10(1-2), 9-17.
• McCormack, J. (2007). Communication impairment in Australian children: A review of prevalence studies. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 9(3), 95-98.
• McLeod, S., & McCormack, J. (2007). Application of the ICF and ICF-Children and Youth in children with speech impairment. Seminars in Speech and Language, 28(4), 254-264.
  
  

Community Engagement

Jane is currently the co-editor of Speech Pathology Australia’s (SPA) national clinical journal, the Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology (JCPSLP), and have previously been a guest editor of the national research journal, the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (IJSLP) (Volume 14, Issue 3, 2012). She has reviewed papers for the SPA national conference and the National Grants Program. Jane also regularly reviews papers for national and international speech pathology and education journals including Disability and Rehabilitation, the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, and the International Journal of Early Childhood.

Memberships and Affiliations

• Certified Practicing Member of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA)
• Member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
• Member of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)
• Member of the Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE, CSU)
• Member of the Excellence in Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network (CSU, QUT, Monash)