Benchmarking impact: Evaluating oral narratives with a new clinical tool 

Abbey Chalker, Rebecca Kreuger, Amy Southwood, Melba Ridd, Marleen Westerveld. Clinical skills session presented at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference "Impact through speech pathology". Yugambeh/Gold Coast, 26 June 2026. Handout materials are available - note that this is not the final version of the rubric! 

Westerveld, M., Peach, J., Heilmann, J., & Malone, T. (2017). Exploring the links between verbal working memory, personality traits, and the ability to produce persuasive discourse in high school students. Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Australia Annual Conference: WIFI, Sydney, Australia. Australia. Here are the slides.

Heilmann, J., Malone, T., Andriacchi, K., & Westerveld, M. (2015). Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking: Persuasive Discourse of High School Students. Paper presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association, Denver, Colorado. Slides

Westerveld, M. F., & Vidler, K. (2014). Effects of examiner behaviour on children’s spoken language production in conversation. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Orlando, FL.