Communication Sciences and Disorders meetings & conferences

American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association 2013 Conference

May 29 – June 1, 2013 Bloomington, Minnesota

Goal of the Conference

The American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) is pleased to announce the 2013 ADARA Conference, a national conference to be hosted in Minnesota. Our conference theme is “Blazing New Trails” which refers to “doing something different,” “doing early or pioneering work that others will follow up on,” and “doing something that no one has done before, especially something important for other people.”

This conference seeks to provide training and networking opportunities for mental health professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, independent living service providers, educators, interpreters, transition specialists, community-based rehabilitation providers, and any support staff in the helping professions.

Possible Areas and Topics

• Interfacing education and mental health
• Working with trilingual families
• Testing demonstrations
• Olmstead, recovery, peer support
• Supporting community living options
• Drug/alcohol abuse treatment strategies
• Trauma informed care
• Working with low functioning/language dysfluent consumers
• Developing cultural competency
• Therapeutic techniques/theories & effective counseling techniques & strategies (e.g., EMDR, DBT)
• Mental health/chemical dependency interpreting

• Deaf/Hard of Hearing cross-cultural conflicts
• Professional management
• Public policy
• Using technology in therapeutic settings
• Navigating the new health care environment
• Client-centered approaches/ Early interventions
• Career assessments
• Residential programming
• Levels of care: residential, outpatient, intensive, group homes
• Job coaching/Job placement
• Transition
• Autism
• Vocational evaluations
• Work adjustment

ICare4Autism International Autism Conference

August 1-2, 2012

Autism: A Global Perspective at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem, Israel

Following the overwhelming success of the past conferences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC in 2011 and in Jerusalem, Israel in 2010, ICare4Autism is once again bringing together top leading medical and educational professionals and researchers working in autism.

The purpose of the ICare4Autism conferences are to share current groundbreaking research into the causes and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders, and to be a catalyst for powerful interdisciplinary collaborations to tackle the global autism crisis.

The conference will be in 3 tracks as follows:

Bio-Medical Research and Practice

Education-Behavioral Research and Practice

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Policy and Awareness

2012 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention

November 15–17, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia

The ASHA Convention is the premier annual event for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Join more than 12,000 of your peers for this once-a-year opportunity at the Georgia World Congress Center from November 15–17, 2012 as we celebrate our 2012 theme, Evidence of Excellence: Opportunities and Outcomes!

XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

June 7 - 9, 2012 Minneapolis, Minnesota

On behalf of the International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), we cordially invite your participation in the XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies. This conference provides a venue for the dissemination of premiere developmental science, focusing on human and non-human infancy research, and the exchange of ideas among researchers from all corners of the world.

The Society organizes a scientific conference every two years. The conference serves as a venue for the latest research findings on applied and basic aspects of infant development. Some of the substantive areas of research represented at each conference include the development of sensation, perception, cognition, emotion, language, and social behavior. The conference includes invited and investigator-initiated symposia, lectures, and poster presentations.

International Forum on Disability Management 2012

6th International Forum on Disability Management (IFDM 2012)

10-12 September 2012 London, England, United Kingdom

In the late 1990s a group of people who were committed to the ideals of best practice in disability management met in Ottawa. From that meeting came the agreement to collaborate on an International Forum to be held every two years in major locations throughout the world, with a focus on research and practice in the field of disability management. Each meeting would attract senior political representatives, and senior executives from government, labour and industry, to speak on the achievements and challenges in that country's efforts to address these problems.

The conference aims to gather representatives and stakeholders in disability management from all over the world, to assemble global perspectives on consensus-based best practices, cutting-edge research and successful disability management policies and programs. Disability management refers to the actions of the health and rehabilitation community to restore those disabled by injury or illness, to health and productivity.

Key sessions include:

Transformation - lessons from sports medicine
The role of the State
Transforming models of disability
Work and employers issues
Disability management in practice