2013 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
November 14–16, 2013 Chicago, Illinois
The ASHA Convention is the premier annual professional education event for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Bringing together more than 12,000 attendees, the Convention provides unparalleled opportunities to hear the latest evidence-based research and gain new skills and resources to advance your career.
Academy of Doctors of Audiology 2013 Convention
November 7-9, 2013 Bonita Springs, Florida
Atypical Interaction: Conversation Analysis and Communication Impairments
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom- Thursday 27th and Friday 28th June 2013
This conference aims to advance research which uses Conversation Analysis to investigate naturally-occurring social interactions involving one or more participants with a communication impairment.
Conversation Analysis (CA), which examines the moment-by-moment organization of social interaction, and which developed in the context of researching everyday talk, has proven to be a fruitful methodology for the analysis of interactions involving participants with communication impairments. It has provided new perspectives on the nature of these impairments and how they impact on everyday talk and social identity, and has also been used as the basis for implementing and evaluating intervention programmes which have been used by clinical practitioners such as speech and language therapists.
A particular strength of CA is its capacity to examine what actually takes place in interaction and to focus on the part played by all participants. Moreover, in examining the full range of interaction resources that participants utilize, such as gesture (including eye gaze and body movement) and the use of objects, as well as spoken language, CA has the potential to examine the diverse ways in which communication can be accomplished despite the communication impairments. In addition, the analysis of interactions involving persons with a challenged capacity to communicate raises fundamental questions that are relevant for our understanding of human interaction and intersubjectivity.
This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss new findings, methodological innovations and practical applications in this growing area of applied CA work.
The conference will include empirical papers, data sessions where conference participants can analyze recordings of communication impairment interactions, and a round table discussion. We hope the conference will be of interest to people from a wide range of academic backgrounds (including speech and language pathology/therapy, audiology, linguistics, psychology, and sociology) and practitioners (including those from speech and language pathology/therapy, audiology, education and clinical rehabilitation).
Ray Wilkinson (University of Sheffield) and John Rae (University of Roehampton), Conference Organizers
Hearing Loss Association of America Convention 2013
June 27-30, 2013 Portland, Oregon
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
