Prosody in Typical and Atypical Populations
3rd-4th September 2012, University of Reading, United Kingdom
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and speech and language therapists to share thoughts, ideas, and research findings on issues related to the acquisition of prosody and prosody disorders in children and adults.
Contact us
Email: pcls@reading.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8135
Fax: +44 (0)118 378 4693
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
11th Asia Pacific Congress on Deafness
26th-28th July 2012 Singapore
Target Audience: ENT surgeons, Audiologists, Speech Language Therapists, Deaf Educators.
The 11th Asia Pacific Congress on Deafness 2012 will he held 26-28 July 2012 (www.apcd2012.com) for the first time in Singapore. This 11th APCD 2012 will be held in conjunction with the 6th National University Singapore – National University Hospital ENT Conference.
The theme will be "Changing Perceptions, Increasing Effectiveness, Embracing Advocacy". We are engaging multi-organizational professionals and the community to collectively work towards:
(1) Changing negative perceptions and stereotypes which deter individuals from seeking professional help and integrating more fully into the community (2) Addressing current challenges and setting future directions to increase the effectiveness of medical-surgical, audiological and educational services (3) Engaging policy makers, encouraging advocacy and ensuring community support for the community with hearing impairment.
We are planning for over 600 attendees from the Asia Pacific region mainly and renowned faculty worldwide. We warmly invite participation from all professionals and industry partners with an interest in Deafness and hearing-related disorders. This congress will include focuses that are often under-addressed. The tsunami of elderly hearing loss in our rapidly graying populations worldwide. Noise-induced deafness, Auditory Processing Disorders in both children and adults, Vestibular Balance Disorders and Tinnitus. Whilst celebrating the rapid advances in hearing devices and hearing implants, we want to practice evidence-based and cost-effective medicine. Technology to improve the listening environments in public and private spaces can be improved. Education and rehabilitation therapy must be individualized yet comprehensive, and adapt to advances in treatments and local challenges.
More professionals need to be trained to cope with the burgeoning demand. In collaboration, governmental, non-governmental organizations and individuals can improve the care for families and patients in schools, workplaces and at home. Working closely together with policy makers, we can integrate and improve the overall quality of hearing healthcare.
The congress is intended to be a forum for us all to meet up again, exchange ideas and initiate future collaborations. The social and public awareness events will be fruitful and enjoyable.
Fourteenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
ASSETS 2012 will be held in Boulder, Colorado, USA (October 22-24, 2012)
The ASSETS conference explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. ASSETS is the premier forum for presenting innovative research on mainstream and specialized assistive technologies, accessible computing, and assistive applications of computer, network, and information technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of:
Individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments
Individuals with motor impairments
Individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments
Individuals with multiple impairments
Older adults with diverse capabilities
Professionals who work with these populations
Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2012)
The workshop will be held on July, 12th at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, July 8-14, 2012
SMIAE is sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT)
In recent years considerable progress has been made in speech processing and interaction as well as in multimodality. However, the application field of Assistive Environments has only recently become a focus for the speech and multimodality research community.
This workshop will focus on issues, applications, and development tools in the field of Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE). It will be concerned with all topics which fit within the purview of speech and multimodal communication in environments suitable for the elderly and people with age-related physical or cognitive disabilities. Assistive environments are an application area of the research field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL).
This research field is supported through a European technology and innovation funding programme, which promotes intelligent assistant systems for a better, healthier, and safer life in the preferred living environments through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Human-computer and human-robot interaction are key technological tools in the area of Assistive Environments, and as such the workshop will particularly aim to draw together speech and multimodal work in these areas. Moreover, both theoretical and applied computational work regarding multimodal interaction in assistive environments will be welcome at this workshop.
Topics of Interest
Speech-enabled systems in assisted living environments
Speech in interaction with gesture and other modalities in assistive environments
Speech and multimodality in assistive robotics
Control of smart devices through speech and multimodal approaches
Speech/Text-to Speech software in Web applications designed for the elderly
Speech and multimodal interaction in e-Government and e-Health in assistive environments
Communication in assistive environments (e.g. Peer-to-Peer)
Talking agents in assistive environments
Multimodal ICT used in elder care
Invited speaker:
Mikio Nagano: "Robots that can learn new words and their grounded meanings through dialogues"
Contact
For any questions, feedback or comments, feel free to contact the organization committee:
e-mail: smiae2012@informatik.uni-bremen.de
Tel: 0049-163-7435527
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!
Assistive Technology Industry Association 2013 Orlando Conference
January 30 – February 2, 2013 Orlando, Florida
Save the date for next year's conference, ATIA 2013 Orlando!
Audio Engineering Society 47th Conference on Music Induced Hearing Disorders--New Technologies for Measurement and Protection
June 20-22, 2012 Chicago, Illlinois
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) will its hold its AES 47th Conference on Music Induced Hearing Disorders in Chicago, June 20 - 22nd, 2012, at Columbia College.
The theme for the 2012 event is “New Technologies for Measurement and Protection.” With the advent and omnipresence of portable listening devices and louder sound systems for live sound reproduction, the interest in music-induced hearing disorders and their measurement and prevention is now global. The conference will provide attendees with a detailed understanding of state–of-the-art hearing loss prevention strategies and devices as they relate to music production and reproduction.
Proposed topics include:
Standards and Guidelines for Hearing Exposure and Hearing Protection
Active and Passive Hearing Protection Devices
Hearing Exposure Measurement and Control Devices
Technologies for Monitoring and Controlling Consumer Audio Devices
Sound Level Management for Live Sound Events
Medical Therapies and Procedures for Hearing Exposure Protection and Hearing Loss Regeneration
Electroacoustic Technologies to Prevent and Cope with Hearing Disorders (e.g.Tinnitus)
Electronic Devices (e.g. Hearing Aids) for Hearing Impaired Musicians and Sound Production Engineers
Technologies for Producing Multimedia Content for the Hearing Impaired
Audio Engineering Society, Inc.
International Headquarters
60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520
New York, New York Internet: http://www.aes.org
10165-2520
Tel: +1 212 661 8528
Fax: +1 212 682 0477
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 2012 Convention
AG Bell 2012 Biennial Convention: June 28–July 2, 2012 Scottsdale, Arizona
Convention Highlights:
Keynote address by Dr. Dale Atkins, a psychologist, former teacher of the deaf, author and frequent contributor to NBC-TV’s “Today Show” whose focus is on living a balanced life
80+ education sessions for professionals, families and adults with hearing loss
Parent programs and networking opportunities
Children’s program
NIH-funded Research Symposium
Exhibit hall with the latest technology and education information
Exciting social events for all ages
CEU opportunities
Who Should Attend:
Families raising children with hearing loss
Adults who are deaf and hard of hearing
Listening and Spoken Language Specialists
Teachers of the deaf
Speech-language pathologists
Audiologists
Students in speech-language pathology, audiology and deaf education
8th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics
July 3-4, 2012 Erlangen – Germany
The conference will be held at the Hotel Novotel Erlangen and it is hosted by the DFG Research Unit FOR894. It will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of current scientific research on the larynx and voice. The emphasis of this conference will be on basic and applied research rather than clinical treatment studies.
We encourage investigators working in the following areas/ themes to attend the conference:
Topics for Contributions to the ICVPB Conference are:
Acoustics
Aerodynamics
Anatomy
Bio-acoustics
Biomechanics
Laryngeal pathologies
Modeling
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Neurophysiology
Physics
Physiology
Tissue Engineering
In this conference, we especially encourage studies related to the "Voice Source Analysis" as indicated by the subtitle of the conference to promote a wide spectrum research on phonation-related transglottal airflow and vocal fold vibration.
General Chairmen:
Professor Ulrich Eysholdt - University Hospital Erlangen
Professor Michael Döllinger - University Hospital Erlangen
Any Questions? Contact: Ute.Katz@uk-erlangen.de
