Recently we have found out that all of our abstracts for the upcoming ASHA convention have been accepted. This is great news as there were 3,265 papers submitted (>8% more than last year). ASHA are anticipating that the 2016 convention in Philadelphia "will break the Chicago attendance records – topping 15,000 attendees"* Here are the previously highest attended ASHA conventions:
Top attendance
2013 - Chicago - 14,794
2015 - Denver - 14,059
1997 - Boston - 13,532
2010 - Philadelphia - 13,210
1988 - Boston - 13,010
1994 - New Orleans - 12,954
2014 - Orlando - 12,359
2008 - Chicago - 12,031
*Jaynee Handelsman, President, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1 August 2016
