February 22, 2018

Special issue of IJSLP celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights published TODAY

The special issue of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was published TODAY as Volume 20, issue 1, 2018. It contains 31 papers that are available as open access (for free) and can be accessed via either of these links http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/iasl20/20/1 bit.ly/IJSLP-UDHR 

The CSU news release is here: http://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/education/teacher-education/communication-is-a-human-right

We celebrated the launch today at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/communication-is-a-human-right-celebrating-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-universal-declaration-of-tickets-42303600207

Additional presentations have been/are being planned in Sydney, Albury, Adelaide, Bathurst, Malta, New York and Boston.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. (Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, 1948) 

There has been a lot of attention on Twitter throughout the day: #SpeakUp4CommRights @IJSLP @SpPathAust @UNHumanRights #StandUp4HumanRights