International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) World Congress in Taiwan

This week (18-22 August, 2019) is the 31st World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) in Taipei, Taiwan (http://www.ialptaipei2019.org/). IALP is auspiced by the World Health Organization, and most professional associations across the world that are associated with speech, language and hearing attend. The 2019 Congress has been attended by 961 delegates from 46 countries. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of IALP.

I am the deputy chair of the IALP Child Speech committee. Dr Yvonne Wren, the chair, is unable to attend, so I have chaired our tri-annual meeting, and presented and chaired sessions on behalf of the committee. I also represented Speech Pathology Australia in the voting during the General Assembly.

Our Speech-Language-Multilingualism team are presenting the following papers:

1. Cronin, A., McLeod, S. & Verdon, S. (2019, August). Holistic assessment of young children with cleft lip and palate using the ICF-CY 
2. McLeod, S. (2019) Transcription of adults’ and children’s speech when you don’t speak their language 
3. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Wang, C., & Tran, V. H. (2019) Factors supporting language maintenance amongst the Vietnamese community in Australia 
4. Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019, August) Assessing Vietnamese children's intelligibility and speech sounds 
5. Pham, B. & McLeod, S. (2019, August) Transcription of tone. 
6. Wren, Y. (presented by S. McLeod) Place of automatic speech recognition for assessing speech disorders. 
7. Tran, V. H., Verdon, S., McLeod, S., & Wang, C. (2019, August). Maintaining children’s home languages to support communicative participation (URL below)
8. http://miceposter.com/poster/display_poster/710

IALP group photo (sourced from IALP's Facebook page)
More IALP photos are here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/IALP-Taipei-2019-1378164912312556/photos/?ref=page_internal

The conference venue (left) near the East Gate (right)

IALP Child Speech Committee Meeting (Susan Rvachew, Helen Grech, Sharynne McLeod, Sarah and Sadie Verdon) (unfortunately 8 members of our committee were unable to attend)

Belinda Hill (Vice President, Speech Pathology Australia) bearing the Australian flag at the opening flag ceremony

Australians at IALP in Taiwan

Sadie and Ben Pham