American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention 2021

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention is on this week in Washington, DC. I am disappointed that I am unable to be in Washington to catch up with my colleagues from across the world. I really miss the networking and face-to-face interactions. There are over 10,000 attendees (5,200 onsite and 5,200 virtual). There are over 660 sessions and 1000 posters across 31 topic areas.

I stayed up until 12:30am to watch Lynn Williams, President of ASHA open the convention. 

 During the convention, my colleagues and I are presenting the following papers and posters virtually. 

1. McLeod, S. (2021). Evidence-based resources for working with children with speech sound disorders [Invited 1-hour oral presentation]. 
2. McLeod, S., Williams, A. L., McCauley, R. J., Baker, E., Ballard, K., Bernhardt, B. M., Camarata, S., Cleland, J., Hayden, D., Morrisette, M., Pennington, L., Leece, M., Pezas, R., Scherer, N., Strand, E., Tyler, A., Williams, P., Wren, Y., Preston, J. (2021). Twenty interventions for speech sound disorders: A guide for selection and implementation [1-hour oral presentation]. 
3. Wren, Y., Davies, A., Seifert, M., Harding, S. & McLeod, S. (2021). Intelligibility in 3-year-olds with cleft lip and/or palate: findings from the cleft collective study [Oral presentation]. 
4. McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Margetson, K., Wang, C., Tran, V. H., White, K,, Pham, B. (2021). Children’s speech acquisition in a 3-generation Vietnamese-English bilingual family [Virtual poster presentation]. 
5. Hopf, S. C., Crowe, K., Verdon, S., Blake, H. L. & McLeod, S. (2021). Culturally Responsive Teamwork: A framework to advance workplace diversity [Virtual poster presentation]. ***Awarded Meritorious Poster Submission (from over 1200+ posters) https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2021/10/award-2021-asha-convention-meritorious.html

There have been a lot of people who have already viewed our presentations via the Virtual Library platform and many people have sent emails indicating that they have learned from the presentations and have asked for copies of the slides. This is great - but it is not the same as having conversations with these people. I hope I can attend next year.