Asia Pacific International Conference on Speech, Language, and Hearing

Holly McAlister and Sarah Verdon have just returned from presenting papers at the 12th Asia Pacific International Conference on Speech, Language, and Hearing held at the Grand Richmond Stylish Convention Hotel, Bangkok - Nonthaburi, Thailand from December 12–14, 2025. 

Congratulations Holly on presenting your PhD research - and making some good contacts within our region

Presentations at the Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing Online Symposium

This year we have three presentations at the Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing Online Symposium. https://sites.google.com/view/apsslhsym2022/home

The symposium is presented in association with the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST) and Thai Speech-Language and Hearing Association (TSHA).  

Presentation 1: VietSpeech: Learning about bilingual speech acquisition and language maintenance from a large-scale Australian study

Sharynne McLeod, Sarah Verdon, Kate Margetson, Van Tran, Cen Wang, Ben Pham

View the presentation here

Presentation 2:  Considering dialect for speech sound disorder diagnosis: A Fiji English case study

Holly McAlister, Suzanne C. Hopf, Sharynne McLeod

View the presentation here

Presentation 3: Predicting who will normalize without intervention for speech sound disorders. 

Carol K. S. To, Sharynne McLeod, Sam Ka Lam Sam, Thomas Law 

 

Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing Executive Meeting

Today the executive of the Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing met to discuss many issues including a new website and the forthcoming conference in South Korea in 2023. Manwa (Lawrence) Ng from Hong Kong SAR China is the outgoing president and Sue Ann Lee from USA is the incoming president for 2022.

APSSLH Executive Council Members Meeting

Today I attended the APSSLH Executive Council Members Meeting. We discussed issues including the delay of our conference that was to be held in Hong Kong (due to COVID-19). The last conference was held in Japan in 2017. We also discussed changes to committee members' terms of office that are linked to the conference dates. The current committee members are below:

The timezones for our meeting were:

Some of the timezones for the APSSLH Meeting (+ New Zealand)

Executive Council Member of Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing

Today I received an invitation from Professor Manwa Lawrence Ng, and I have formally accepted the role of being an Executive Council Member (Publications Committee), Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language and Hearing. The Speech, Language and Hearing journal is supported by this society and I am a board member of this journal.
Last year I attended and presented at the APSSLH conference in Narita, Japan.