This international conference will provide opportunities for professionals, students, and academicians to interact in all aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of speech, language and hearing disorders. Tke China International Conference on Speech Therapy will include presentation and poster sessions. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

• aphasia
• apraxia
• augmentative communication
• autism
• child language disorders
• chinese medicine
• cognitive disorders
• curriculum for preparation of speech-language pathologists
• dementia
• dysarthria
• dysphagia
• hearing impaired
• oral-facial disorders
• rehabilitation of deaf children
• speech disorders
• stuttering
• voice disorders

Submission Procedure

Submissions require identifying information, and an abstract. If your submission is accepted, the identifying information and abstract will be published in the conference program as is. Full length papers may be submitted for publication in the proceedings of the conference.

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The following sections must be completed for your submission to be accepted:

1 - Identifying Information

• Presentation title
• Names of all authors with affiliations
• Contact person
• Contact's address
• Contact's telephone numbers
• Contact's email address

2 -Abstract

• 300 word single-spaced abstract which consists of a concise summary of the clinical presentation (narrative description of goals and objectives, overview of the information to be presented) or research presentation (rationale, methods, results, and conclusions).

3 -Full Length Paper

• Submission of full length papers is not required for participation and presentation of papers in the conference. However, participants may submit full length papers to be published in the proceedings of the conference. Participants submitting a full length paper must certify that the manuscript has not been published in a journal or is not under review for publication. Full length papers should not exceed 3,000 words and include: 1) purpose of the research 2) methods, 3) results, and 4) conclusions.

Submission Deadline: December 12, 2008

Submission Address:

Communication Sciences & Disorders - CICST
University of Minnesota Duluth
1207 Ordean Court
221 Bohannon Hall
Duluth, MN 55812