A yearly event at the ASHA Convention is the Research Symposium, where current, theme-focused research is presented by experts.
The Genetic Basis of Speech, Language, Reading, Learning and Memory
Introduction of Symposium & Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Awardees
Margaret Rogers, PhD, Chief Staff Officer for Science and Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, Maryland
Growth Signaling Functions in Language Development of Children with Specific Language Impairment
Mabel Rice, PhD, Fred & Virginia Merrill Distinguished Professor of Advanced Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Learning and Memory
David Sweatt, PhD, Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Molecular Mechanisms of Speech Development and the Genetics of Dyslexia
Approaching Molecular Mechanisms of Speech and Language Development
Matthias Groszer, MD, Institut du Fer a Moulin, Universite Paris Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
Recent Advances in the Genetics of Dyslexia-Related Phenotypes
Silvia Paracchini, PhD, Royal Society University, Research Fellow, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Genetic Influences on Reading Disability and Language Impairments
Shelley Smith, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Developmental Neuroscience Department at the Munroe Meyer Institute and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska