2024 Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention
Friday, December 6, 2024
Seattle, Washington
The Research Symposium is an annual event at ASHA's Convention where clinicians and researchers discuss current research in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). Each year's symposium has a specific research theme.
Find out more about the Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention and its associated travel award.
Genetics in CSD
The 2024 Symposium will be part of the ASHA Convention. Any in-person Convention registrant may attend. No separate ticket or registration is required.
Coordinated by Beate Peter, PhD, CCC-SLP (Arizona State University), the Symposium will focus on the role of genetics in a diverse range of communication abilities and disabilities. Speakers will discuss how DNA variations and environmental factors interact, the role of genes in brain development, how best to unravel complex gene–environment–brain–phenotype associations, and ways to translate some of these insights into new approaches to clinical management.
8:00 AM
Update on Phenotypes and Genotypes for Studies of Speech Sound Disorders
Speakers: Barbara A. Lewis, PhD, CCC-SLP and Sudha K. Iyengar, PhD (Case Western Reserve University)
9:30 AM
Molecular and Neuronal Pathways Implicated by Stuttering Genetics and Their Broader Clinical Consequences
Speakers: Jennifer E. Below, PhD, (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and Shelly Jo Kraft, PhD (Wayne State University)
12:00 PM
Can Genetics Help Identify Specific Reading Disabilities?
Speaker: Elena L. Grigorenko, PhD (University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine)
1:30 PM
Using Genetics to Uncover the Biological Substrates of Spoken and Written Language
Speaker: Simon Fisher, DPhil (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)
3:30 PM
Translating the Power of Precision Medicine into the World of Communication Disorders Speaker: Beate Peter, PhD, CCC-SLP (Arizona State University)
The Research Symposium at ASHA Convention is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
