(Nashville, TN - November 12, 2007) Edward G. Conture, PhD, professor and director of graduate studies at Vanderbilt University's Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, will receive the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Honors of the Association award during the 2007 Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), November 15-17 in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Honors of the Association recognizes distinguished contribution to the field of speech, language, and hearing and is the highest honor the Association can give. Honored individuals have made outstanding contributions to the discipline of communication science and disorders, research, administration, or service to state or national organizations.
Dr. Conture's groundbreaking research on childhood stuttering, continuously funded by NIH and other organizations for more than three decades, has moved the discipline of stuttering research and practice from a strictly motor approach and philosophy to a language-based phenomena, altering the management protocols used with adults and children. Dr. Conture's work regarding the emotional contributions to childhood stuttering has helped make this area an issue worthy of legitimate empirical investigation. At Vanderbilt since 1997, he has been a visiting clinician or researcher in Canada, Australia, and The Netherlands.
The annual ASHA convention is the most comprehensive development conference for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language and hearing scientists. It features more than 1,500 educational sessions that highlight the latest developments in research and clinical practices for professionals who provide services in schools, hospitals, health care centers, rehabilitation clinics, and other practice settings.
Nearly 300 exhibitors, including hearing aid manufacturers and other companies in the speech and hearing industries, will showcase innovative products and services in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center's exhibit hall. Technology presentations on products, such as computer software programs as well as alternative and augmentative communication and assistive listening devices were also featured.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders.
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