April 30th, 2024 8:00 am to 7:00 pm (PST)
Central Region
East Region
Hotel Room Block JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa
74-855 Country Club Drive Palm Desert, CA 92260
8:00 am: Check-in/Registration/Breakfast at BIGHORN Golf Club
10:00 am – 3:00 pm: Spa Treatments at JW Marriott Palm Desert Resort and Spa
Or
10:30 am: Tee Off
3:30 pm: Cocktail Reception
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Dinner/Awards Reception
Event Contact: Tara Barbarino Ph: 516.906.6161
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia will be hosted by the University of Reading, Whitenights campus, UK. The on-campus conference venues will be the Palmer Building on the 21st and 22nd of October (Saturday and Sunday) and the Meadow Suite in the historic Park House on the 23rd of October (Monday). Saturday’s opening night reception will take place at the Museum of English Rural Life, which explores the history of the English countryside and its people. We encourage onsite attendance, although we also offer the option to participate online via an interactive hybrid platform.
We are very enthusiastic about this year’s program, which includes keynote presentations by Prof. Sophie Scott of University College London (UCL) and Dr. Sudha Seshadri of the University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio. The program also features eight, thematically organized platform sessions, and an interactive lunchtime panel discussion entitled Equity in Science. Across the eight platform sessions, two symposia and one mini-workshop are incorporated. The program also affords dedicated time slots for each of three in-person poster presentation sessions and for each of two virtual poster presentation sessions.
For the full conference program, click here.
For presenter instructions, including guidelines for poster upload and required advance submission of platform presentation slides, click here.
If you are registered to participate in-person, you are advised to bring your laptop with you to Reading (or to pair with a registered colleague who has one), so you can log in to participate maximally within and through the interactive hybrid conference platform.
Registration Period2 | ||||
Registration Type1 | Attendee Status | Early (through September 19, 2023) | Regular (September 20, 2023 – September 30, 2023) | Late (after September 30, 2023) |
In-Person | Faculty/clinician, AoA member | $400.00 | $500.00 | $550.00 |
Faculty/clinician, non-member | $525.00 | $625.00 | $675.00 | |
Student/postdoc, AoA member | $225.00 | $275.00 | $325.00 | |
Student/postdoc, non-member | $350.00 | $400.00 | $450.00 | |
In-person, single day | Faculty/clinician, AoA member | $175.00 | $200.00 | $250.00 |
Faculty/clinician, non-member | $300.00 | $325.00 | $375.00 | |
Student/postdoc, AoA member | $75.00 | $100.00 | $150.00 | |
Student/postdoc, non-member | $200.00 | $225.00 | $275.00 | |
Virtual | Faculty/clinician, AoA member | $175.00 | $200.00 | $250.00 |
Faculty/clinician, non-member | $300.00 | $325.00 | $375.00 | |
Student/postdoc, AoA member | $75.00 | $100.00 | $150.00 | |
Student/postdoc, non-member | $200.00 | $225.00 | $275.00 | |
LMIC3 |
Faculty/clinician | $40.00 | $65.00 | $115.00 |
Student/postdoc | $20.00 | $45.00 | $95.00 |
A PDF compilation of abstracts is available to all registered conference participants within the hybrid conference platform, upon login.
HPI Title Sponsor Hall
Gold Sponsors Hall
Summit Vendor Hall
Consumer Roadshow Hall
SYNNEX Hall
Conference registration will open by mid-August 2023. In the meantime, if you would like to receive a courtesy list of local childcare providers that you may solicit at your own expense, please contact academyofaphasia.program@gmail.com. In 2023, we will provide a $100 registration credit for people who choose to find childcare options during the conference. Proof of receipt of childcare services will be required.
Registered conference participants will have access to all conference resources via this link. Conference registration will open by August 1, 2023.
The full conference program will be posted to the conference landing page in August 2023.
The program committee will review abstract submissions and send notification of acceptance status by 18 July 2023. Presentation instructions will be posted in this location in July 2023, for each author whose abstract submission has been accepted for presentation.
STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS COMING SOON!