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Thursday, January 30, 2025

7:30-8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 AMOpening Welcome and Introductions
8:45-10:45 AM
Keynote Address  (Session 1)

Kia Noella Johnson
Understanding the Power of Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, & Privilege on Your Road Towards Cultural Humility

10:45-11:00 AMBreak
11:00-12:00 PMSession 2

Tiana Cowan
Natalie Mason
The Converging Evidence Framework: How to Use Multiple Pieces of Diagnostic Data to Reduce Bias in Language Evaluations for Dual Language Learners

12:00 PM-1:00 PMLunch
1:00-2:00 PMSession 3

Kia Noelle Johnson
Mitigating Fluency Conformity by Championing Evidence-based CARE

2:00-2:15 PM Break
2:15-3:15 PMSession 4

Lisa Goffman
Motor, language, and speech deficits in developmental language disorder, speech sound disorder, and childhood apraxia of speech

3:15-3:30 PMClosing Remarks

Friday, January 31, 2025

8:00-8:30 AM
Breakfast

8:30-8:45 AM
Opening Remarks

8:45-10:45 AM
Keynote Address  (Session 5)

Karla McGregor
Clinical Considerations for Individuals with Developmental Language Disorder

10:45-11:00 AMBreak
11:00-12:00 PMSession 6

Krystal Werfel
Supporting Personal Narrative Production in Preschoolers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

12:00 PM-1:00 PMLunch
1:00-2:00 PMSession 7

Scott Busteed
Supervision in Speech-Language Pathology

2:00-2:15 PM Break
2:15-3:15 PMSession 8
Ethics Panel

Abby Bogatz
Allyssa LaRose
Kate Shuster
Benjamin Harder
Amy Tyler Krings

3:15-3:30 PMClosing Remarks

*** This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Please check back closer to the conference date for the finalized schedule.