Best Practices in Public School
Speech-Language Pathology Conference
March 3-4, 2016
Cobb Galleria Center, Atlanta, Georgia
CALL FOR POSTER SESSIONS
The Georgia Organization of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists invite
you to submit a proposal for a Poster presentation at the Best Practices in Public
School Speech-Language Pathology Conference. The poster sessions will be held
on March 3rd, 2016, from 1:00 – 3:30 PM.
The Poster Sessions will have two focus areas: 1. Presentations which provide
strategies for therapy for school-age children using an evidence-based foundation
and 2. Presentations which provide research on therapy and/or assessment
procedures for school-age children. Practicing SLPs in the schools as well as
university professors and students are encouraged to submit a proposal.
Therapy topics with an evidence-based foundation: Abstracts should describe
the strategy, research supporting it, the setting in which it was used, the
characteristics of the target students, how the strategy was evaluated and any
unique findings/characteristics of the strategy.
Research on therapy/assessment for school-age children: Abstracts should
describe the author’s research methodology (i.e. design, subject characteristics,
and statistical analysis), the major findings, and the conclusions.
Why present at the Poster Sessions?
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Share your therapy ideas on what works well with your fellow SLPs
Personally contribute to our knowledge base
Promote research for school-age children with speech-language disorders
Promote participation by universities and students to share research
Students will receive free registration for the conference for their accepted Poster
Session. GO SSLP members will receive a gift card for their participation in the poster
session.
The Poster Sessions are intended to be casual and conversational - a formal
presentation is not required. You may provide handouts (at your own expense).
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Poster Sessions Application For the GO SSLP Best Practices Conference March, 2016:
Primary Presenter Name:
School District or University or Employer:
Title (i.e. SLP [include credentials], professor, graduate student, undergraduate student, etc.):
Street Address:
City/Country/Zip code:
E-mail:
Are you a GO SSLP Member? ___yes ___no
Co-Presenter(s) Name, title and email address:
Is Co-Presenter(s) a GO SSLP Member? ___yes ___no
Poster Title:
The Poster sessions on March 3rd, 2016 start at 1:00 and end at 3:30. You will receive more information
about your individual start and end time for the session. Please plan on being at the session 30
minutes before the start time to set up.
Briefly describe your topic or research-based project in an abstract of 200 words or less in the box
below (refer to description on the first page for abstract guidelines).
Check type of poster session:
____ Therapy topic based upon evidence-based practice
____Research on therapy/assessment
List Learner Outcome(s):
Brief biographical sketch for each presenter:
Submission Information: Please send application to tori@jlh-consulting.com by January 22nd, 2016 .
Applicants will be notified of selection as soon as possible, but no later than February 5th, 2016.
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Poster Sessions that are accepted will have abstracts published in the Program. Your
presentation must not be altered from the submitted abstract.
We will send you a Disclosure Statement that must be completed and sent to us according to
ASHA CEU guidelines.
You must register for the conference. Students will receive additional information on how to
register for the conference once accepted.
Additional information on set up will be sent to you once your poster session is accepted.