Speech and Language Therapy Across the Age Span. 8th Congress of Baltic States SLTs. Book of Abstracts
Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2022
Anotation
All three Baltic States associations of speech and language therapists’ (Lithuanian and Latvian Logopedists’ Associations, Estonian Union of Logopedists’) are members of European Speech and Language Therapy Association (ESLA), which inspires Baltic countries for the following the European values and recommendations for the speech and language therapy profession and education. It also creates the possibility to learn from different practices and get together for new developments of the profession. The most visible outcome of this collaborative practice – is the tradition of organisation of Joint Congresses of Baltic States SLTs’. The topic of the 2022 year Speech and Language Therapy across the Age Span is confirmed as relevant by European Speech and Language Therapy Association (ESLA) to discuss within European professional communities of SLTs. Following this topic, Baltic States Associations of Speech and Language Therapists’ (Lithuanian and Latvian Logopedists’ Associations, Estonian Union of Logopedists’) in collaboration with Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy (Kaunas) and Vilnius University Siauliai Academy (Siauliai) is organising the 8th Congress of Baltic States Speech and Language Therapists’. Congress aim is – to bring together researchers, practitioners and students to discuss the relevant issues of profession across the human age span, providing practical guidelines for speech and language therapists to enable them focus on evidence-based speech and language therapy. All the researchers, practionnaires and speech and language therapy students from different countries and various work contexts, health care and education institutions, are welcomed at the Congress. The political, educational and professional practice issues will be presented and discussed by researchers and practitioners from interdisciplinary fields, education, linguistics, psychology and medicine, related to speech and language therapy. We sincerely hope that each participant will find relevant topics for his /her practice within the Scientific Programme of the Congress, which provide opportunity to expand professional knowledge and experiences.