Damian was one of the experts in the panel that focused on the question: “How, as a speech-language therapist, do you examine an adult after an acquired brain injury?” She was joined in by Dorien Vandenborre, Ineke Wilssens, Catherine Cornette, Melissa Konings, Katrien De Brouwer (Thomas More University) and Lorinda Kwan (The Education University of Hong Kong.” The panel focused on adults with acquired cognitive-linguistic disorders.

Meanwhile, Maximo joined the panel on “The power of reading aloud. Let’s use it build vocabulary.” Joining Maximo were Els Geypen and An Lowette (Thomas More University), and Carmen Ooi (The Education University of Hong Kong).

A total of 52 third-year BS Speech-Language Pathology students from the ľĹÉ« joined this internationalization activity.

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Led by UST Chair Ms. Judith Damian, the faculty were not only participants, but were also organizers and presentors during the scientific sessions.

Paper presentors were Ms. Czarina Maximo, who delivered the research paper titled “Speech intelligibility of typically-developing Filipino-language dominant children aged four years old enrolled in ECCD-monitored day-care centers in Metro Manila: a secondary data analysis” and Mr. Jonathan Gerona, who delivered the research paper titled “Lexical diversity and density of typically-developing Filipino-language dominant children aged 4 years old enrolled in ECCD-monitored day-care centers in Metro Manila: a secondary data analysis.”

This year’s convention was held in partnership with the American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA). It was considered a milestone as this is the first time that PASP and ASHA worked closely together for one convention. In attendance were the officers and esteemed members of ASHA led by its president, Dr. Elise McFarland and Chief Staff Officer, Dr. Lemmietta McNeilly.

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