CLASTA CONFERENCE 2025
Awards
Best Poster Award
The CLASTA association announces the 2025 Best Poster Award. The best poster presented at the CLASTA Conference 2025 (May 23-24, 2025) by a member of the association who is at the early steps of his/her professional career (e.g., Ph.D. student, post-doc or graduate fellow, graduate in training) will be awarded.
We reserve the right to announce the prize amount and any supporting sponsors at a later date. Additionally, the Association may recognize other noteworthy works with Special Mentions and corresponding prizes, details of which will be communicated subsequently.
Best Doctoral Dissertation
The CLASTA Association is granting two awards of 500 euros each, to the best Ph.D. dissertation (calendar years 2023 and 2024) focused on issues related to: typical and atypical development of communication and language in their different forms and modalities; the interactions between language development and other developmental domains, the role of individual and environmental factors on communication and language development, design and/or validation of tools for assessing communicative-linguistic skills, language and communication interventions for children with typical and atypical development and evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions.
Doctoral dissertations, relating to Ph.D. courses completed in the calendar years 2023 and 2024 at a university located in Italy, must be sent in pdf format to giornateclasta@gmail.com by 31 March 2025 (IMPORTANT: in the subject line of the email write: Last name First name_competition_doctoral dissertation).
CLASTA organizes every year a two-day conference (Giornate CLASTA) that gathers researchers and practitioners working within the field of language and communication development in typical and atypical populations. The Giornate CLASTA include keynote lectures, thematic symposia and poster sessions.
Since 2014, CLASTA has also been promoting a working group that includes more than 20 Associations, Organizations, and Institutions, for the implementation of a Consensus Conference on primary language impairment. The Consensus Conference is organized in collaboration with the Federation of Italian Speech and Language Therapists.