IN MILAN ON MAY 17 AND 18, THE 14th CLASTA Conference
The 14th edition of the CLASTA Conference will take place in Milan on May 17 and 18, 2024, in collaboration with the University of Milan-Bicocca.
The choice of the venue was inspired by the desire to pay a heartfelt tribute to Laura D’Odorico, one of the founding members of the Association, on the 10th anniversary of her passing.
Some of the central themes of the CLASTA Conference will touch on topics that were dear to Laura D’Odorico. That is why the keynote lectures will address the fundamental themes that characterized the various phases of her illustrious career. Rosalinda Cassibba will guide us through the relationship between attachment, communication, and language, while Núria Esteve-Gibert will delve into the role of prosody in linguistic development, both typical and atypical.
In addition to the keynote lectures, the program will include space for thematic sessions, multidisciplinary discussion of a clinical case, poster presentations, as well as presentations of books and assessment tools. As usual, contests for the Best Thesis and Best Poster are open. Furthermore, we are launching a call dedicated to young researchers, providing them with the opportunity to organize a thematic symposium.
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.