The Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience of Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders

在通信科学和其他卫生职业中有效的循证临床实践需要 从基础科学到临床实践的几个发展阶段。首先，临床研究产生了 诊断和治疗方法依赖于坚实的理论基础。康复方法 在临床研究中产生的，然后需要进一步转化为一种形式，以促进有效 在临床或学校环境中实施。知识向临床实践转化的过程 几个挑战，其中最明显的是实验室环境之间的实际差异， 制定干预措施，并在实施干预措施的临床环境中进行干预。这次会议讨论了两个问题 实现真正的循证实践的其他挑战：(1)对临床从业者进行关于进步的教育 理论和经验支持的康复方法以及(2)研究人员之间的交流 并使临床从业者更好地将临床研究成果落实到实践中。11年来， 埃莉诺·M·萨夫兰关于认知神经科学和沟通障碍康复的会议 提供了一个论坛，让以患者为中心的基础和应用研究的研究人员、临床从业者、 对语言和其他认知障碍有共同兴趣的教师和学生可以分享 翻译“鸿沟”两边的知识和技能。这个一年一度的为期两天的会议聚焦于一场 与特定语言障碍(例如，句子处理障碍)有关的主题或与 康复研究(例如，结果衡量标准)。第一天包括关于当前理论的平台论文和 康复研究中出现的实践。这一天有充足的时间在两人之间进行讨论 演讲者和听众，包括言语/语言病理学家、神经心理学家、心理学家、 神经学家、语言学家和来自这些不同学科的学生，他们对认知有共同的兴趣 沟通障碍及其康复的神经科学。第二天是一个研讨会，提供 为临床医生和研究人员提供了一个论坛，以解决实验室翻译中涉及的实际问题 为临床实践制定了诊断和治疗方案。会议的这一组成部分是独一无二的 并为研究人员和临床医生提供了一个共同参与 翻译/实施过程。本次会议的第三个重要挑战是履行其使命，将 这次会议为学生提供的教育机会。我们通过两种方式应对这一挑战。 首先，所有学术水平的学生(本科生到博士后)都可以免费参加会议。 其次，有十个竞争激烈的学生奖学金颁发给博士后或博士后学生 水平。该奖项包括旅行、住宿、住宿，以及在海报中展示他们的研究成果的机会 会议第一天举行的会议。这一计划已被证明是非常成功的， 获奖者来自全国和世界各地。

Effective evidence-based clinical practice in the communication sciences and other health professions requires several stages of development from basic science to clinical practice. First, clinical research that generates diagnostic and treatment approaches depends on a sound theoretical foundation. The rehabilitation methods that are generated in clinical research then need to be further translated to a form that facilitates effective implementation in clinical or school settings. The process of knowledge translation to clinical practice faces several challenges, the most obvious of which is the practical differences between laboratory settings where interventions are developed and clinical settings where they are implemented. This conference addresses two other challenges to achieving true evidence based practice: (1) education of clinical practitioners about advances in theoretically and empirically supported rehabilitation methods and (2) communication between researchers and clinical practitioners to better effect implementation of clinical research into practice. For eleven years, the Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on the Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders has provided a forum in which researchers in basic and applied patient-oriented research, clinical practitioners, academic faculty and students with a common interest in language and other cognitive disorders can share knowledge and skills on each side of the translational ‘gap’. This annual two-day conference focuses on a single topic relating to a specific language disorder (e.g., sentence processing disorders) or to a more general topic in rehabilitation research (e.g., outcome measures). The first day includes platform papers on current theories and practices emerging from rehabilitation research. The day includes ample time for discussion between the presenters and the audience which includes speech/language pathologists, neuropsychologists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and students from these various disciplines, who share a common interest in cognitive neuroscience of communication disorders and their rehabilitation. The second day is a workshop that provides a forum for clinicians and researchers to address the practical considerations involved in translating laboratory developed diagnostic and treatment protocols to clinical practice. This component of the conference is unique and provides a real opportunity for researchers and clinicians to participate together in the translation/implementation process. A third important challenge of this conference is to fulfill its mission to extend the educational opportunities that this conference provides to students. We address this challenge in two ways. First, students at all academic levels (undergraduate to post-doctoral) can attend the conference for free. Second, there are ten competitive student scholar travel awards given to students at the doctoral or post-doctoral level. The award includes travel, accommodations, hotel, and a chance to present their research in a poster session on the first day of the conference. This program has been proved to be enormously successful, with awardees coming from across the nation and worldwide.