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

项目摘要。 在理想的世界里，科学家们设计了人类交流的干预措施，这些干预措施依次被翻译和 由临床医生实施。然后，患者和护理人员的反馈被用来优化和微调 治疗。现代康复是一个动态的过程，其有效性需要 众多学科和利益相关者。自2006年以来，埃莉诺·M·萨夫兰关于认知的会议 神经科学和沟通障碍的康复为从事基础科学提供了一个枢纽 实施科学。这次会议吸引了对以下领域有共同兴趣的专业人士和学生 语言和认知障碍，包括基础和临床研究的研究人员，临床从业者， 学术人员，以及代表言语语言病理学、神经心理学、 认知神经科学和语言学。在这次续签申请中，我们将继续这一使命，并扩大我们的 覆盖范围包括成功恢复语言和服务的其他主要主持人(例如，获得服务的机会) 认知障碍。通信科学和其他健康领域的有效循证实践 职业需要从基础科学到临床的几个发展阶段。因此，我们将保留我们的 从第一天上午的基础科学讲座到下午的应用临床研究的形式。这个 第2天的重点是向临床或学校实施基础研究和转化性研究的挑战 环境，部分原因是干预措施的实验室环境之间的实际差异 在实施它们的地方建立和临床环境。第二天提供了一个论坛来解决 将实验室开发的诊断和治疗方案转化为临床时涉及的实际考虑因素 练习一下。会议的这一部分为研究人员和临床医生提供了一个独特的机会 共同参与翻译/实施过程。我们正在扩展会议的这一功能 在成功地将研究转化为临床实施的过程中包括另外两个利益相关者：个人 与沟通障碍的人和患有沟通障碍的人的护理伙伴。这两个小组将 作为演讲者、讨论者和参与者以适合特定主题的方式参与 会议。我们也将继续我们的使命，培养学生，为他们提供相遇的机会 并与世界一流的研究人员和临床医生互动。所有学术水平的学生(本科生到研究生 博士)将免费参加会议。此外，我们将提供一个竞争性的学生奖学金 向博士后或博士后水平的学生开放的课程。该奖项包括旅行、住宿、 酒店，学生们有机会在会议的海报部分展示他们的研究成果。我们会 预算为10名学生，但接受尽可能多的合格候选人。这个项目已经在很大程度上 成功，申请者来自全国和世界各地。最后，展望未来， 会议将是混合的(面对面和流媒体)，使我们能够接触到更广泛、更多样化的受众。

Project Summary. In an ideal world, scientists devise interventions for human communication which are in turn translated and implemented by clinicians. Feedback from patients and caregivers is then used to optimize and fine-tune the treatment. Modern rehabilitation is a dynamic process, and its effectiveness requires coordination between numerous disciplines and stakeholders. Since 2006, the Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on the Cognitive Neuroscience and Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders has provided a hub for engaging basic science with implementation science. The conference attracts professionals and students with a common interest in language and cognitive disorders, including researchers in basic and clinical research, clinical practitioners, academic faculty, and students representing disciplines such as speech-language pathology, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and linguistics. In this renewal application, we will continue this mission and expand our coverage to include other key moderators (e.g., access to services) of successful rehabilitation of language and cognitive disorders. Effective evidence-based practice in the communication sciences and other health professions requires several stages of development from basic science to the clinic. Thus, we will retain our format that moves from basic science talks in the morning of Day 1 to applied clinical research in afternoon. The focus of Day 2 is on the challenges of implementing basic and translational research to the clinical or school setting, which stem in part from the practical differences between laboratory settings where interventions are developed and clinical settings where they are implemented. The second day provides a forum to address the practical considerations involved in translating laboratory developed diagnostic and treatment protocols to clinical practice. This component of the conference provides a unique opportunity for researchers and clinicians to participate together in the translation/implementation process. We are expanding this feature of the conference to include two other stakeholders in the successful translation of research to clinical implementation: individuals with communication disorders and care partners of people with communication disorders. These two groups will be involved as speakers, discussants and participants in ways that are fitting to the particular theme of a conference. We will also continue with our mission to train students and provide them with opportunities to meet and interact with world class researchers and clinicians . Students at all academic levels (undergraduate to post- doctoral) will attend the conference free of charge. Additionally, we will offer a competitive Student Scholar Award program open to students at the doctoral or post-doctoral level. The award includes travel, accommodations, hotel, and a chance for the students to present their research in a poster session at the conference. We will budget for ten students but accept as many qualified candidates as possible. This program has been enormously successful, with applicants coming from across the nation and worldwide. Finally, moving forward, the conference will be hybrid (in-person and streaming) to enable us to reach to a wider and more diverse audience.