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  • Thursday, February 19, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM CST
    Nominations Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    AAC in Acute Care: Maximizing Communication and Dysphagia Management
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Adverse Effect, Educational Impact, and Eligibility in the School Setting
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Bridging the Distance: Illinois SLP Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Telelpractice and Implications for Practice
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Co-Creating Transparent Expectations and Policies for Using Artificial Intelligence: Recommendations for Academic and Clinical Instructors, Clinical Supervisors, and Graduate Students
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Empowering SLPs to Treat Literacy: Practical Tools for Language-Based Reading Intervention
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    School Affairs 2026 Update
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Telepractice Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Traditional Articulation Approach Glow Up: Use Principles of Motor Learning (for real this time) to Accelerate Progress
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Unmasking the College Experience: Understanding Camouflaging and Executive Functioning in Autistic Students
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Communications Committee Meeting
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Hearing Loss, Cognition, and Social Interaction: Preliminary Study Findings
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    A Day in the Life of a Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    A Team Approach: Professional and Family Collaboration for Gestalt Language Processors
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Clinical Decision-Making in Complex Dysphagia Cases: Integrating Evidence, Host Factors, and Patient Goals
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Early Childhood Stuttering: Discussion of Clinical Features and Options
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Ethical Considerations in Augmentative and Alternative Communication 2.0: Doing the right thing; better than last year
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Looking Under the Words: Counseling Parents in Challenging Moments
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Smart Practice: Using AI to Streamline Evidence-Based Decision Making
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
    Ethics Education Committee Meeting
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Flipping the Box: Building Bridges in a World That Doesn't Always Listen
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    DEI Committee Meeting
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Employment Readiness for Autistic Young Adults: Teaching, learning, and supporting
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Ethics and Evidence-Based Practice in AAC
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    From Interprofessional Collaboration to Cotreatment in Speech-Language Pathology
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Listening Effort, Cognition, and Social Interaction in Older Adults with Hearing Loss
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    The Dynamic Duo Blueprint: Building Your Knowledge of SLPA Practice & Supervision
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Toy Talk: A Descriptive Commenting Strategy to Promote Toddlers’ Sentence Development
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Vocology: The Art and Science of the Human Voice
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Multicultural Topics Committee Meeting
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CST
    Contributions from an AAC Communicator: Get out into the world, explore, participate, tell everyone about it.
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CST
    Ethics and FEES Across the Lifespan
  • 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Caring for Caregivers: Applications through Case Study
  • 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Embracing Functional Communication Goals with Children and Teens who Stutter
  • 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Say It Your Way: Vocabulary Selection for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Users
  • 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    The AAC P.A.G.E.S Part 1: Profile, Analysis of Learning, and Goals
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    University Chair & Clinic Directors Meeting
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Honors Committee Meeting
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a multidisciplinary team approach
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Narrative Macrostructure and Microstructure in English-Polish Bilingual Teenagers
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Leadership Development: Putting Training into Action
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Less Stress, Better Results: Facilitating Successful Audiological Testing in Children with Autism
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Public Information, Membership, & Marketing Committee Meeting
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Expanding Expression: A Multi-Sensory Approach for Improved Oral and Written Language
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    The AAC P.A.G.E.S Part 2: Educating Communication Partners, Factors for AAC Success, and Intervention Strategies
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM CST
    Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee Update
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Honors Reception/Scholarship Fundraiser
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CST
    Exploring AI in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Applications and Ethical Implications
  • Friday, February 20, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Diagnosis and Management of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Autoimmune Disorders
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Ethics Ping Pong: Consensus, Conflict, and Conversation
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Fostering International Collaboration in Communication Disorders: Why and How
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Student Involvement Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Telepractice Services: Policy, Best Practices in AAC, and Early Intervention
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    The 2025 Illinois Speech Language Pathology Guide: Eligibility and Workload Analysis
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Voice Pathology: Culturally Responsive Assessment and Treatment
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Working With Children Who Have Rare Conditions: Providing Parent Advocacy and Support
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Audiology Committee Meeting
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Your Grad School Game Plan: Tips and Tools for a Strong Application
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Achieving patient centered care through individualized comprehensive assessment profiles of cochlear implant users
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Eliciting a Language Sample from Bilingual Students using SLAM cards
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Fostering Equitable Communication Practices in Mental Health Services for Aphasia Through Speech-Language Pathology and Psychology Collaboration
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Integrating AI in SLP: A Theory-Informed Approach
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Redefining Roles: Elevating SLPs in Interprofessional Education and Practice
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Tips to Implement Visual Scene Displays with Early Communicators to Support Language
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Differential Diagnosis and Management of Motor Speech Disorders
  • 9:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Person-Centered Care: Building a Foundation for Students and Clinicians
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
    Evidence-Based Practice Committee Meeting
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST
    Bridging the Gap: From Classroom to Career - Strategies for a Smooth Transition from Student Life to Professional Success
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    How to support a gestalt language processor with AAC?
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    I Don't Have Time! Efficient Progress Monitoring of Social Skills in Elementary Students
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Measuring Transtracheal Airway Pressures to Guide Speaking Valve Use in Tracheostomized Patients
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Practical and ethical considerations about billing practices for communication differences
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CST
    Spoken Language Development in Children who are Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing: A Focus on Morphology
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Medical Practice Issues Committee Meeting
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Advocating for Access: Using Student-Led Research to Address Medicaid Service Gaps in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Across Illinois -
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Artificial Intelligence and Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Essential Knowledge for Clinicians and Educators.
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Building Intentional Clinicians: Integrating Clinical and Professional Skills in Weekly Class Meetings
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Emergent Literacy Techniques that Boost Language Confidence in Complex Communicators
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Restorative Literacy: Pushing Beyond the Margins of Punitive Schooling and Standardized Intervention
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CST
    Seeing to understand: how children who are deaf or hard of hearing leverage visual speech cues to process spoken language
  • 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM CST
    Making Language AACcessible-Augmentative and Alterative Communication Access Considerations for SLPs
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Billing & Reimbursement Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Dysphagia management during a myasthenia gravis crisis: Speech Language Pathologist’s role
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Effect of Glossectomy on Tongue Strength and Swallowing Over Time
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Empowering Informal Caregivers: A Scoping Review of Educational and Communication Supports for Dementia Care
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Speech-Language Pathology Assessment and Intervention: A Scoping Review
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Leadership Development Program Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Noninvasive Technologies Used to Assess and Treat Swallowing Disorders
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Optimizing the Diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s: A Scoping Review of Patient Characteristics and Diagnostic Tools
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Pediatric dysphagia demographics and signs in a tertiary hospital
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Preparing the Next Generation of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists to Use Artificial Intelligence to Support Students
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Role of Image Complexity in Aphasia Treatment: Analyzing the Collaborative Referencing Intervention
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Sepsis and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Talking with Hands: Changes in Gesture Use During Aphasia Group Treatment
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    White Matter Integrity and tDCS-Enhanced Speech Motor Learning in Chronic Post-Stroke Apraxia of Speech
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    AI in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology: Current Applications and Future Innovations
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    How Organizational Health Literacy and Language Services Shape Access to Hearing Care in the United States.
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    Running Speech Only IEP Meetings in Spanish/Key IEP Terminology in Spanish
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    School Affairs Committee
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
    SLP recommendation for medication administration: Potential impact on medication bioavailability
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Assistants and Supervisors Forum: Licensure, Supervision, and Practice
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Let's Talk About Brains, Baby! Engaging Kids and Families in Conversations about Neurodiversity
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Teaching Advocacy Skills to Kids and Teens Who Stutter: Application of a Conceptual Model
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    A Voice Beyond the Larynx: Interdisciplinary Success in Alaryngeal Rehabilitation
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Adverse Childhood Experiences on Children’s Language Development: A Scoping Review
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Audiologists' and Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Hearing and Cognition
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Capstone Proposal
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Diagnostic Methods for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Scoping Review
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Effects of an Interprofessional Education Day for Communication Disorders and Sciences Graduate Students
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Impact of Sjögren’s disease in professional voice users quality of life.
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in the Treatment of Voice Disorders
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Postlingual Cochlear Implant Users: Impacts on Quality of Life
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Public awareness and knowledge about speech-language pathology scope of practice and voice, swallowing, and upper airway disorders
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Rehabilitation Approaches for Cognitive-Communication Impairments Post-COVID-19: A Scoping Review
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Shaping the Future in Differential Diagnosis for Autism and Related Diagnoses
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    The Influence of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors on Detection of Hearing Impairment in Infants and Preschool Aged Children
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST
    Vignette-Based Training for Volunteer Youth Sports Coaches to Improve Recognition of Potential Concussion
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    What’s New in Augmentative and Alternative Communication? Exploring Emerging Tech, Apps, and AI Tools for Clinicians
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Committee
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    "Am I Safe Here?”: Inclusive Supervision and Student Belonging in Clinical Education
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    Dyad based therapy as a pedagogical strategy
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    SLPs Off Script: Tinkering Through Clinical Uncertainty
  • 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Coaching Children's Museum Staff to Implement Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Communication Partner Strategies: A Single Case Design Study
  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    The Impact of Self-Reported Motivation on Language Output of People With Aphasia
  • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    Parent Perspectives of Speech Language Pathology Services Following a Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Early Intervention Committee Meeting
  • 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Exploring Vowel Space Area and Intelligibility in Male Tracheoesophageal Speakers
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Knowledge Quest (College Bowl)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Representative Council Meeting
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Division for Education Development Committee Meeting