President-elect Prof Tamer Abou-Elsaad, Past Presidents Helen Grech and Lily Cheng, and Vice-President Education Fernanda Dreux attended the One Belt One Road Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders in Beijing, China, under the auspices of Beijing Language and Culture University and the Chinese Speech and Hearing Association. In his capacity as the future IALP President, Prof Abou-Elsaad was invited to give a speech at the opening ceremony of the conference, incorporating a review of the common goals and vision between the association and the conference. In addition, the President of the University, Prof Duan Peng, and Professor Lilly Cheng, as the honorary president of the conference and former IALP President addressed the audience.

Affiliated Society Membership

There are 3 types of membership of Affiliate Society, depending on the profile of the organization. Category A Society Membership: National organizations in communication sciences and disorders having individual members among their membership. Examples of this category are The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA ), Speech Pathology Australia (SPA)and The Egyptian Society for Phoniatrics and Logopedics. (ESPL) Category B Society Membership: Multinational, regional, or local organizations in communication sciences and disorders having individual members among their membership. Category C Society Membership: Multinational, national, regional, or local organizations in communication sciences and disorders comprised of Societies as their membership. When your National Society/Association wishes to join the IALP as an Affiliated Society, please fill in and send the Application Form for IALP Affiliated Membership below.

Please fill in and send the Application Form for IALP Affiliated Membership below:

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Student Membership

An individual enrolled for part- or full-time study for preregistration, undergraduate or postgraduate studies directly related to the field of human communication disorders and sciences at a formal education institution. Students must provide official evidence of enrolment at the time of joining the Association and/or registering for a congress/composium.

Individual Membership

On behalf of the IALP I would like to thank you for considering membership in our global organisation of professionals.