The Jeddah Institute for Speech and Hearing, in cooperation with the Saudi Society for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, organized the 23rd Annual Scientific Conference on Communication Disorders, under the theme “Together We Train, Together We Achieve” on Saturday and Sunday, October 5-6. The conference included many training courses, specialized workshops and lectures presented by a group of prominent consultants and specialists from inside and outside the Kingdom in the fields of speech disorders, audiology, and psychological and behavioral disorders. It is worth noting that the conference activities are accredited as continuing medical education hours by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Board for Applied Behavior Analysis BACB.

The most prominent events include the training course “Diagnosis of Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorders” by Dr. Charles Haynes, PhD, Speech Disorders from the Institute of Health Professions in Boston, USA; Strategic Education for Applied Behavior Analysis in Schools by Dr. Shahd Al Sharif, Certified Behavior Analyst; Pharmacological Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder by Dr. Bashayer Al Marri; Protocols and Best Practices for Conducting Special Auditory Tests to Assess Hearing Problems; and other important lectures in these areas.