Scarlet Neighborhood: Boystown 3320 N. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60657 773-348-1053 http://www.scarletbarchicago.com Time: 6p - 11p
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
Thursday night's social and business meeting will follow the same format we
adopted in Boston. Light refreshments will be served. Cash bar. A short meeting
agenda will be conducted. Meeting Time: 6:30 pm-8:30 pm. Location/Room Assignment: Chicago Hilton, Blvd C, 2nd Floor.
After our meeting we will join the Multicultural Concerns Collective – MC2 for their festive social, "Increasing your CCC – Cultural Competence in Chicago!" held on the 3rd floor of the Chicago Hilton in the Waldorf Room. Meeting Time: 8-9:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
We have been granted space by ASHA for Friday's popular
Leadership and
Business Luncheon. Bring your lunch and join us! Meeting Time: 11:30
am-1:00 pm. Hyatt McCormick Conference,
Center, CC23 A.
Dykes Night Out: Join us for evening of FUN Chicago's Mini Bar, 3341 N Halsted St. Chicago (773) 871-6227.
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008
Join us for Chicago style pizza at Giordano's, a Chicago landmark. Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: In the theater district at 310 West Randolph Street. There are several locations so make sure you get the right address. Cost: $14.50 per person plus tax and tip. The pizza package deal includes a variety of meat and veggie pizzas plus salad and soda. Sign up in advance or at our booth in the convention hall as soon as possible. Reservations have been secured for 20-30 spaces.
Chicago's Greeter Service is offering a walking tour of Chicago and the
city's gay and lesbian neighboorhoods. The tour starts at 1 p.m. on
Saturday, November 22 and leaves from the Chicago Cultural Visitors
Information Center located at 77 East Randolph Street. Reply to
Faix@yahoo.com to put your name on the reservation list. Seats are
limited for this tour. You may also sign up for this tour at our booth
in the convention hall.
Free
60 minute tours are also available through the Chicago Cultural Center.
These tours are offered throughout the weekend for those of you who
would like a tour but can't make Saturday's scheduled gay and lesbian
neighborhood tour.
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
For those of you planning to stay through Sunday a list of recommended
brunch spots will be available at our booth in the convention hall.
As you make your plans be aware that the gay district of Boystown/Andersonville requires a transit ride to the convention site, http://www.mccormickplace.com/ . Consult the Chicago Transit Authority's website, www.transitchicago.com, for guidance.
This study examined what non-voice criteria listeners use to determine
a speaker’s gender. An audio sample from a male speaker was transcribed
and used as a control paragraph. The transcribed text was modified
three times to include language characteristics often associated with
female language use: tag questions, more adjectives/adverbs, and
hedges. The four texts were then presented to college students, who
were asked to rate the texts as male or female and state their
reasoning. Results do not appear to support the theory that adding more
of these characteristics to her speech will help the MtF clients pass
as female.
Skill Level: Introductory (Assumes little or no familiarity with the literature and professional practice within the areas covered)
Room: McCormick Place South –CC/S102A
Tara Johnson MGH Inst of Hlth Professions, Cambridge, MA
This presentation will provide an introduction to the underserved
transgender (TG) population and their communication needs. Voice and
communication issues often place TG individuals at risk for physical
and emotional injuries. Unfortunately, speech-language pathologists
(SLPs) are often unfamiliar with this community, and TG individuals are
frequently wary of health care professionals. This presentation will
focus on how we bridge the divide between the TG population’s needs and
the lack of services available to them. Topics will include a basic
introduction to TG issues, why SLP services are so desperately needed,
and an overview of treatment techniques used with this population.
Saturday,
November
22
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Session Number: 2582 Poster Board 354
Skill Level: Introductory (Assumes little or no familiarity with the literature and professional practice within the areas covered)
Room: McCormick Place West –CC/Hall F2
Frederick DiCarlo EdD Nova Southeastern U, Fort Lauderdale, LF Shelley Victor EdD Nova Southeastern U, Pompano Beach, FL
This poster presentation provides the results of a between- and
within-subjects pre- and postsurvey control design used to assess the
effectiveness of diversity training on graduate students’ beliefs about
affirmative clinical practice with and attitudes toward gays and
lesbians. The convenience sample included students enrolled in an
online master’s level speech-language program. A repeated-measures
factorial MANOVA indicated results not statistically significant;
however, a comparison of average mean scores on all outcome measures
for the experimental group and the control group, before and after
training, indicated a marginal trend of improvement for the
experimental group as compared to the control group.
The purpose of this study was to determine the success of
male-to-female (MTF) transgendered clients in shifting listener
perceptions of their vocal gender following voice therapy and to
identify changes in acoustic parameters. Subjects included five MTF
transsexuals who underwent eight weeks of voice therapy, five control
males, and five control females. Listener perceptions of the vocal
gender of the transgendered subjects increased from an average of 2
percent female prior to therapy to an average of 51 percent female
after therapy. Significant pre- to post-test increases in SFF, SFF
upper and lower limits, and F3 of /i/ accompanied the perceptual shift.
This case study documents the responses of a 37-year-old man with
neurogenic stuttering accompanied by dysarthria to fluency enhancing
conditions, including delayed auditory feedback, frequency altered
feedback, and choral reading. Frequency altered feedback and choral
reading produced reductions in dysfluency compared to reading and
conversation with no altered auditory feedback. In contrast, delayed
auditory feedback produced increases in dysfluency. Results are
compared to the only other known case study investigating the effects
of frequency altered feedback on neurogenic stuttering.
