Call for papers

Participants are invited to submit an Abstract for a Talk, Workshop or Poster, related to the general topics of the conference.

The language used will be English.

All presenters must register for the conference.

Abstract submission opens: October 28, 2023
Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2024

We encourage you to invite colleagues to participate in the conference and submit original research.

All submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee of the meeting. The main criteria for acceptance will be the scientific quality of the proposals/submissions, followed by the diversity of the topics

The Committee may change an Abstract to a topic or theme session of the program that they found more appropriate.

All Abstracts will be published on the conference website and in a Book of Abstracts.

TALKS

Oral presentation should present scientific work and be no longer than 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions and comments. They will be grouped into sessions according to content.

Abstracts for Free papers should contain: Title (max. 150 characters with spaces); Authors: name, affiliation; Abstract (max. 1250 characters with space, ca. 150-200 words). The investigation’s objective, method, results and conclusion; Keywords (max. 5).

To encourage the quality of presentations, the best presentation for the audience will be awarded by the “Best Communicator Award”, dotado con 1000 €.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops will last 50 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions and comments. We encourage presenters to submit practical workshops. The focus of your workshop should be on a real-time demonstration of your techniques using the audience members, singers, actors, or patients provided. This is not a lecture format. Please describe in the Abstract what the participants will see or hear, and in what way they will be involved. If the abstract submission does not explain how the majority of the time will be hands on, then it will likely not be under consideration. To encourage the quality of workshops, lectures, voice in motion will be awarded by the “Best Communicator Award”, dotado con 1000 €. To encourage the quality of presentations, the best presentation for the audience will be awarded by the “Best Communicator Award”, dotado con 1000 €.

TALKS

Assessment and intervention of dysphonia, measuring treatment outcome and effects, voice disorders and quality of life, acoustic and perceptual evaluation, voice therapy approaches, clinical practice of speech pathology, behavioral learning and habit change, voice therapy for functional, organic and neurological voice disorders, transgender voice, Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) and paradoxical vocal fold motion (PVFM), tracheoesophageal voice, voice therapy for children, etc.

MEDICAL

Medical conditions that affect the voice, laryngeal impairments and lesions, assessment and treatment of functional, organic and neurological voice disorders, phono-surgery, head and neck cancer, management and outcome, clinical practice of phoniatrics, advances in laryngeal visualization and assessment, etc.

VOICE PEDAGOGY

Singing, theatrical voice, rhetorics and oral presentation, singing styles, choral singing, child voice pedagogy, singing exercises and their function, perspectives on voice teaching techniques, historical and contemporary issues of voice pedagogy and performing, vocal coaching, instructions and feedback, vocal warm-up, vocal tract configuration, articulatory settings and timbre, vocal range and registers, etc.