Helping children communicate Local speech-language pathologist Anthea Murrell is trying to raise awareness about hearing and speech disorders leading up to Better Hearing and Speech Month in May. "We will be trying to highlight a different disability/disorder each week during the month," said Murrell. Murrell has been the owner of Anthea Murrell and Associates for six years. The practice reaches out to families throughout Hastings and Prince Edward counties including in Picton, Belleville, Trenton, Deseronto and Tyendinaga Territory. MORE: read this entire Belleville Intelligencer article ... 2009 CDAAC Awards CDAAC's annual awards recognize outstanding contributions to the field of communication disorders from students and full members. Information and Nomination forms for the 2009 awards are now available (Word files, 50 kb each): > Full Member Award: info and nomination form. > Student Award: info and nomination form.

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Web site updates:

• Friday, Feb 5, 2010
  The CDAAC Spring Conference will be held in Ottawa on Friday May 28th, 2010...stay tuned for more details.
• Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
  The Winter issue of the CDAAC newsletter, The Connector (184 kb PDF) is now available in the members' area
• Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
  French Name Ballot - documents containing (1) the mail ballot, and (2) explanation of the mail ballot are now available regarding the proposed French language name change for CDAAC. See: 2009-mail-ballot.doc (26 kb) and 2009-explanation-of-forms.doc (60 kb)
• Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
  1 new employment listing has been added in the members' area.

• Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
  The Fall issue of the CDAAC newsletter, The Connector (261 kb PDF) is now available in the members' area
• Friday, Sep. 25, 2009
  1 new employment listing has been added in the members' area.

• Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009
  2009 Annual General Meeting brochure is available for download: 2009-AGM-Brochure.pdf (154 kb PDF)
• Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
  Call for nominations for 2010 CDAAC Executive - details available for download from members' area: 2010-Nomination-call.doc (Word doc., 21 kb)
• Monday, Aug. 17, 2009
  CDAAC's 2009 AGM
  Saturday, October 17th, 2009
  Durham Collage, Oshawa Ontario
  Further Details TBA

• Monday, Aug. 17, 2009
  Membership survey for 2009 is now open, please see the the members' area for more information!
• Friday, Jul. 31, 2009
  WE WANT YOUR CREATIVITY!!!
  
  The Executive Committee of CDAAC is holding a poster design contest in order to increase publicity. We invite you to submit your completed designs or concepts for consideration. The winning submission will be awarded a $100 prize. Deadline for submission is September 4, 2009.
  
  More details can be found in the members' only section of the site. Please contact Catherine at 416-226-3636 x17 or clow@aphasia.ca if you need more information, have questions or want to submit a completed design or concept.