National Conference Speaker Acceptance Agreement

National Conference Speaker Acceptance Agreement

We are pleased that you will be speaking at the Apraxia Kids National Conference July 11-13, 2024.  We appreciate your patience through this process.  We ask that you review this document, sign and return to us no later than March 1, 2023.  Session times based on your session proposal will be announced in the next week.

Please choose how presenting and/or recording your session:
As a Conference Presenter, Apraxia Kids will waive your conference registration fee for the National Conference.  Once registration opens in March, we ask that you register by April 15th. Please use the promotional code: 2024SPEAKER as the discount code. Please know that this code is for your use only and is only valid for the National Conference. If you will be bringing a guest to attend conference sessions, they must be registered in a separate transaction.

By signing below as a Presenter for the 2024 Apraxia National Conference, you agree to the following requirements and expectations:

  • Presenters will be required to register, at no cost, for the conference by April 15, 2024.   Registration will include admission to both days of the Conference, including continental breakfast and lunch on both days of the Conference, and the Keynote Opening Address & Reception.
  • Speakers are responsible for their own travel and hotel stay.  Apraxia Kids has a block of rooms at the conference hotel reserved for speakers at a rate of $199 per night. Please contact the hotel directly once conference registration opens in March to book your hotel no later than March 31st.
  • Apraxia Kids will arrange for a microphone, podium, screen, and LCD projector for all workshop sessions.
  • Apraxia Kids does not pay speaker honoraria.
  • Apraxia Kids reserves the right to edit workshop titles and descriptions for brevity, clarity, and consistency.
  • Permission is granted to Apraxia Kids and the Apraxia Kids Website to use and distribute (including but not limited to use in newsletters, appeals, web pages, and publications) at their discretion, any photographs or video taken at the 2024 National Conference on Childhood Apraxia of Speech events in which you or a minor member of your family may be a part.
  • Apraxia Kids’ policy is that our Conference Program must provide fair, full disclosure and balance to all aspects of a topic being presented.  Presentations should not include promotional influence, endorsement, commercialism, and/or selling.  If therapeutic options are not validated by peer reviewed research, this fact should be acknowledged in the presentation.  Additional options for promotion of products or services are available as a sponsor or exhibitor during the entire Conference.  Please contact us for more information.
  • Presenter agrees to obtain and maintain signed authorizations granting permission to the contractor for use of each audio/video recording used in their presentation, including authorizations from any individuals appearing in videos or other media. Apraxia Kids may request copies of such signed authorizations.
  • Presenter agrees to submit their handouts to Apraxia Kids by June 14, 2024
  • If you are pre-recording your session, additional information will be shared. The deadline for recordings will be June 14, 2024.

By signing this acceptance, you agree to the above terms.

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