FLA AM and Vic Baird Graduate Student Program meets October 1 -3, 2010 at the Four Points by Sheraton Studio City Hotel, Orlando, Florida. www.sheraton.com/studiocity

Room rates are $85, single to quad occupancy, (plus room tax of 12.5%) Under usual circumstances they will honor that rate up to 3 days prior and after.

Our Annual Meeting sessions will include an option to monitor a portion of the Vic Baird Graduate Student Program beginning Friday evening. Florida University graduate students will join the FLA AM on Saturday morning

Pre-registration is required by September 18, 2010 for early bird discount. Nominal late fees apply after this date. Hotel reservations are also required by September 18, 2010. Call hotel Reservations at 800-327-1366 for “FLA Annual Meeting”. Check-in and late onsite reservations will be in the Grand Foyer at a time to be announced later.

Included are free individual speech evaluations and therapy with more speech sessions. These will observed by the graduate students as training aids. Our faculty and staff will consist of veteran Speech Pathologists at PhD and Masters level with more than 100 years of combined experience serving laryngectomees. We continue soliciting first timers offering more free therapy and providing access to limited financial assistance to Florida residents. .

The number of students in the graduate student speech training sessions will be increased by inviting additional Graduate School Departments from Florida Universities. The 2010 programs are developed to be new, fresh, exciting and beneficial to all. Included in the registration fee (lowest of most regional conferences) is admittance to all AM sessions (including the Friday evening graduate student program as a monitor) and admittance to the exhibition room. Bonuses include the Friday evening “Meet and Greet” reception by the pool, mid morning and afternoon refreshments with snacks and a complementary light box lunch on Sunday, All complements of the FLA and our wonderful Vendors. Our Saturday evening banquet will feature our usual enormous amount of donated raffle prizes. An excellent buffett dinner, which includes a carving station. Agenda and registration link below Sorry; on-site registration not yet available.

Conference Contact:

Robert Smiley, President

6405 Dallas Ave

Port St John, Fl. 32927

PH – 321-536-0831

FAX – 321-504-7955

Email – smiley_robert@bellsouth.net