Our meeting hotel is offering super room rates of $80, single to quad occupancy, (plus room tax of 12.5%) from September 12-14, 2008. Under usual circumstances they will honor that rate up to 3 days prior and after. This is a gorgeous hotel literally in the heart of Orlando’s entertainment and theme park district. Our Annual Meeting sessions will include an option to monitor a portion of the Vic Baird Graduate Student Program beginning Friday evening. The graduate students will join the FLA AM on Saturday morning in the Hollywood Ballroom of the Four Points by Sheraton Studio City hotel, Orlando, FL www.sheraton.com/studiocity
Pre-registration is required by August 22, 2008 for early bird discount. Nominal late fees apply after this date. Hotel reservations are also required by August 22, 2008. Must 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. We are again including 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. Due to very limited funds we anticipate only 4-5 financial grants based on actual expenses up to $450 each.. All grants are limited to Florida residents. We are increasing the number of students in the graduate student speech training sessions by inviting additional Graduate School Departments from Florida Universities. The 2008 program is developed to be new, fresh, exciting and beneficial to all. Included in the registration fee (lowest of any regional conference) is admittance to all AM sessions (including admittance to the Friday evening graduate student program as a monitor) and admittance to the exhibition room. As a big bonus we throw in the Friday evening “Meet and Greet” reception by the pool, mid morning and afternoon refreshments with snacks and a complementary light 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. New this year! No more choosing between fish or chicken –Instead, an excellent double entrée dinner! Ummmm! Don’t miss it! Agenda and registration form available soon.

Conference Contact:
Charlie Blair, President
8745 Maplewood Road
Largo, FL 33777
Ph/fax 727-391-3473
Email; cblair2@tampabay.RR.com