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Constance Dean Qualls, chair and professor, Speech-Language Pathology, was the invited keynote speaker for the first research conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Special Interest Division 14, Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Populations. Her presentation was titled “Scientifically Based Professional Practice.” The conference, titled “State of the Research in CVD Populations: Establishing Our Foundation and Advancing Our Science,” was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June. Qualls also presented an invited six-hour continuing education seminar on “Evidence-Based Management of Neurogenic Language Disorders” as the ASHA-sponsored speaker for the Alaska Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference in Anchorage, Alaska, in November. She recently published a paper inCommunication Disorders Quarterly with coauthors Blood et al. titled “Double Jeopardy for Children Who Stutter: Race and Coexisting Disorders.”