The Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, established in 1985, strongly believes in the importance of creating continuous professional development opportunities to Speech-Language Pathologists in Malta. Throughout the years it held several seminars, talks and training workshops targeting a wide range of communication and swallowing disorders. It is now a great pleasure and honour to announce that we will be holding the first National Speech Language Pathology conference in Malta on 2-3 February 2023. ASLP is collaborating with the Speech Language Centre, within Primary HealthCare. This conference is part of a larger project entitled ‘The Role and Contribution of the Speech Language Pathologist in Society’, which was funded by the Voluntary Organisations Projects Scheme, managed by the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector. We are thrilled to organise this event and the Organising Committee has been working on the planning of this conference for several months to ensure a varied and interesting programme.

We invite you to grab this opportunity to join us on 2-3 February 2023 to share your research, clinical practice, learn and network with colleagues. We all stand to learn from each other, no matter how experienced we are. So I strongly encourage you to join us at the conference. I also encourage you to submit your abstract to share your work!