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Free subjects and posters

BASES TO PRESENT/DISPLAY FREE SUBJECTS AND POSTERS

The III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION - LATIN AMERICA welcomes all articles contributing to the development of the knowledge of subjects related to augmentative and alternative communication, inclusion, upheavals of the communication and other related subjects.

Any professional, institution or organization can present/display works or articles he created on the subjects above proposed, to be presented/displayed in oral form or to be exhibited in poster form during the Conference.

1. The organizations or institutions should have at least one person (relator). Those coming in a non-institutional capacity, but rather on their own private decision shall not come in a 4-member-team/authors or less.

2. The articles can be unpublished or not. Those that have been previously published, even in electronic form, will have to mention in what medium they were published.

3. The Conference will have the authority to publish those articles and illustrations that have been selected by the scientific committee.

4. It could be that the Scientific Committee will ask for additional data to the work presented/displayed according to is each case. The authors will provide the available data at a convenient time.

5. All the subjects that include videos or photographies of people must include a declaration of consent of the patients or its proxies, as well as of the institution where they are treated, according to the circumstances.

6. The works must not have more than 2 years previous to the Conference.

7. The authors are the only people in charge of the contents of their works. The Organization of the Conference does not take responsibility for copying other authors, partially or totally.

8. The proposals will be received by order of reception from 03/01/07 to 30/04/07, provided there be space available, for each type of presentation (oral or poster form).

The articles must show the following characteristics.

1. The paper Hill have 2 parts: The summary, and the multimedia presentation, which will be send according to the established chronogram.

2. In order to present/display the summary, the FORM N° 1 will be filled up where they are required: title, authors (emphasize the relator or exhibitor), institution and locality where the work was made. Also it will have to contain: Introduction, Objectives, Material, Methodology, Result and Conclusions, without exceeding 250 words, and sent by e-mail to vihugo81@hotmail.com, in an attached text file in Microsoft Word XP or later versions.

3. The authors of the subjects that have been selected will send in advance their multimedia presentation; they will be informed in time where the will have to send it, in brown envelope (manila). The presentation will have to be designed in Microsoft Power Point or Macromedia Flash and recorded in a CD.

4. Once they have been received, the works will not be susceptible to later changes.

5. The relator/author will necessarily have to be enrolled in the Conference.

6. Day and hour of the lecture/exhibition will be established. The duration of presentation will be of 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for the discussion, remarks and questions.

7. Each author can present/display up to two works.

The author’s rights

The order of authors’ names reflects only the preference of the authors. Each author must have participated in the plan of the work, contributed in his execution, and participated in the writing of the article. Each author must assume the responsibility of the entire article.

Qualification of articles

The articles will be selected by the scientific committee and then sent to the jury designated by the committee for their evaluation and acceptance. The presentation of free subjects is not subject to contest; nevertheless to reward the interest of the authors, the first and second articles selected between will become creditors to recognition and the respective certification. If the authors were members of a private team, the certification will be given to each one of them; in case of institutions and organizations, it will be given only in the name of the organization.

Criteria of qualification

The qualification will be made at two levels. the first qualification will be granted by a jury who will grant 50 % of the total; the second qualification will attribute the other 50% and will be given by the participants to the conference who at the end of the presentation of the free subjects will be asked to fill up a questionnaire with a subjective scale of qualification.

The following aspects will be taken into account:

-  Audio-visual component

- Dissertation

- Knowledge of the subject

- Level of interest of the subject

1. The work will consist of 2 parts: The summary and the exhibition of poster.

2. In order to present the summary, the FORM N° 1 will be filled up where required: title, authors, institution and locality where the work was made. Also it will have to contain: Introduction, Objectives, Material, Methodology, Result and Conclusions, without exceeding 250 words, and sent by e-mail to vihugo81@hotmail.com, in an attached text file in Microsoft Word XP or later versions.

3. Poster characteristics

-     It must include the title of the work and the names of the authors in clear and easily visible letter.

-   In the content the objectives, materials, methods, results and conclusions must be mentioned, briefly and in a concrete way.

-  Graphics, illustrations and photographies required for the presentation, must be sequentially distributed in relation to ítems mentioned with their respective legend.

-    Please, use light material, or fabric, photographic paper or paper for plotting, arranging this material in its superior and inferior ends with rods, so that it be possible to unfold and hang it.

-     Dimensions: 1,5 x 0.90 meters.

4. Assistants will help for the installing and un-installing of poster, but that will be exclusive responsibility of the author(s). The retirement of poster will be scheduled time by the Organizing Committee.

5. The Organizing Commission does not take responsibility for occasional damages or losses that the posters could undergo.

NOTE: The rights of literary property

The Conference will automatically obtain the permission for its publication. The authors of the article must sign their acceptance at the time of presenting/displaying the summary.

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