ACADEMY OF APHASIA

APPLICATION FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

Thank you for your interest in associate membership to the Academy of Aphasia. Associate membership shall be open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior investigators who are actively interested in brain-language relations and language disorders resulting from brain disease but who have not yet met the eligibility requirements for regular membership. Associate membership does not require that the applicant has published any papers. Applicants for associate membership must be sponsored by one member of the Academy of Aphasia.

The application for associate membership is attached below. Please complete the form and identify one Academy member who has agreed to sponsor your application. Include his/her contact information in the application. Please email the application to the Chair of the Membership Committee (Sheila Blumstein: Sheila_Blumstein@brown.edu ). The Membership Committee prefers that CV's not be submitted. However, a short biosketch or list of pertinent publications and presentations may be substituted for page 2. Application materials should be submitted by August 3, 2007.

General information about Associate Membership:

a. Application, Dues and Application Deadline. Membership will be by application which must be accompanied by a letter from one (1) member of the Academy in good standing attesting to the individual's interest in brain-language relations, aphasia and/or kindred disorders. Unlike full membership, Associate Membership does not require that the applicant have yet published any papers in the area.

Associate Members will pay annual dues set at 50% of regular membership dues.

The application deadline for Associate Membership will be set at the time dues statements are sent out to regular members. A check (or credit card charge) is to be submitted with the application.

Associate membership will be approved by the Board of Governors on recommendation of the Chair of the Membership Committee. The Chair of the Membership Committee will announce the new Associate Members at the annual business meeting but Associate Membership does not require the full vote of the membership.

b. Registration Fees for Annual Meeting. Registration Fees for the annual meetings

will list two levels of payment: (1) Members and Non-student Associate Members - who will pay the full registration fee. (2) Students and Associate Members who are students - who will both pay the same reduced fee.* (* For this purpose Postdoctoral Fellows/Trainees are NOT considered students.)

c. Attendance to Business Meetings. Associate Members will not attend the

Business Meetings of the Academy, nor will they be voting members. Associate Members will, however, receive all mailings and meeting announcements as do regular members.

d. Duration of Associate Membership. Associate Members may apply for full membership whenever they feel they have met the requirements. When ready they will apply following the procedures as outlined for application as a regular member. There is no set time for this application nor is there any upper limit on how long an individual may remain an Associate Member.