About the conference

The conference focuses on the multimodal assessment of speech, language, and reading for medical diagnostics and interventions. It brings together researchers and clinicians to explore advances in multimodal mechanisms and assessment, including reading, across settings such as the lab, the clinic, and patient-doctor interactions. With growing emphasis on integrating multimodal data (neurophysiology, peripheral physiology, speech, eye movements, and other visual language markers), the event looks at how novel methods and computational tools are changing clinical assessment, as well as how speech, text, and visual means support medical documentation.

The aim is to identify what is needed for more accurate diagnoses and more effective interventions in developmental disorders (e.g. dyslexia, autism, ADHD), psychiatric disorders (e.g. psychosis, depression, suicidality), and neurocognitive disorders (e.g. dementia, Parkinson’s disease, stroke recovery), as well as in medical documentation. Attendees will take part in poster and plenary presentations and discussions covering new methodologies, real-world clinical applications, and future directions of AI-powered, multimodal evaluation of speech, language, and reading in (pre)clinical populations.