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Over the past month, a committee of VASTA members came together and collaborated to form a Task Force in order to examine the impact of COVID-19 on voice & speech training and to develop best practices for instruction.

This collaboration yielded this white paper.

While this document was developed to assist our members in academia, I believe that it can also offer some guidance to those members in freelance or clinical practice.

The Nominating Committee is pleased to announce two new VASTA Board members...

VASTA's official statement against racist practices and the recent events in the USA.

ATHE is a multidisciplinary International Conference, held annually for 5 or 6 days in early August. This year it is being held online July 20 - Aug 1.

If you have been craving connection and collaboration as I have during this epoch of confinement, ATHE will a wonderful answer to that yearning.

Registration for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference is now open!

ATHE will hold its 2020 conference virtually over July 20-25th and July 27-August 1st.

VASTA and Routledge Press are excited to announce the release of The History of Voice Pedagogy.

Introducing Knight-Thompson Speechworks approach to clear speech and accent training. 8 x 1-hour sessions to provide you with the tools and techniques to create and communicate with flexibility and specificity in whatever accent you choose to acquire.

A six-day Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshop in the skills of accent acquisition, including vocal tract posture, prosody, and the use of narrow transcription to describe characteristic sounds.

We strongly recommend taking our Phonetics Intensive before taking Experiencing Accents:

https://ktspeechwork.org/phonetics-intensive/

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