The 2025 ASHA Convention, being held in Washington, D.C., November 20–22, 2025, is shaping up to be an extraordinary event—and for good reason! This year is our Association’s Centennial Anniversary, an opportunity to be proud of our legacy and a powerful reminder of how far we've come. As we gather in Washington, D.C. to celebrate a century of discovery, innovation, and impact, we'll also reflect on how much the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology have progressed.

Started in 1925 as a vision of 25 individuals, ASHA has grown into an organization of more than 200,000 healthcare professionals, scientists, teachers, students, advocates, and global affiliates. Over this century, our professions have birthed groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of communication, hearing, swallowing, balance, and more. These insights have helped millions, from birth to end-of-life, and continue to influence the future of our work.

While we celebrate these contributions, the journey of discovery, knowledge, and service continues. There is no time better than this milestone year for Envisioning Possibilities for the Future and we want YOU to be a part of the journey.

The 2025 ASHA Convention will feature a comprehensive and diverse education program, carefully curated by 66 Topic Chairs, plus two Local Hosts, who are all expert audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech and hearing scientists. Their work, supported by nearly 700 Topic Area Reviewers, will bring you content from over 33 thoughtfully selected Topic Areas. Together, we’ll dive into a vast range of sessions that explore the most pressing topics of today while envisioning what lies ahead for the next century of audiology and speech-language pathology.

As the Call for Papers launches, we are especially looking for proposals that focus on one of these three key pillars to include in our themed Centennial Series of sessions:

• Legacy: Proposals that highlight the strong foundational elements of our practice and knowledge base, establishing their relevance today, and envisioning possibilities for the future that are built on these foundations.
• Transformational: Proposals that emphasize strong qualitative or quantitative evidence, in addition to evidence- based practices and the dissemination of implementation strategies, which substantiate measurable outcomes by utilizing appropriate tools that facilitate envisioning future possibilities.
• Landmark: Proposals that present cutting-edge discoveries in basic and clinical science innovations that hold the potential to launch the next era of excellence in our field. By harnessing new knowledge, identifying needs, and highlighting opportunities, these sessions will help the community envision possibilities for the future.

We anticipate that the Centennial Series of sessions will spark exciting cross-disciplinary dialogue across these three pillars and will focus on some of the most critical current topics in a forward-thinking way.

A new addition to the Topic Areas for the 2025 Convention is Innovations in Technology, developed to encompass ideas, practices, and tools adjacent to the broad and expanding areas of artificial intelligence that have the potential of influencing everything we do in the classroom, the laboratory, and the clinic. Similarly, interprofessional collaboration/education will continue to be a potent force in propagating scientific discovery and innovative clinical service delivery. Several Topic Area committees are collaborating with colleagues from adjacent disciplines and practice areas to ensure that interprofessional practices incorporate the full spectrum of possibilities for our professions’ future. Finally, inclusive education and neuroaffirming practice is woven throughout each topic area to ensure continued focus on addressing and mitigating the impact of social disparities on service delivery within our communities.

Our history, dedication, and relentless pursuit of "making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all," will be highlighted at the 2025 ASHA Convention. Our centennial year is not just a time to look back—it's a time to look forward and to imagine endless possibilities for the future of our professions. Together we will be Envisioning Possibilities for the Future, and celebrating our collective professional achievements and advancements while honoring our shared history.

The Call for Papers for this year’s convention will be open February 20, 2025–April 3, 2025. We encourage you to submit your work, share your innovations, and contribute to the exciting conversations that will shape the next 100 years of our professions.

We can’t wait to see you in Washington, D.C.!

Your 2025 Convention Program Committee Chairs,