Another exciting initiative announced this week is the news that the Samoan Language Teachers Association (FAGASA) and the Maori Language Commission have joined forces to support gagana Samoa and te reo Maori.

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Baby boomers facing the possibility of neurological disorders, strokes and accident trauma contribute to the positive job trend, says Lemmietta McNeilly, chief staff officer of speech-language pathology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Whole Language still has defenders today, particularly the National Education Association.

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After all, Vietnam's next big international engagement is to host meetings of the regional club, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (official language: English).

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The Romanian language version of the book is available at the website of the Association of Independent Press of Moldova.

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According to the Association of Graduate Recruiters, those who hire British graduates attach little importance to language skills in general.

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They respond by citing membership-satisfaction polls and insist that those who complain "are being frightened by inflammatory language" about rare occurrences, in the words of Susan Pisano, spokeswoman for the American Association of Health Plans.

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For spoken language interpreting, interpreters often join ATA as well as specialized associations, such as the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators for court interpreting, and the International Medical Interpreters Association for healthcare interpreting.

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His experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association.

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