40th annual meeting
October 20-22, 2002
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th & 35th Streets)
New York, New York
REGISTRATION

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Registration fees* 

BEFORE OR ON September 12, 2002 
	Members			190 US $ 		Students           100 US $ 			$
	Non-Members		220 US $ 		Students           					$

AFTER  September 12, 2002
	Members 			230 US $ 		Students	140 US $ 			$
	Non-Members 		260 US $ 		Students					$
										Total			$

*The registration fees include meeting space, sandwich lunch on Sunday, coffee breaks, Monday reception foods.
We are happy to make arrangements for kosher meals if notified by Sept. 12.

LUNCHEON BUFFET FEE

A buffet luncheon will be served on Monday, October 21.  The cost is $30 per person.  It will be possible to hear the Luncheon Speaker without eating (and paying for) the luncheon.  Reservations are due with Conference Registration.
						 x 30 US $	=		Total			$
					(# persons)
			Grand Total		$

Payment

	 Check 				Credit Card Type (Visa, MasterCard) 			
payable to  the	Academy of Aphasia		Name on card 						
MAIL TO :	Administrative Office		ACC # 							
		C/o Luci Varian			Exp. Date 						
		150 Muir (126-S)		Signature						
		Martinez, CA 94553 USA

FOR STUDENT: Name of University or College 							
•	Registrant is a full time student in (department) 							
•	Signature of Department Chair 									
•	Name of Department Chair 										
OTHER INFORMATION

We invite you to attend the 40th annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, taking place this year in vibrant New York City.  October is a great time to be in New York, and the conference site is right in the
middle of things, so do join us for our 40th gathering.

The Conference Site

We will hold all meeting sessions in Manhattan at the City University of New York (pronounced /kyuni/) Graduate School and University Center (GSUC), which is virtually across the street from the Empire State Building, a few blocks from Pennsylvania Station, and 10 blocks from Grand Central Station.

One enters the building on Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Sts. (Note the preserved Art Deco architecture from when the building housed B. Altmans department store). We meet in the Prochansky Auditorium, on the C (Concourse) floor, one floor down from the entrance floor. 

The neighborhood is a safe and reasonable one by NYC standards. In a 5-block radius there are numerous restaurants ranging from fast-food through buffet to nicer ones of many cuisines, with a focus in several nearby blocks on Korean cuisine. All these restaurants will be open on Monday and Tuesday; we include Sunday lunch  in the registration fee since there are fewer open then.  We are also within blocks of the Garment District, and a 20-minute walk from the half-price TCKTS booth for those interested in Broadway and off-Broadway shows.

HOTELS

Near the Graduate Center there are numerous small hotels, and not a few larger ones. We have made arrangements for rooms at a moderate one (the Wolcott Hotel, at 4 West 31st St., just west of Fifth Avenue), and at a fancier one (the Doral Park Avenue Hotel, on Park Avenue between 38th and 39th Sts.), 6 blocks from the Graduate Center. You may be able to do better by searching any of a number of websites (e.g. the New York Today Section of the New York Times website), but these hotels are the best of the ones we've checked out.

For the Wolcott Hotel (http://www.wolcott.com, tel.: 212 268 2900, refer to booking code 1429. Reservations should be made sooner rather than later.  The costs up until Sept. 19th, are $120 per night for a single or a double, $130 a night for a junior suite (no kitchen but a 'living room'), and $140 a night for a triple. The lobby is relatively ornate (coffee and muffins served there mornings); the rooms serviceable. The rooms do have Internet access for a fee, externally-accessible voice-mail, and 4 pieces of exercise equipment in a 'fitness center'. They do not have 'non-smoking' rooms, but the room I stayed in, and the others I visited, did not smell of smoke, nor is there smoking in the lobby (as in any public space without a
bar in NYC).

The Doral Park Avenue Hotel (www.DoralParkAve.com, 212 973 2407) is holding 30 rooms for us at this time. Doubles and singles are $229 a night.

For the possibility of truly inexpensive student accommodations at a greater distance from the conference site, contact Hia Datta (hdatta@gc.cuny.edu) who will try to locate other doctoral students in the GSUC program who might have an extra bed or room on their floors for a person in a sleeping bag.