Executive Committee

The role of the IASCL Executive Committee is to run our Association. There are 11 ex-officio members and 15 elected members. 

First off, more than half of the ex-officio members are part of the Board. They do the "daily" work, so to speak. The immediate Past President is also an ex-officio member (post held by Annick De Houwer, 2024-2027). The Child Language Bulletin editor, appointed by the President, likewise is an ex-officio member. The editors of the IASCL-affiliated journals First Language and the Journal of Child Language are the last 3 ex-officio members (currently, respectively: Chloe Marshall, Elma Blom, and Melanie Soderstrom). 

The Board is helped by 15 elected members. These elected members are the pool of possible members for the working Committees of IASCL. These include the following committees:

• Nominating and Appointing Committee (chaired by an elected member appointed by the President): responsible for the preparation of the ratification of new Board Members and for the election of new Executive Committee members

• Roger Brown Committee (chaired by the President): responsible for eliciting nominations for and selecting the winner of the Roger Brown Award 

• Early Career Award Committee (chaired by the Vice President): responsible for eliciting nominations for and selecting the winner of the Early Career Award

• Travel Award Committee (chaired by the President): responsible for soliciting applications for and selecting recipients of Travel Awards to attend the tri-annual IASCL Congress

Additional Committees may be formed as needed.  

Apart from serving on a working Committee, elected members may be asked to vote on a range of issues in the three years between Business Meetings. Any member of the Executive Committee can ask for an issue to be voted on, but only elected members have voting privileges. At the initiative of the Nominating and Appointing Committee, elected Executive Committee members play an important role in deciding which nominations for Board members are put forward for ratification by the membership.

The elected members of the Executive Committee for the period 2024-2027 are: