Katharine G. Butler Symposium, February 22-23, 2002

[Silliman, Elaine]

The Specialty Board on Child Language and the Special Interest Division 1:
Language Learning and Education of the American Speech-Language- Hearing
Association are jointly sponsoring the first Katharine G. Butler Symposium
on Child Language. The purpose of this symposium, to be held in San Jose,
California, is to honor Dr. Butler's lifetime of commitment in the area of
Child Language. A banquet in her honor on Saturday evening, February 23,
2002 will culminate the symposium.

Presenters:
Elizabeth Bates, Ph.D. -- Professor of Cognitive Science, Professor of
Psychology and Director of the Center for Research in Language at University
of California at San Diego.  Dr. Bates is interested in neural systems
supporting language in humans while carrying out their earlier
non-linguistic functions.  She purports the need for a new way of thinking
about language evolution and language development in the human brain, which
represents a dynamic, distributed, plastic approach.
Virginia Berninger, Ph.D. -- Professor of Educational Psychology and
Director of the NICHD-funded Multidisciplinary Learning Disability Center,
Literacy Trek Longitudinal Study, and the Write Stuff Intervention Project
at the University of Washington.  Among her interests is the integration of
brain imaging, family genetics, and treatment research.  She has constructed
a 3-tier model to make the case that early intervention is indicated for all
at-risk readers and continuing intervention is necessary for persisting
difficulties.
Catherine Snow, Ph.D. -- Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Her research interests include
children's language development as influenced by interaction with adults in
home and preschool settings, literacy development as related to language
skills as influenced by home and school factors, and issues related to the
acquisition of English oral and literacy skills by language minority
children.
Shirley Brice Heath, Ph.D., -- Professor of Linguistics and English at
Stanford University. A linguistic anthropologist, Dr. Heath's research has
centered on the out-of-school lives of young people in subordinated
communities.  Key themes in her work are adolescents' own language and
symbolic representations of themselves, as well as their leadership and
initiative in identifying and solving what they see as community problems.

This symposium will combine the presentations with small group discussions
that will address specific questions.

Registration
Early registration by 1/18/02 -- $165.00
Registration after 1/18/02 -- $185.00
Banquet in honor of Dr. Butler -- $45.00
To register, contact:
Ellen Schoch (Specialty Board on Child Language) at (973) 275-2825 or
e-mail: schochel at shu.edu <mailto:schochel at shu.edu>

A PDF registration form is available at:
http://education.wichita.edu/cds/faculty/apel/butler_symposium.htm
<http://education.wichita.edu/cds/faculty/apel/butler_symposium.htm>

Hotel
The symposium will be held at the beautiful and elegant Fairmont Hotel in
San Jose, CA. To take advantage of our special rate, please reserve your
room by 1/18/2002 by calling
1-800-346-5550. The Fairmont is located at 170 S. Market Street, San Jose,
CA.

SPECIAL RATE: $139.00 single/double.
$25.00 per additional person.

Elaine R. Silliman, Ph.D.
Professor
Communication Sciences & Disorders &
Cognitive & Neural Sciences
University of South Florida
PCD 4021C
Tampa, FL 33620
Voice mail: (813) 974-9812
Fax: (813) 974-0822/8421
E-mail: silliman at chuma1.cas.usf.edu