Sign Language meeting before SRCD

[Brian MacWhinney]

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Sign Language Acquisition: Typical and Atypical Development
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 (11:30 - 17:30)
Pre-conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of SRCD, Tampa,
Florida

Coordinators:
Jenny Singleton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Esther Dromi, Tel Aviv University

Pre-conference Program:

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Mayberry, McGill University, Canada

Anne Baker, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Caregiver-child interaction in deaf signing families

Richard P. Meier, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Early sign language acquisition

Nini Hoiting, Royal Institute for the Deaf "H.D. Guyot", Netherlands
Acquisition of early sign vocabulary in deaf children and their parents

Brenda Schick, University of Colorado, USA (with Peter DeVilliers, Robert
Hoffmeister, Jill DeVilliers)
Theory of Mind in child signers

Elissa Newport, University of Rochester, USA
Variations in sign language input

Bencie Woll, City University, London, England
Sign language acquisition by atypical learners

Wrap-up Discussion:
Dan Slobin, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA


If you would like to be listed in our mailing list, please e-mail to Jenny
Singleton <singletn at uiuc.edu>

Further information will be disseminated soon regarding registration
procedures and fees for this Pre-Conference.

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For SRCD meeting (April 24-27) information please see
www.srcd.org/biennial.html

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Professor Esther Dromi
Human Development and Education
School of Education
email: dromi at post.tau.ac.il