Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop - Call for Posters

[Sharon Armon-Lotem]

Anat Shalom,

Thanks for showing interest in the workshop.

We hope to finalize the program by the end of the month and post it. I shall
be happy to send you a copy.

Best

Sharon

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Anat Prior <anat.prior at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Sharon Shalom,
>
> I'm a new faculty member in the department of Learning Disabitilies in
> Haifa, and was very interested to receive word of the workshop you are
> organizing. I tried following the link you provided, but apparently it isn't
> functional. Do you have a tentative program for the workshop yet? If so,
> would you be so kind as to send it to me?
>
> Many thanks,
> Anat Prior
>
>   On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sharon Armon-Lotem <
> sharon.armonlotem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop -
>> Call for Posters
>>
>> February 1-5, 2009
>>
>> Institute for Advanced Study, the Hebrew University, Israel
>>
>> The large numbers of bilinguals in the world and widespread migrations
>> of the 1990s, have led to dramatic increases in the number of children
>> being raised in multilingual communities. Typically developing (TD)
>> bilinguals often look like the children with Specific Language
>> Impairement (SLI), creating methodological and clinical diagnostic
>> confounds. Medical, language and educational professionals have
>> limited test instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant
>> children from those who will eventually catch up to their monolingual
>> peers. As a result, folk wisdom reigns, often carrying the view that
>> bilingual children with language disorders should be educated in a
>> single language, usually not the language of the home. In recent
>> years, several research groups have taken upon themselves to
>> disentangle bilingualism and SLI by establishing the relative
>> contribution of the each to impaired language performance.
>>
>> Invited Speakers include:
>> •       Galit Adam, Tel Aviv University
>> •       Anne Baker, University of Amsterdam
>> •       Isabelle Barriere, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
>> •       Lisa Bedore, University of Texas
>> •       Naama Friedmann, Tel Aviv University
>> •       Natalia Gagarina, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
>> •       Peggy F. Jacobson, St. John's University
>> •       Jan de Jong, University of Amsterdam
>> •       Theo Marinis, University of Reading
>> •       Juergen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg/University of Calgary
>> •       Johanna Paradis, University of Alberta
>> •       Carol Pfaff, Freie Universität Berlin
>> •       Dorit Ravid, Tel Aviv University
>> •       Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
>> •       Monika Rothweiler, University of Hamburg
>> •       Jeannette Schaeffer, Ben Gurion University
>> •       Petra Schulz, University of Frankfurt
>> •       Elin Thordardottir, McGill University
>> •       Ianthi Tsimpli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
>> •       Joel Walters, Bar Ilan University
>> •       Bencie Woll, University College London
>>
>>
>> Posters are invited for a poster session on February 4th
>>
>> Submissions should include:
>>
>> 1. A cover page with the title of the poster, all authors' names and
>> affiliations, and contact information of the 1st author (postal
>> address, email address, telephone).
>> 2. A one-page abstract (Times New Roman 12 font), with an optional
>> second page for examples, data and references. No identity properties
>> of the author should be found on the abstract page(s). Please center
>> title of the presentation at the top.
>>
>> Cover page and abstract must be submitted electronically to
>> bisli.workshop at gmail.com in PDF or word format. In the subject line of
>> the email please state ''Abstract BISLI'' and the first author's last
>> name.
>>
>> All authors will be invited to submit their papers for online
>> proceedings.
>>
>> The deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2008
>> Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2008.
>>
>> There is no registration fee, but you must register by January 10,
>> 2008 at www.as.huji.ac.il/workshops/isf/biligualism/. In addition,
>> please send an email with your name and affiliation to
>> bisli.workshop at gmail.com so we know how many to expect. In the subject
>> line of the email please state ''Registration BISLI''.
>>
>>
>> Organizing Committee:
>>
>> Sharon Armon-Lotem
>> Jonathan Fine
>> Joel Walters
>>
>> The workshop is organized by the English Department and Gonda
>> Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University with
>> the generous support of the Institute for Advanced Study at The Hebrew
>> University and the Israel Science Foundation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Anat Prior, PhD
> Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center
> for the Study of Learning Disabilities
> Department of Learning Disabilities
> Faculty of Education
> Haifa University
> Haifa, Israel
>
> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aprior/
>
> >
>


-- 
Dr. Sharon Armon-Lotem
The Department of English
and the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel

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