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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>**********CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT***************************<br>
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Sign Language Acquisition: Typical and Atypical Development<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Wednesday, April 23, 2003 (11:30 - 17:30) <br>
Pre-conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of SRCD, Tampa, Florida<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Coordinators:<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jenny Singleton, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign <br>
Esther Dromi, Tel Aviv University <br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Pre-conference Program:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Mayberry, McGill
University, Canada<br>
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Anne Baker, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></b><br>
Caregiver-child interaction in deaf signing families<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Richard P. Meier, University of Texas at
Austin, USA</span></b><br>
Early sign language acquisition<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Nini Hoiting, Royal Institute for the Deaf
"H.D. Guyot", Netherlands</span></b><br>
Acquisition of early sign vocabulary in deaf children and their parents<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Brenda Schick, University of Colorado, USA
(with Peter DeVilliers, Robert Hoffmeister, Jill DeVilliers</span></b>)<br>
Theory of Mind in child signers<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Elissa Newport, University of Rochester, USA<br>
</span></b>Variations in sign language input<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bencie Woll, City University, London, England<br>
</span></b>Sign language acquisition by atypical learners<br>
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Wrap-up Discussion:<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Dan Slobin, Univ. of California, Berkeley,
USA<br>
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</span></font><b><i><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>If you would like to be listed
in our mailing list, please e-mail to Jenny Singleton <singletn@uiuc.edu></span></font></i></b><i><font
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Further information will be disseminated soon regarding registration procedures
and fees for this Pre-Conference.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>For SRCD meeting (April 24-27) information
please see </span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.srcd.org/biennial.html">www.srcd.org/biennial.html</a></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Professor Esther Dromi <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Human Development and Education<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>email: <a href="mailto:dromi@post.tau.ac.il">dromi@post.tau.ac.il</a></span></font><font
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