<div dir="ltr"><div>Sharon Shalom, </div>
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<div>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? </div>
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<div>Many thanks, </div>
<div>Anat Prior<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sharon Armon-Lotem <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharon.armonlotem@gmail.com">sharon.armonlotem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop -<br>Call for Posters<br><br>February 1-5, 2009<br>
<br>Institute for Advanced Study, the Hebrew University, Israel<br><br>The large numbers of bilinguals in the world and widespread migrations<br>of the 1990s, have led to dramatic increases in the number of children<br>being raised in multilingual communities. Typically developing (TD)<br>
bilinguals often look like the children with Specific Language<br>Impairement (SLI), creating methodological and clinical diagnostic<br>confounds. Medical, language and educational professionals have<br>limited test instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant<br>
children from those who will eventually catch up to their monolingual<br>peers. As a result, folk wisdom reigns, often carrying the view that<br>bilingual children with language disorders should be educated in a<br>single language, usually not the language of the home. In recent<br>
years, several research groups have taken upon themselves to<br>disentangle bilingualism and SLI by establishing the relative<br>contribution of the each to impaired language performance.<br><br>Invited Speakers include:<br>
Galit Adam, Tel Aviv University<br> Anne Baker, University of Amsterdam<br> Isabelle Barriere, Brooklyn College (CUNY)<br> Lisa Bedore, University of Texas<br> Naama Friedmann, Tel Aviv University<br>
Natalia Gagarina, Zentrum fόr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)<br> Peggy F. Jacobson, St. John's University<br> Jan de Jong, University of Amsterdam<br> Theo Marinis, University of Reading<br>
Juergen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg/University of Calgary<br> Johanna Paradis, University of Alberta<br> Carol Pfaff, Freie Universitδt Berlin<br> Dorit Ravid, Tel Aviv University<br> Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts<br>
Monika Rothweiler, University of Hamburg<br> Jeannette Schaeffer, Ben Gurion University<br> Petra Schulz, University of Frankfurt<br> Elin Thordardottir, McGill University<br> Ianthi Tsimpli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<br>
Joel Walters, Bar Ilan University<br> Bencie Woll, University College London<br><br><br>Posters are invited for a poster session on February 4th<br><br>Submissions should include:<br><br>1. A cover page with the title of the poster, all authors' names and<br>
affiliations, and contact information of the 1st author (postal<br>address, email address, telephone).<br>2. A one-page abstract (Times New Roman 12 font), with an optional<br>second page for examples, data and references. No identity properties<br>
of the author should be found on the abstract page(s). Please center<br>title of the presentation at the top.<br><br>Cover page and abstract must be submitted electronically to<br><a href="mailto:bisli.workshop@gmail.com">bisli.workshop@gmail.com</a> in PDF or word format. In the subject line of<br>
the email please state ''Abstract BISLI'' and the first author's last<br>name.<br><br>All authors will be invited to submit their papers for online<br>proceedings.<br><br>The deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2008<br>
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2008.<br><br>There is no registration fee, but you must register by January 10,<br>2008 at <a href="http://www.as.huji.ac.il/workshops/isf/biligualism/" target="_blank">www.as.huji.ac.il/workshops/isf/biligualism/</a>. In addition,<br>
please send an email with your name and affiliation to<br><a href="mailto:bisli.workshop@gmail.com">bisli.workshop@gmail.com</a> so we know how many to expect. In the subject<br>line of the email please state ''Registration BISLI''.<br>
<br><br>Organizing Committee:<br><br>Sharon Armon-Lotem<br>Jonathan Fine<br>Joel Walters<br><br>The workshop is organized by the English Department and Gonda<br>Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University with<br>
the generous support of the Institute for Advanced Study at The Hebrew<br>University and the Israel Science Foundation.<br><br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Anat Prior, PhD<br>Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center<br>for the Study of Learning Disabilities<br>Department of Learning Disabilities<br>Faculty of Education<br>Haifa University<br>
Haifa, Israel<br><br><a href="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aprior/">http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aprior/</a><br></div>
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