<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b>CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT </b></div><div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b><img width="117" height="42" src="file://localhost/Users/edyveneziano/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025"></b></div><div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#F9192D"><b>I</b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#F9192D"><b>nternational Conference
ComSym 2011:</b></font></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b>Communicative and symbolic
behaviors in children with autism:</b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b>Functional specificities
and conditions of appearance</b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div> <div align="" style="text-align: center;"><b>Paris, France, 4-5 February
2011</b></div> <div align=""> </div> <div align="">Children with autism are often characterized by their
deficits. Thus, their poor communication, their lack of pretend play and/or
imitation, their scarce understanding of others’ mental states, are considered
as characteristic features of their pathology. Although, this remains generally
true, facts are far from being so neat and clear-cut. Scientific observation of family videos and studies of children in supporting interactional
contexts have shown that many children with autism do present some capacities
in the above domains. And therapists working with them observe these capacities
in their everyday practices. </div> <div align="">The aim of this conference is to provide a more
precise understanding of the specificities of communicative and symbolic
behaviors of children with autism, as well as to characterize under which
conditions and how they occur, allowing to delineate their particular
developmental profiles in comparison with that of typically developing
children. Within this perspective, analyses that take into account the dynamics
of interaction between partners will be emphasized. From a methodological standpoint,
this conference will present a diversity of approaches (case studies,
experimental studies, observation in controlled, semi-controlled or natural
situations). Such diversity as well as the sharing of knowledge and experience
between therapists and researchers, are expected to stimulate innovative
research and intervention practices in the field.</div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""><b>The conference will focus on the following topics:</b></div> <div align="">1.
The bases of communication: Emotion and sensorimotor behaviors</div> <div align="">2.
Indicators of implicit Theory of Mind </div> <div align="">3.
Symbolic abilities </div> <div>4. Language and communication</div> <div> </div> <div align=""><b>Scientific organizers of
the Conference: </b></div> <div align="">Laurent Danon-Boileau (Université Paris Descartes, CNRS UMR 7114,
MoDyCo)</div> <div align="">Marie-Hélène Plumet (Université Paris Descartes – INSERM U663)</div> <div align="">Edy Veneziano (Université Paris Descartes, CNRS UMR 7114, MoDyCo)</div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""><b>Programmed Speakers </b></div> <div align="">Melissa Allen (Lancaster University, UK)</div> <div align="">Tony Charman (University of London, UK)</div> <div align="">Dorota Chadzynski (Centre d’Education, Paris)</div> <div align="">Laurent Danon Boileau (Université Paris Descartes - CNRS)</div> <div align="">Bruno Gepner (CH Montperrin,
Aix-en-Provence, chercheur associé CNRS ,
Aix-Marseille)</div> <div align="">Peter Hobson (University College London,
UK)</div> <div align="">Jessica Hobson (University
College London, UK)</div> <div align="">Chris Jarrold (Bristol
University, UK)</div> <div align="">Mary-Annick Morel
(Université Paris3) </div> <div align="">Peter C. Mundy (UC Davis
M.I.N.D Institute, USA)</div> <div align="">Tom Muskett (University of
Sheffield, UK)</div> <div align="">Jacqueline Nadel (Centre Emotion-CNRS - Paris)</div> <div align="">Marie-Hélène Plumet (Université Paris Descartes - INSERM)</div> <div align="">Patricia Prelock (University
of Vermont, USA)</div> <div align="">Vasudevi Reddy (University of Portsmouth, UK)</div> <div align="">Helen Tager-Flusberg (Boston University, USA)</div> <div align="">Bernard Touati (Centre Alfred Binet, Paris) </div> <div align="">Edy Veneziano (Université Paris Descartes -
CNRS)</div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#F9192D">A Call for posters can be found in the conference website:</font></b> </div><div align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4108FD"><b><a href="http://lewebpedagogique.com/comsym2011/">http://lewebpedagogique.com/comsym2011/</a></b></font></div> <div align=""><b>Submission Deadline: October 1st 2010</b></div> <div align=""><b> </b></div> <b>Scientific
Committee</b><div align="">Jean Louis Adrien (Université Paris Descartes), C. Barthélemy (INSERM,
CHRU Tours), Jill Boucher (City University London, UK), Laurent Danon Boileau
(Université Paris Descartes-CNRS), Claire Hughes (Cambridge University,
UK), Françoise Moggio (Centre Alfred Binet, Paris), Jacqueline Nadel (Centre Emotion-CNRS,
Paris), Elinor Ochs (UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA, USA), Marie Hélène Plumet (Université Paris
Descartes-INSERM), Bernadette Rogé (Université de Toulouse), Carole Tardif
(Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I-Psyclé), Colwyn Trevarthen (Edinburgh University, UK), Edy
Veneziano (Université Paris Descartes-CNRS).</div> <div> </div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""><b>For all information or registration:</b></div> <div align="">Mme Catherine Rumen</div> <div align="">AxentPro, 53 av
Secrétan, 75019 PARIS, France</div> <div align=""><b>email: <a href="mailto:infocomsym2011@orange.fr">infocomsym2011@orange.fr</a> </b></div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""><b>Website: <a href="http://lewebpedagogique.com/comsym2011/">http://lewebpedagogique.com/comsym2011/</a></b></div> <div align=""><b> </b></div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""> </div> <div align=""> </div></div></body></html>
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