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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" color="#FF0000"><b>Second call for papers for the next Child Language Seminar</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">CLS 2011 will be held at Newcastle University, 13<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> & 14<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> June 2011 (with registration and wine reception on the evening of the
12<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> of June). </font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The Child Language Seminar (CLS) is an interdisciplinary conference with a long tradition which attracts a diverse international audience of, among others, psychologists, linguists and speech
and language therapists, and provides a forum for research on language acquisition in all its diversity. </font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals for papers and posters are invited relating to all aspects of child language acquisition and disorders. Those which speak to the four key themes of the conference are particularly welcome.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">CLS 2011 will focus on four key themes in the field of child language research </font></div>
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<li>Child Language and Literacy</li><li>Children with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)</li><li>Capturing change in child language</li><li>Bilingual and cross-linguistic perspectives on child language</li></font>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Keynote speakers:</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">We are very pleased to announce that our confirmed keynote speakers are:</font></div>
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<li style="margin-top: 5pt; ">Professor Maggie Snowling (University of York): “Children at Preschool Risk of Dyslexia: From Theory to Intervention”</li></font>
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<li style="margin-top: 5pt; ">Professor James Law (Newcastle University): "The Better Communication Research Programme - research to impact upon practice and policy for children with speech, language and communication needs"</li></font>
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<li style="margin-top: 5pt; ">Professor Sheena Reilly (University of Melbourne)<font color="#1F497D">: “</font>The Early Language In Victoria Study: Outcomes at 4 and 5 years”<font color="#1F497D"> </font></li></font>
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<li style="margin-top: 5pt; ">Professor Elizabeth Pena (University of Texas)<font color="#1F497D">: </font><font color="#1F497D">Dynamic Assessment in Children Learning English as a Second Language: What Changes?</font></li></font>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Please visit our webpage for more detail <font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3" color="#4F81BD"><b><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/conferences/CLS2011/">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/conferences/CLS2011/</a></b></font></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Call for papers:</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals are invited for papers and posters related to all aspects of child language</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">acquisition and disorders.</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals will be considered on children’s first or subsequent language development (e.g., grammar, phonology, lexicon, pragmatics, discourse, literacy, bilingualism, sign language, psycholinguistic
processing) or on any aspect relating to children with language difficulties (e.g., description, assessment, remediation). </font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The CLS is a peer-reviewed research conference and all proposals will be reviewed anonymously by members of the organising committee.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Presentation format</i></font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals should indicate whether an oral presentation or poster is preferred. The programme committee views both formats as having equal value but reserves the right to switch formats to suit
the programme. Presenters will be notified about the final format of their presentation at the time their proposal is accepted.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Proposal format</i></font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals must be written in English and include the following:</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Cover Page:</i></font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Title of presentation</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Authors’ names and affiliations</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Name, address, telephone number and email address of contact person</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Abstract:</i></font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Title of presentation</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Summary of research undertaken (300 words maximum, single spaced)</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Do not include authors’ names</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Submitting proposals:</i></font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Proposals must be composed in either MS Word or RTF format with paper size set to A4 and submitted as an attachment to an email (not as part of the mail body of the email) to: <a href="mailto:cristina.mckean@ncl.ac.uk"><font color="#0000FF"><u>cristina.mckean@ncl.ac.uk</u></font></a></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Key dates:</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Submission of abstracts: 1<font size="1"><sup>st</sup></font> January 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1<font size="1"><sup>st</sup></font> February 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Registration open: 1<font size="1"><sup>st</sup></font> February 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Programme published on website: 1 April 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Early registration deadline (reduced fee): 15<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> April 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Registration and wine reception: 12<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> June</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">CLS meeting: 13<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font>-14<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> June 2010, with conference dinner 13<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> June</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Registration:</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Exact costings have not been finalised and will be published as soon as possible on the conference website. We will offer an early registration discount and a discount for students. </font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">As a guide, fees will not differ significantly from those for CLS 2010.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Venue:</b></font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">The CLS 2011 will be hosted by <b>Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University</b>, one of the UK's leading universities. Newcastle is a research - intensive university, with a reputation for teaching and learning of the
highest quality and for its role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University is one of the leading teaching and research units in the UK devoted to the study of normal communicative processes and communication disorders in children and adults. </font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 5pt; padding-left: 72pt; padding-right: 15pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The core aims of Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle is to deliver high quality teaching, and excellent research and to work collaboratively with
the profession to impact on practice. These activities contribute to our high standing within health and education both nationally and internationally. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Newcastle was the first university in the UK to award a degree in Speech and Language Therapy (1967), recently celebrated 50 years of Speech and Language Therapy Training and continues to be one of the UK’s leading SLT training
programmes. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Our <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/research/speechlanguage/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>research</u></font></a> involves the study of normal and impaired human communication processes, assessment and intervention for individuals
with communication disorders, and sociolinguistics, the RAE 2008 can be found <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/research/rae/rae2008/uoa58.htm"><font color="#0000FF"><u>here</u></font></a>. Many staff are members of larger collaborative research groups within the
university, including the <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences</u></font></a> and the <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihs/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>Institute of Health and
Society</u></font></a>. We also collaborate with researchers throughout the UK and abroad (Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand).</font></div>
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<a href="http://www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><u>Newcastle upon Tyne</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> was voted England's favourite city break destination by readers of the Guardian and Observer
for four consecutive years and has been voted </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">the UK’s best University City 2010 by MSN travel. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif">Located in the <a href="http://www.visitnortheastengland.com/?utm_source=splash&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=visitneengland"><font color="#0000FF"><u>North East of England</u></font></a>, the city is easily accessible by rail
(1½ hours from Edinburgh, 3 hours from London) and air (direct flights to over 25 destinations and excellent connections though London and Amsterdam).
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Known for the friendly welcome visitors receive, the city has impressive Georgian architecture, inspiring cultural venues and is within easy reach of the beautiful Northumbrian coastline, Hadrian's Wall, the Scottish Borders and stunning Durham city and cathedral.
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Accommodation:</b></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">We are asking delegates to kindly book their own conference accommodation. There are many excellent places to stay within the city and good public transport links to and from the university.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">More details of specific accommodation and transport arrangements will be available soon on the conference website.</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Further details will be circulated in due course and the conference website launched in the near future. If you have any queries please contact Cristina McKean <a href="mailto:cristina.mckean@ncl.ac.uk"><font color="#0000FF"><u>cristina.mckean@ncl.ac.uk</u></font></a></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">We look forward to welcoming you to the CLS in 2011</font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Cristina McKean, Helen Stringer, James Law</i></font></div>
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<div style="padding-left: 72pt; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Co-chairs CLS 2011 organising committee</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#1F497D"> <font size="2" color="#365F91">Dr Cristina McKean | Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology |(Developmental Speech and Language Disorders) | Speech and Language Sciences Section |School of Education Communication
and Language Sciences |Room 2.18a |King George VI Building |Newcastle University | Queen Victoria Rd |NE1 7RU | 0191 222 6528</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3" color="#1F497D"><b>CPD for SLTs & Allied Professionals: Accredited, advanced modules in Professional Practice </b><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/sltcpd"><font color="#4F81BD"><u><b>www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/sltcpd</b></u></font></a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#1F497D"><b>F</b><font size="3"><b>or </b></font><font size="3" color="#17365D"><b>information about the MSc in Evidence Based Practice in Communication Disorders go to </b></font><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/ebpcd"><font size="3" color="#4F81BD"><u><b>http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/ebpcd</b></u></font></a><font size="3" color="#4F81BD"><b>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3" color="#17365D"><b>Child Language Seminar 2011 is coming to Newcastle</b><font color="#1F497D"><b> </b></font><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/conferences/CLS2011/"><font color="#0000FF"><u><b>http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/conferences/CLS2011/</b></u></font></a></font></div>
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