<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Nelson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithnelsonart@gmail.com">keithnelsonart@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:23 PM<br>Subject: IASCL Amsterdam 2014 plus Keith related note on Children & Nature<br>To: <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>, Keith Nelson <<a href="mailto:keithnelsonart@gmail.com">keithnelsonart@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>HI all. The Amsterdam conference for sure shows growth in our field, and it was a rich and interesting meeting. Thanks to all who set it up so nicely, and to after-notes.<br><br>
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Many of you know that I have long been interested in basic science translations to more effective language interventions.<br><br></div> A more recent, partly related interest is in communications and interventions that may help children develop awareness and knowledge of Nature and to develop attitudes and actions that may help preserve and improve the Natural Environment. Please share with me any of your own efforts or efforts by those outside our field who may have completed projects, books, videos and so on related to these topics that you have found valuable. Future work might get sophisticated, we can hope, in adapting materials and projects to the current language skills of child participants.<br>
<br></div> Among my own modest work in this area is a paperback and eBook versions of the book, "Children, Pelicans, & Planets: Bobcat Magic" (Available through <a href="http://epubbud.com" target="_blank">epubbud.com</a> and Amazon.com). A brief sense of the nature of this book can be gleaned from the note below.<br>
<br></div> All the best, Keith Nelson<br><br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Children, Pelicans,
Planets: Bobcat Magic<span> </span></i>by<span> </span>Keith E. Nelson</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:keithnelsonart@gmail.com" target="_blank">keithnelsonart@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Super Impact Images Press</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Surprise, delight, and amazement may await you as a reader
of these chapters.<span> </span>In addition it is
anticipated that in multiple ways these stories of Nature exploration and the
beautiful photos of Nature will create some restlessness in many readers, some
itches toward actions that increase their own contacts with nature and the
quantity and quality of their children's participation with nature.<span> </span>Of course, you and different readers will
enter the book with different frames of experience and will carry from it
varied kinds and degrees of new awareness.<span>
</span>Each of you will absorb the many reflections offered in these excursions
into nature and will go beyond them to their own. Among the likely impacts of <i>Children, Pelicans, and Planets: Bobcat
Magic</i> on readers and in turn on their friends and children are these--</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Setting aside more time to enter nature</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Heightened attention to details in a
wide range of contexts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">New awareness of the potential for the
seemingly familiar to surprise, reorient, and touch us</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Feeling the threads of how nurturing
the planet resonates with nurturing our children</span></p>
<br><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Virginia Valian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com" target="_blank">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
Brian Macwhinney and I and our teams have compiled information on the<br>
number of presentations and presenters at IASCL conferences from 1981<br>
to 2014. As you will see, there are (too) many columns that are<br>
missing information. If you can provide any of the missing<br>
information, please do let me know so we can update this.<br>
<br>
The 1981 conference in Vancouver had 122 abstracts. The 2014<br>
conference in Amsterdam had 574. The field has indeed increased!<br>
<br>
We hope that this information about the growing size of the field may<br>
be useful when you are making requests for support of any sort,<br>
whether through funding agencies or within your institution.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
VVV<br>
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Virginia Valian<br>
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center<br>
Psychology, Linguistics, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences,<br>
Co-Director, Hunter College Gender Equity Project<br>
Director, Language Acquisition Research Center<br>
email: <a href="mailto:vvvstudents@gmail.com" target="_blank">vvvstudents@gmail.com</a><br>
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<a href="http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm" target="_blank">http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/faculty/valian/valian.htm</a><br>
<a href="http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/" target="_blank">http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/" target="_blank">http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/" target="_blank">http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/</a><br>
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