29.693, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-693. Mon Feb 12 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.693, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:52:29
From: Theo Marinis [t.marinis at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2018

 
Full Title: Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2018 
Short Title: Bi-SLI 2018 

Date: 27-Jun-2018 - 28-Jun-2018
Location: Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Theo Marinis
Meeting Email: t.marinis at reading.ac.uk
Web Site: https://research.reading.ac.uk/bisli2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 12-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Bi-SLI 2018 is the 2nd conference within the Bi-SLI conference series and aims
to bring together researchers who wish to share results of studies on language
development in bilingual children with SLI/DLD compared to bilingual children
with typical development.

Several waves of migration within the past decades have led to an increase in
the number of children worldwide who start pre-school in a language that is
not the language spoken in the home. While speech and language therapists can
successfully identify language impairment in monolingual children, this is far
from obvious when the language they evaluate is the child’s second language.
Numerous studies have documented that bilingual children with Specific
Language Impairment/Developmental Language Disorder (SLI/DLD) are over- or
under-represented in speech-language therapy caseloads.

To address the issues of over- and underrepresentation of bilingual children
with SLI/DLD in speech-language therapy caseloads, the European Cooperation in
Science and Technology (COST) Action IS0804 ‘Language Impairment in a
Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment’
developed the LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings)
tools series that were designed to facilitate the identification of SLI/DLD in
bilingual children. It also started the Bi-SLI conference series with Bi-SLI
2015 at the University of Tours (http://bisli2015.univ-tours.fr/).

The invited speakers for Bi-SLI 2018 are:

Prof Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Prof Lisa Bedore (University of Texas at Austin)

Bi-SLI 2018 is immediately after the Child Language Symposium 2018 (25-26 June
2018) which will also be at the University of Reading
(http://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/events/cls2018/).

Bi-SLI 2018 will be followed by a knowledge transfer workshop for speech &
language therapists and other professionals who support multilingual children.
The knowledge transfer workshop will be on the 29th June.

The Conference is organised by the Centre for Literacy & Multilingualism at
the University of Reading (https://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/).

Organising committee: Theo Marinis, Ludovica Serratrice, Emma Pagnamenta,
George Pontikas

For more information, visit our web-site:
https://research.reading.ac.uk/bisli2018/


2nd Call for Papers:

The deadline for abstract submissions for Bi-SLI 2018 has been extended to 12
February 2018

Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language
Disorder) 2018, 27-28 June 2018, University of Reading, UK

We welcome submissions for papers and posters on research surrounding
bilingual children with SLI/DLD, including:

- The profile of bilingual children with SLI/DLD in terms of their verbal and
non-verbal abilities,
- The identification of SLI/DLD in bilingual contexts,
- The assessment of SLI/DLD in bilingual contexts, including studies using the
LITMUS tasks,
- Comparison of the profile of bilingual children with SLI/DLD to children
with other developmental language disorders, e.g. Autism.

Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster.
Length of abstracts: paper or poster (450 words max – excluding references and
title of paper).
Length of paper presentations: 20 min. and 10 min. for discussion and change
of rooms
Poster format: Poster size: A1, max, landscape or portrait.

Presenter policy

The proposals for all presentations will be evaluated anonymously by at least
two reviewers. The criteria include the quality of the content and the clarity
of the abstract, and the contribution to the field.




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