Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop - Call for Posters

[Anat Prior]

Sharon Shalom,

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?

Many thanks,
Anat Prior

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sharon Armon-Lotem <
sharon.armonlotem at gmail.com> wrote:

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


-- 
Anat Prior, PhD
Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center
for the Study of Learning Disabilities
Department of Learning Disabilities
Faculty of Education
Haifa University
Haifa, Israel

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aprior/

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