Let the Children Speak (programme available)

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Here is the actual programme:

Let the Children Speak
Learning of Critical Language Skills across 25 Languages
A European-wide initiative on Language Acquisition and Language
Impairment
22 - 24 January 2010
London

Location: The Wellcome Trust, Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BE

Programme

Friday 22nd January 2010

12.00 - 14.00 Registration

Chair: Daniel Glaser (The Wellcome Trust)
13.45 - 14.15 	Welcome: Uli Sauerland and Heather van der Lely
14.15 - 14.45 	TBC Representative from Department for Children,
Families and Schools
	Introduced by Linda Lascelles, CEO Association for all Speech
Impaired Children
14.45 - 15.05 	Abby Beverly The perspective of an Adult with SLI
	Living with a language impairment
	In discussion with Victoria Joffe (City University London, UK)
15.05 - 15.55 	Stephen Crain, Professor of Cognitive Science MACCS
Macquarie University, Australia
	Investigating child language from a 'biolinguistic' perspective
15.55 - 16.50 	Coffee Break
	Poster Session I
	Interactive Sessions
 	Demonstrations and participation in the COST A33 language
experiments
16.50 - 17.00	Jo Eddings
	The perspective of a parent of a child with SLI
17.00 - 18.30  	Panel Discussion
	Also open to those attending the Reception
	Moderated and chaired by Daniel Glaser (The Wellcome Trust)
Panel Members:
1. 	Heather van der Lely, COST A33 Vice Chair (Harvard University,
USA)
	The scientific perspective
2. 	Virginia Beardshaw, CEO I CAN: The children's communication
charity
3. 	TBC:Helga Nowotny, Vice President ERC
4. 	Hazel Roddam, Deputy Chair of the Royal College of Speech and
Language Therapists, UK
	Panel Discussion
	General Discussion and Audience Participation
18.30 - 21.00 	COST A33 Reception
	At The Wellcome Trust Medicine Now Gallery
	Conference participants plus Ambassadors of all 25 countries involved
in COST A33, and other professionals and politicians from the EU

Saturday 23rd January 2010

08.30 - 09.00 	Registration

Chair: Michael Thomas, (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
09.00 - 10.15  	Symposium 1:  Coordinator Spyridoula Varlokosta
(Athens University, Greece
	Children's production and comprehension of pronouns across languages
	João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
	Production of pronouns - designing a crosslinguistic experiment and
crosslinguistic findings
	Maria Teresa Guasti (University Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
	Production of partitive pronouns across languages
	Maria Teresa Guasti (University Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
	Children's comprehension of pronouns in European languages
10.15 - 10.30 	Susan Edwards (Reading University, UK). Discussion by
Professional SLT

10.30 - 11.00 	Coffee Break
	Poster Session II
11.00 - 12.00	Symposium 2: Coordinator Angeliek van Hout (University
of Groningen, Netherlands)
	Acquiring tense and aspect
	Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
	Learning to understand aspect across languages
	Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
	Acquiring tense crosslinguistically: comprehension and production
12.00 - 12.15 	 Jane Stokes (MRCSLT University of Greenwich, UK)
Discussion by Professional
	End of Symposium
12.15 - 14.30	Lunch
	Interaction session
	Poster Session II (continued)
Chair: Dr Kleanthes Grohmann, (University of Cyprus, Greece)
14.30 – 16.00 	Symposium 3: Coordinator Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
	Children's questions about questions
	Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
	Introduction: on wh questions and relative clauses in typically
developing and language-impaired children
	Heather van der Lely (Harvard University, USA)
	How do 5 year olds understand questions: Differences in languages
across Europe?
	Petra Schulz (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
	Who answered what to whom? On children’s understanding of exhaustive
questions
	Naama Friedman  (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
	The production of relative clauses by 5 year olds across multiple
languages:
	"They prefer to be the children who do not produce object relatives"
15.45 - 16.00	TBC Susan Ebbels (Moor House School for language
Impaired children, UK) Discussant.
16.00 - 17.15	Coffee Break
	Poster session III
 	Interactive Session
17.15 - 17.45 	General Discussion: Led by Daniel Glaser
17.45 - 18.30	Management Meeting: MC COST members only
19.15 	Conference Dinner
	The Crypt in Ely Place (off Holborn Circus)
	(Bleeding Heart Yard Restaurant)

Sunday 24th January 2010
Chair:  Ineta Dabašinskienė (Vytautas Magnus University Lithuania)
09.00 - 10.15 	Symposium 4: Coordinator Sharon Armon-Lotem, (Bar-Ilan
University, Israel)
	Understanding passive sentences
	Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
	An introduction – why study the acquisition of passive sentences?
	Kazuko Yatsushiro (ZAS, Berlin)
	Short and long passives in 5 year olds: a crosslinguistic perspective
	Sari Kunnari  (University of Oulu, Finland )
	The development of the passive
	Kristine Jensen de López  (Aalborg University, Denmark)
	Understanding passive sentences by children with specific language
impairments: a cross-linguistic comparison
10.15 - 10.30  	Julie Dockrell (Institute of Education, UK)
Discussion from an Educational perspective
10.30 - 11.00 	Coffee Break
	Poster session III (continued)
11.00 - 12.15 	Symposium 5  Coordinator Ken Drozd (Hanze University,
Groningen, Netherlands)
	Quantifiers and implicatures
	Ken Drozd (Hanze University, Groningen, Netherlands)
	Some ambassadors attended the conference: Understanding quantifiers
and implicatures
	Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge University, UK)
	What can the acquisition of quantification tell us about assessing
language development? Evidence from  crosslinguistic, bilingual and
SLI research
         Arve Asbjørnsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
         Challenges in test development: some psychometric properties
of the quantification tasks

12.15 – 12.30 	Hilary Gardner (SLT, and  Shefield University UK).
Discussion: an educational and professional perspective
12.30 - 13.00 	Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts, USA)
	Conference Discussant
13.00 – 13.05	Presentation of Poster Prize
	Conference Close
13.05 - 14.00 	Lunch

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