29.61, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-61. Wed Jan 03 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.61, Calls: Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:02:41
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: 05-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 (Bi-SLI/DLD) compared to
bilingual children with typical development (Bi-TD).

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 (Bi-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 29 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

Call for Papers:

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.

Abstract submission will open on Monday 8 January and will close on Monday 5
February 2018. Abstracts will be submitted through the Easy Chair page
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bisli2018).

Key Dates:

8 January 2018: Abstract submission opens
5 February 2018: Abstract submission deadline
5 March 2018: Notification of acceptance
19 March 2018: Publication of programme
12 February 2018 to 23rd April 2018: Early bird registration
23 April 2018: Registration deadline for presenters
24 April 2018 to 4th June 2018: Full fee registration
4 June 2018: Registration closes
25 to 26 June 2018: CLS 2018 (http://www.reading.ac.uk/celm/events/cls2018/)
27 to 28 June 2018: Bi-SLI 2018
29 June 2018: Knowledge transfer workshop for Speech & Language Therapists

Abstract submission deadline: 5 February 2018

Notification of acceptance: 5 March 2018

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.

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