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LINGUIST List 23.2125

Wed May 02 2012

Confs: Cognitive Science/Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: 02-May-2012
From: Robin Lindop Fisher <robin.lindop-fisheryork.ac.uk>
Subject: Are You Receiving Me?
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Are You Receiving Me?
Short Title: AYRM


Date: 13-Jun-2012 - 13-Jun-2012
Location: York, United Kingdom
Contact: Robin Lindop Fisher
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/language/news/events/are-you-receiving-me/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition

Meeting Description:

'Are you receiving me?' is an interdisciplinary colloquium bringing together researchers from different disciplines to examine issues surrounding disability and communication. Academics from York and from further afield (Newcastle, Sheffield, UCL) will be giving presentations looking at disability and communication from a variety of perspectives, including linguistics, speech science, psychology, sociology and literature.

Prof Sara Howard (Sheffield) - Being (mis)understood: Conversational speech production in older children with persisting speech difficulties

Dr Tamar Keren-Portnoy (York) - Late talking toddlers: Relating early phonological development to later language

Dr Richard Ogden (York) - British Sign Language: The first or preferred language of 70,000 Deaf people in the UK

Sarah Pett (York) - ''Aphasia's fingerprints'': Language impairment, autobiography and fiction in Paul West's The Shadow Factory

Catherine Robson (York) - Conversations with patients in the seizure clinic

Dr Christos Salis (Newcastle) - Psychology and linguistics in aphasia treatment

Dr Janet Wood (UCL) - Supporting children with communication difficulties in school: Teachers' responses to perceived challenges


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