LINGUIST List 25.3713

Tue Sep 23 2014

Summer Schools: Communication and Brain in Multilingual Aging / Oslo, Norway

Editor for this issue: Malgorzata Cavar <gosialinguistlist.org>

Date: 22-Sep-2014
From: Elizabeth Lanza <elizabeth.lanzailn.uio.no>
Subject: Communication and Brain in Multilingual Aging / Oslo, Norway
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Host Institution: University of Oslo
Coordinating Institution: Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing)
Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/phd-seminars/2014/communication-and-brain-in-multilingual-aging-1/index.html

Dates: 20-Oct-2014 - 28-Oct-2014
Location: Oslo, Norway

Focus: The course is given by Distinguished Professor Loraine Obler (CUNY, US), and will span two terms – with one intensive teaching session in the fall of 2014 (October 20–28), and the other in the spring of 2015 (April 13–20). In this course, we will discuss what is known about how language production and comprehension change in bilingual adults across the later end of the lifespan. After a review of the brain changes associated with healthy aging, aphasia and dementia, and the language changes associated with healthy aging, we will consider the interactions of cognition with language in aging, then turn to aphasia diagnosis and treatment in older multilingual adults and language and communication in multilingual patients with the dementias and progressive aphasias.
Minimum Education Level: BA
Special Qualifications: Some knowledge of linguistics and/or speech-language pathology.

Description:
Part I, fall 2014

In the fall session of the course, students will present selected papers on the topics to be covered on a given day, and time will be reserved for discussion among all attendees of both the clinical and public policy implications of the research findings in the field. Students will select a topic to prepare as a literature review or a research project design for the spring sessions.

Part II, spring 2015

In the spring session, students will present their papers to the group for discussion, and additional topics may be taken up as time permits.



Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics

Tuition: 0 USD
Registration: 22-Sep-2014 to 03-Oct-2014
Contact Person: Elizabeth Lanza
                Email: elizabeth.lanzailn.uio.no

Apply by Email: elizabeth.lanzailn.uio.no

Registration Instructions:
Students are requested to indicate their academic background and how this course is relevant for them.

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