CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and REFERENCE LISTS
University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 25-27th September 2009: Language disorders in children: What can they tell us about genes and brains? DysTalk online: 28 March 2009. See also: Dyslexia: Evaluating Alternative Solutions for Dyslexia. (For full PowerPoint presentation with notes, select 'Download' option, rather than 'Open.')
Seminar at University of Edinburgh, 19th March 2009: Language disorders in children: What can they tell us about genes and brains?
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience: The significance of nonword repetition difficulties in specific language impairment. September 2008 (Seminar) SLI Consortium meeting, September 2008. IMFAR London meeting, May 2008: Roundtable discussion on diagnostic instruments. DLDCN Centre and Behavioural & Brain Sciences Unit: When does phonological impairment cause literacy problems? June 2008 (Presentation) DLDCN Centre and Behavioural & Brain Sciences Unit: When does phonological impairment cause literacy problems? June 2008 (Reading list) The Fifth Betty Byers Brown Memorial Lecture: Recent advances in our understanding of developmental language disorders. University of Manchester, April, 2008. 7th BDA International Conference 2008: Dyslexia: Making Links: Treating reading disability without reading: evaluating alternative intervention approaches. March, 2008. (For full PowerPoint presentation with notes, select 'Download' option, rather than 'Open.') Seminar at Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics: What can developmental language impairment tell us about genetic bases of syntax? University of Cambridge, January 2008. University of Western Australia Seminar: Children who read accurately despite language impairment: Who are they and how do they do it? University of Western Australia, November 2007.
University of Western Australia Seminar: Beeps, boops and beanbags: a psychologist looks at cures for dyslexia. University of Western Australia, December, 2006.
Keynote Address: British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience: Typical and atypical development of the auditory system: Insights from event-related potentials. Coventry University, 4 - 6 September, 2006.
Birch Lecture: INS/SVNP/GNP Meeting: Neurodevelopmental disorders: Syndromes, spectrums and conundrums. Zurich, 26 - 30 July 2006.
EPS
Mid-Career Award:
Developmental Cognitive Genetics.
How Psychology Can Inform Genetics and Vice Versa.
Montreal, 14 - 17 July 2005.
Denver Meeting, Bruce Pennington: The Linguistic Phenotype in Familial Dyslexia. Denver, 5 - 9 July 2005.
Auditory Processing Disorder Workshop: The UCL Centre for Human Communication, London, 15 February 2005. Auditory immaturity in SLI: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence.
Australian Society for Biological Psychiatry, Annual Scientific Meeting: Fremantle, Western Australia, 1 December 2004. Using genetics to test cognitive models of developmental disorders: the case of specific language impairment.
Lecture at University of Western Australia, Perth, 3 November 2004. Developmental dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: Same or different?
EACD 2004 from Evidence to Empowerment Conference 16th Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, 7 - 9 October 2004. Pragmatics in communication.
Joint Workshop on SLI, Valencia, Spain - 2 - 3 October 2004. Pragmatic Language Impairments.
The 8th Nordic Meeting in Neuropsychology, Turku, Finland, - 28 September 2004. SLI and dyslexia: Same or different: Evidence from neurobiological genetic studies.
British Society of Audiology, Auditory Processing Disorders Special Interest Group, Nottingham - Monday, 5 July 2004. Overlap between APD and other developmental conditions.
Talk at Avdelningen fφr logopedi och foniatri Lunds universitet: Thursday, 27 May 2004. Modified speech in intervention with language-impaired children: is it effective?
Symposium: 30 ans de Neuropιdiatrie ΰ Lausanne en lhonneur du Prof Thierry Deonna - Lausanne 22 January 2004. Things that do and dont affect language acquisition in children.
Language History Questionnaire
Experimental Psychology Society, Reading Thursday, 10 July 2003. Are language deficits part of the broader autism phenotype?
The Audiology Symposium, Norwich Wednesday, 7 May 2003. Mild to moderate sensorineural hearing impairment: impact on language and literacy development
Neurology for Neuroscientists, Magdalen College, Oxford, 7- 8 April 2003. Boundaries between developmental disorders of language, literacy and communication.
Lecture to the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry meeting on Dyslexia, Regents College London, 19 March 2003. Reading and Language Impairments
18th Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2003, Cambridge, UK. 7 March 2003.Genes and Language
SLI, Genes, Development and Cognitive Neuroscience
Opening Workshop for the
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience. 18
20 October 2002, University College London. Language and literacy impairments:
same or different? Evidence from neurobiological and genetic studies
23rd Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders and 9th Congress
International Association for the Study of Child Language,
Madison, USA. July 2002.
How language impairment can help us understand normal development.
Novartis
Meeting, London. June 2002.
1. Autism and specific language impairment: categorical distinction or
continuum?
2. Impairments of cognition, language and behaviour: is there a common
basis.
Seminar at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London. May 2002. Language and literacy impairments: same or different?
Plenary Lecture, Lund University Hospital, Sweden. April 2002. Pragmatic language impairment in children.
NAPLIC Residential Conference, Oxford, March 2002: Language for Learning. The importance of pragmatics in language for learning.
Wellcome PRF Meeting - London, March 2002. What causes language and literacy disorders in children?
Seminar at Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research, Edith Cowan University, WA - 06 March 2002. Written language as a window into residual language deficits
Talk in Distinguished Visitors Programme Centre for Attention and Related Disorders, University of Western Australia, 27 February 2002. Communication Impairments
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of
Western Australia, 18-21 February 2002.
Are there any developmental disorders that dont involve executive deficits?
Presentation at symposium: Intelligence, rationality and the mind: Explorations
of the role of the frontal lobes in consciousness, cognition and neuroscience
Autism Journal Club: Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, WA, 9 February, 2002
ASHA Conference, New Orleans, November 2001. The role of genes in the etiology of specific language impairment.
Talk at meeting on 'Aspecten van Taal-Ontwikkeling & Tall Ontwikkelings-Stoornissen', Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 20 October 2001. Genetic predisposition to language impairment in children: is auditory deficit involved?
Department of Experimental Psychology, Open Day, June 2001
Sensory Bases of Reading and Language Disorders, Essex, May 2001
British Dyslexia Association Conference, York, April 2001
Ipswich Language Course, Belstead House, January 2001
Sensory Bases of Reading and Language Disorders, University of Essex, May 2000
Human Genetics Society, Child Health Research Institute, Perth, Western Australia, February 2001
University of Ulster, Guest Lecture, November 2000
Millennium Conference, Specific Language Impairment in Children, Belfast, November 2000 References
Scientific Symposium: Advances in the Field of Voice, Speech and Language Pathology in the Last Decade, Utrecht, October 2000.
Autumn School, Dept Experimental Psychology, Oxford, September 2000
Euresco, Brain Development and Cognition in Infants, September 2000
National Science Foundation, Washington DC, April 2000
13th International Twin Workshop, Boulder Colorado, March 2000
Child Clinical Neuropsychology Course, November 1999
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sheffield, September 1999
European Commission Dyslexia Conference, Cambridge, September 1999
IASCL Conference, San Sebastian, July 1999
OSCCI at ICON, Budapest, Hungary, June 1999
OSCCI at SRCLD Conference, Madison, June, 1999
OSCCI at the AFASIC Conference, April, 1999
OSCCI Developmental Seminar at Oxford, April, 1999
AFASIC Conference, York, March 1999