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Title | Call for Papers: Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop |
Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3140.html Interfaces of Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment Workshop February 1-5, 2009 Institute for Advanced Study, the Hebrew University, Israel The large numbers of bilinguals in the world and widespread migrations of the 1990s, have led to dramatic increases in the number of children being raised in multilingual communities. Typically developing (TD) bilinguals often look like the children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), creating methodological and clinical diagnostic confounds. Medical, language and educational professionals have limited test instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who will eventually catch up to their monolingual peers. As a result, folk wisdom reigns, often carrying the view that bilingual children with language disorders should be educated in a single language, usually not the language of the home. In recent years, several research groups have taken upon themselves to disentangle bilingualism and SLI by establishing the relative contribution of the each to impaired language performance. The deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2008. Read the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3140.html . |
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