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The 11th conference on Communication Disorders in Multilingual and Multicultural Populations
Hadassah Academic College - Department of Communication Disorders - In collaboration with the University of Essex School of Health and Social Care and Department of Language and Linguistics, will hold the 11th conference on Communication Disorders in Multilingual and Multicultural Populations.
The conference will be held on two consecutive days Via Zoom -
Download a PDF version of the Conference programe here!
Tuesday, 26th of January, 2021 – child language day
Wednesday, 27th of January, 2021 – adult language day
Conference Program - Tuesday 26th of January
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12:00-12:20 |
Welcome and greetings - Prof. Bertold Fridlender, President of Hadassah Academic College |
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12:20-13:00 |
Prof. Elinor Saiegh-Haddad and Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bar Ilan University, Department of English Linguistics |
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13:00-13:40 |
Dr. Bracha Nir, Haifa University, Department of Language Science and Communication Disorders “Verbal morphology and early sequential bilingualism: A view from Hebrew” |
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13:40-14:30 |
Lunch break and poster presentations |
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14:30-15:00 |
Dr. Karen Roehr-Brackin, University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics “Metalinguistic awareness in bilingual children” |
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15:00-15:30 |
Dr. Oren Cohen Roman, University of Haifa and Hadassah Academic College “Speech Disorders in a Polyglotic Context in the Works of Yiddish Writer Shalom Aleichem.” |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break, poster presentations and mingling |
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16:00-16:30 |
Dr. Judy Kupersmitt, Hadassah Academic College, Department of Communication Disorders and Prof. Elena Nicoladis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Department of Psychology “The expression of temporal simultaneity in the narratives of monolingual and bilingual children” |
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16:30-17:00 |
Prof. Vicky Joffe and Sai Bangera, University of Essex, School of Health and Social Care “Developing Cultural Humility in the Speech and Language Therapy Profession” |
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17:00-17:15 |
Coffee break |
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17:15-18:00 |
Prof. Erika Levy, Columbia University, Graduate School of Education, Health and Psychology “Cross-linguistic approaches to speech treatment for children with cerebral palsy" |
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18:00-18:15 |
Closure
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Conference Program - Wednesday, 27th of January
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13:30-13:45 |
Welcome and greetings Prof. Loraine Obler, Lehman College CUNY, Hadassah Academic College |
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13:45-14:25 |
Prof. Barbara Köpke, University of Toulouse, Language Sciences Department “Language control in bilingual speakers with aphasia” |
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14:25-15:05 |
Prof. Monika Schmid, University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics “Language loss and language attrition as a problem for language professionals” |
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15:05-15:45 |
Lunch break and poster presentations |
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15:45-16:15 |
Dr. Anna Caute, University of Essex, School of Health and Social Care “Assessing use of gesture in aphasia" |
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16:15-16:50 |
Prof. Mira Goral, Lehman College CUNY, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences "Language intervention in multilingual people with aphasia" |
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16:50-17:25 |
Coffee break and mingling |
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17:25-18:15 |
Dafna Olenik, Drs. Mira Goral, Aviva Lerman, and Loraine Obler, Hadassah Academic College, Department of Communication Disorders; Lehman College CUNY, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Discussion panel - "Aphasia online: Challenges and opportunities in therapy and research" |
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18:15-18:30 |
Closure |
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Keynote speakers at the 11th Hadassah Conference
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