Bilingual Mind, Brain & Child Development Symposium

Monday, May 9, 2016

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcome address by Dr. James Booth, Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, UT Austin

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Dr. Ellen Bialystok, York University

Bilingualism and attention: What's the connection?

Introduction by Dr. Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan, Harrington Fellow

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Dr. Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University

Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural implications of bimodal bilingualism

Introduction by Dr. Richard Meier, Chair of the Linguistics Department, UT Austin

11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Lunch break

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Dr. Claude Goldenberg, Stanford University

Reviving an American Tradition: Bilingual Education

Introduction by Dr. Rebecca Callahan, Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Program, School of Education, UT Austin

2:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. General Discussion with speakers and Drs. Bharath Chandrasekaran, Li Sheng, Ioulia Kovelman

3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Closing address by Dr. Lisa Bedore, Communication & Sciences Department, UT Austin

We gratefully acknowledge support from the Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, UT Austin

Location: 

Room 2.106
300 W. Dean Keeton Street 
Austin, TX - 78712
 
The event free and open to the public
Watch the live stream here.