We hold informal internal seminars and occasional external seminars as well as journal clubs. These are for IRCD members and associates and for other university staff.
Seminars are usually held in AE 3.18. If you would like to give a seminar or would like to attend one, or wish to be on the distribution list, please contact Elena Kushnerenko.
15/12/2011 11 am |
Dr Outi Tuomainen, UCL |
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and Dyslexia: Same or Different? Abstract: SLI is impairment in acquiring spoken language that particularly impacts on the acquisition of syntax, morphology and phonology (Bishop, 1997). Developmental dyslexia, in turn, is impairment in acquiring the written form of a language and manifests itself as poor reading, poor verbal short-term memory, poor phonological awareness and slow lexical retrieval (Snowling, 2000). At a first glance, SLI and dyslexia seem like distinct disorders. Recently it has been acknowledged, however, that there may be a close connection between SLI and dyslexia. Several studies show that SLI and dyslexia tend to frequently co-occur in the same individual (McArthur, Hogben, Edwards, Heath, & Mengler, 2000) and both disorders tend to run in families (Bishop, 2009). Moreover, depending on the definition criteria, several dyslexics meet the criteria for SLI and vice versa (see McArthur et al. 2000; Catts, Adlof, Hogan, & Weismer, 2005), and it has been suggested that both SLI and dyslexia stem from a similar underlying auditory processing deficit differing only in the degree of severity (Tallal et al. 1996). In this talk, I will discuss the results from recent behavioural and electrophysiological studies onto auditory and speech processing in SLI and dyslexia. The data presented here suggest that individuals with SLI and dyslexia have distinct input-processing profiles, and that in SLI these processing problems are phonological in nature. These results have implications for the theoretical models of SLI and developmental dyslexia. |
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| Past seminars in 2011-2012 | ||
10/11/2011 11 am |
Prof John Wattam-Bell, UCL | Developmental reorganisation of cortical visual processing in infancy |
24/11/2011 11am |
Prof Gary Morgan, City University |
Language delay affects Theory of Mind reasoning in non-verbal tasks |
27/10/2011 11am |
Dr Sara Lloyd-Fox (Birkbeck) | The Infant Social Brain: Data, Design and Development of fNIRS at CBCD |
| 13/10/2011 | Dr Marko Nardini (UCL) | Development of visual and multisensory cue integration foruncertainty reduction |
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