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
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