The 12th conference on Communication Disorders in Multilingual and Multicultural Populations

13:00-13:30

Welcome and greetings
Prof. Bertold Fridlender, President of Hadassah Academic College
Dr. Judy Kupersmitt, Lecturer at the MA program and Head of the Organizing Committee of the Conference
Dr. Atalia Hai-Weiss, Head of the MA program

13:30-14:10

“Assessment of language skills in multilingual and multicultural settings”
Prof. Julie Dockrell
Department of Psychology and Human Development, University College London

14:10-14:35

“Profiling bilingual children: using monolingual assessment to inform diagnosis”
Karen Rose1, Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem2, Dr. Carmit Altman3
1,2 Department of English Linguistics, Bar ilan University, 3 School of Education, Bar Ilan University
2,3 Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Center, Bar Ilan University

15:00-16:00

Mingling and poster session

16:00-16:40

“Developmental Trajectories in Clause Combining Complex Syntax”
Dr. Lyle Lustigman1, Prof. Ruth A. Berman2
1Department of Communication Disorders, San Jose State University, 2Department of Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University

16:40-17:00

“Discussion: Developing grammatical complexity and complex syntax in Arabic child language”
Prof. Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Department of English Linguistics, Bar Ilan University

17:00-17:30

Coffee break and poster session

17:30-18:00

“Early predictors of literacy and lexicon development in bilingual children in primary school: Evidence from the longitudinal BIVEM study”
Dr. Natalie Topaj
Leibniz Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)

18:00-18:25

“Bilingual children who stutter: a cross-linguistic perspective”
Prof. Cahtia Adelman1, Dr. Sveta Fichman2
1,2Department of Communication Disorders, Hadassah Academic College, 2Department of English Linguistics, Bar Ilan University

18:25

Closure

14:00-14:15

Welcome and greetings
Prof. Loraine Obler, CUNY Graduate Center & Hadassah Academic College
Prof. Bertold Fridlender, President of Hadassah Academic College

14:15-14:50

“Supporting everyday multilingual care – focus on dementia”
Dr. Katrin Bente Karl
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

14:50-15:15

“Quantitative and qualitative differences in language mixing across the two languages of bilingual Russian-Hebrew-speaking patients with aphasia”
Alina Bihovski2,3, Dr. Michal Ben-Shachar1,2, Dr. Natalia Meir1,2
1Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, 2The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, 3The Sheba Rehabilitation Hospital

15:15-16:15

Mingling and poster session 

16:15-16:55

“Implications of Growing Multiethnic-Multilingual Aging Populations in Speech-Language Pathology Training and Practice”
Prof. Jose Centeno
School of Health Sciences, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Rutgers University

16:55-17:30

“Interviews about identity and multi-culturalism of people with aphasia – personal perspectives”
Elchanan Lerner, Dubi Rozen, Dafna Olenik, Orly Shay Keslassy
Adler Center of Aphasia, Hadassah Academic College

17:30-18:00

Mingling and poster session 

118:00-18:40

“Rebuilding identity: A critical process for people with aphasia”
Prof. Debra Meyerson1,2, Steve Zuckerman2
1Stanford University, 2Stroke Onward

18:40

Closure