IDA Symposium, November 9, 2005

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IDA Symposium, November 9, 2005

• Biological and Experiential Aspects of
  Reading-Related Disorders Neurology, Physiology,
  Genetics, and Environment

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Why So Much In So Little Time?Necessity Logic
Genetics
Environment
Neurology
Risk
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Order

• Welcome
• Introduction
• Dyslexia and Speech Sound Disorder How Are They
  Related?
• Neuroanatomy of Reading Development
• Break 10.15a

• The Brain and Dyslexia
• Longitudinal Twin Study of Literacy Language
• QA
• Lunch 12.15p
• Gene Localization and Identification for Dyslexia

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Order

• Early Identification of the Vulnerability to
  Dyslexia and Preventive Training of the Basic
  Reading Skill Among At-Risk Children
• Break 2.45p

• Environmental Toxicants as a Risk Factor for
  Developmental Disabilities
• Summary, Implications, and Conclusions
• QA until 4.30p

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Speakers

• Bruce Pennington, PhD, John Evans Professor of
  Psychology, Denver University, CO
• Robert Doherty, PhD, Senior Research Scientist,
  Stanford Institute for Reading and Learning,
  Stanford University, CA
• Guinevere Eden, PhilD, Director, Center for the
  Study of Learning, Georgetown University, DC
• Brian Byrne, PhD, Professor of Psychology,
  University of New England, Australia

• Shelley Smith, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Hattie B. Munroe Center for Molecular
  Genetics, University of Nebraska NE
• Heikki Lyytinen, PhD, Professor Director, Child
  Research Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
• Susan Koger, PhD, Professor of Psychology,
  Willamette University, OR
• Angela Fawcett, PhD, Reader, Department of
  Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK