Child Language Seminar
The Department of Language and Communication Science is delighted to be hosting the Child Language Seminar in summer 2010.
The Child Language Seminar (CLS) was first held in 1977. It is an interdisciplinary conference attracting a diverse audience of, among others, psychologists, linguists and speech and language therapists, and provides a forum for research on first and second language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children.
The Department of Language and Communication Science is delighted to be hosting the CLS on 24-25 June 2010. There will be a wine reception in the evening of 23 June.
Please follow the links below for further information. If you can't find what you need, please e-mail Chloe Marshall at Chloe.Marshall.1@city.ac.uk.
Organising committee / Programme / Keynote speakers / Key dates / Registration / Venue / Accommodation / Travel
Organising committee
- Nicola Botting, Shula Chiat and Chloe Marshall (co-chairs)
- Bernard Camilleri
- Lucy Dipper
- Barbara Dodd
- Andrea Dohmen
- Victoria Joffe
- Natalie Hasson
- Ros Herman
- Hannah Hockey
- Rachael Anne Knight
- Abigail Levin
- Wolfgang Mann
- Gary Morgan
- Lucy Myers
- Kamila Polisenska
- Belinda Seeff-Gabriel
- David Williams
- Anne Zimmer-Stahl
Programme
*UPDATE* We have finished reviewing the 206 abstracts that were submitted, and are delighted to have been able to accept 60 as papers and 40 as posters. We are currently putting together the programme. Please bear with us! More details of the programme will follow soon...
In the meatime, we are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders will be sponsoring the wine reception during the poster session on the first day of the conference.
Keynote speakers
Our keynote speakers will be:
- Professor Sue Gathercole (University of York) - "Working memory, language and classroom learning"
- Dr Ann Senghas (Barnard College of Columbia University, New York) - "From gestures to grammar - How learners created Nicaraguan Sign Language"
- Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford) - "Building bridges between genes, brains and language"
- A symposium on autism and language will be chaired by Dr David Williams (City University London), and will feature Professor Jill Boucher (City University London), Professor Peter Hobson (University College London) and Dr Tom Loucas (University of Reading).
Key dates
- Submission of abstracts: 31 December 2009
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 January 2010
- Registration open: 1 February 2010
- Programme published on website: 1 April 2010
- Early registration deadline (reduced fee): 1 May 2010
- Last date for registration: 1 June 2010
- Registration and wine reception: 23 June 2010
- CLS meeting: 24-25 June 2010, with conference dinner 24 June
Registration
Registration is now open - please click here.
Registration fees (inclusive of relevant VAT) are as follows:
- Early registration, full conference, student: £145
- Early registration, full conference, staff: £195
- Late registration (after 1 May), full conference, student: £155
- Late registration (after 1 May), full conference, staff: £215
- Early registration, one day attendance, student: £70
- Early registration, one day attendance, staff: £100
- Late registration (after 1 May), one day attendance, student, £80
- Late registration (after 1 May), one day attendance, staff: £110
The cost of the conference dinner on 24 June is included in the full conference registration fee, but not in the one day attendance fee. If you would like to attend the CLS for just one day, you can also join us for the conference dinner at an additional cost of £60 (inclusive of VAT).
We regret that we will not be able to offer refunds after the last date for registration, 1 June.
Venue
The CLS will be held at City University London. Founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute on its present site and awarded full university status in 1966, City University London has special links with the City of London and plays an active role in the business and professional life of the capital. We pride ourselves on our close contacts with the leading professional institutions and with business and industry, both at home and abroad. Our success is demonstrated by our graduate employment record, which is one of the best in the country. We are also the sixth most popular university in the UK for student applications. Our reputation extends worldwide: of almost 10,000 City University London students, more than 40 per cent are international, the majority of these from outside the European Union.
The Department of Language and Communication Science is a member of the School of Community and Health Sciences. We have been providing education to Speech and Language Therapists for over 50 years. We developed from the London Hospital School of Speech Therapy, founded by Winifred Kingdon Ward in 1942. In 1982 we linked with City University London, becoming a full Department in 1986.
We are the largest teaching, research and clinical SLT department in the UK, providing courses leading both to registration as a practitioner in speech and language therapy and post-registration opportunities for a range of professionals working in communication disability. We are a dynamic and forward-thinking department in which contributions to professional developments, teaching and learning, research and clinical application are flourishing.
The Department of Language and Communication Science is located in the Social Science Building, part of the main university campus in Northampton Square. You can find more information about the Department here, and maps of City University London here.
Our conference dinner will be held in the Battlebridge Room at Kings Place, the new waterside arts centre near St Pancras International and Kings Cross stations. You can find more details about the venue here.
Accommodation
We are asking delegates to kindly book their own conference accommodation, as there are lots of hotels near to City University London. Some that we recommend are:
If you wish to extend your stay in London, or indeed elsewhere in the UK, by taking a holiday with your family, Casamundo's website has a wide range of holiday homes.
Travel
City University London is located only 15 minutes by foot from St Pancras International, making us easily accessible to delegates who wish to arrive by Eurostar.
If you prefer to fly, trains from Luton Airport and Gatwick Airport run direct to St Pancras International. The nearest tube stations to City University London are Angel, on the Northern Line, and Farringdon, on the Circle/Hammersmith & City/Metropolitan lines. If you arrive at Stansted Airport there's a train to Liverpool Street Station which is a quick tube journey away from Farringdon, and if you come in to Heathrow Airport the tube journey is under an hour to Kings Cross, which is then one stop away from Angel. You can get further details on travelling in London here.
You can find all sorts of useful travel information at http://www.travelinlondon.org/.
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