New publication in LSHSS is in the “papers in press” section. This is a closer analysis of the pretest stories that children told on a dynamic assessment study by Brenda Gorman, Christine Fiestas, Elizabeth Peña, & Maya Clark.
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A Week of Visitors
Last week Deirdre Martin, Senior Lecturer from the University of Birmingham visited with us at the Habla lab all week. What a treat for us. She gave a talk on theories of language impairment and the role of dynamic assessment in sorting these out especially for children from CLD backgrounds. We had a chance to talk more extensively about mediating mediators– that is the question of how to train students, SLPs and so on to do dynamic assessment and mediated learning. I expect this is a conversation that will continue for some time.
Karin Boerger, doc student, bilingual speech language pathologist, and long-distance commuter joined us on Wednesday. She presented on Friday on her research project (or should I say projects) focuses on development of bilingual children’s argument structure. Excellent.
What's happening…
Well, the semester is well underway. Reading group started, we don’t have a specific theme this semester but we have some interesting readings and presentations. I’ll try to remember to post the schedule somewhere so that we know what’s going on. Reading group starts at 3:00pm. Lisa presented last week on a study that we’re in the process of writing up. Next Monday Han will present some of the data from that study.
I’m in San Francisco right now– it’s raining, but beautiful. I’m here for an NIH grant review panel. We mainly review grants under the R01, R03, R21, and R15 mechanisms. We are staying at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. We had dinner at the Slanted Door Restaurant which is at the Ferry Building.
Also, I am presenting on Dynamic Assessment of Narratives via the web– called a Webinar. I’ve never done this before, but it should be fun. It should be a good introduction to how to do dynamic assessment and how it all works.
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