Padua, Italy
University of Padua (Palazzo del Bo)
June 7 - 9, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
9:00 am - 12:00 am Optional City of Padua Tour
1:30 pm - 2.00 pm Registration
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Opening Remarks and Greetings Judith Wiener, President
2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Aula Magna Symposia: Instruction and Intervention
1. Metacognition, Strategy Use, and Achievement in Students with Learning Difficulties: The Impact of Peer Support Programs
Chair: Lynn Meltzer
Discussant: Lynne Feagans
2. Literacy acquisition problems amongst bilingual learners
Chair: John Everatt
Discussant: Dina Joana S. Ocampo
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Refreshment Break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Roundtables
A) Aula Magna DSM-V e Learning Disabilities
Coordinator: Rosemary Tannock
B) Aula Nievo Disciplinary Literacy: Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities
Coordinator: Barbara J. Ehren
C) Aula Canova Coping resources of children with LD and their families
Coordinator: Michal Al-Yagon
D) Archivio Antico Issues in Learning Disabilities in L2 Learners: A Cross-National Perspective
Coordinator: Esther Geva
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Executive Board Meeting
Friday, June 8, 2012
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am - 10:30 am Aula Magna
Symposium The accuracy of academic and behavioral self-perceptions of individuals with LD: The effects of age and intervention
Chair: Michal Shany and Tami Katzir
Discussant: James Chapman
10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break
10:45 am - 1:00 pm Aula Magna Symposia: Mathematics and Calculation
1. Mathematics Disabilities: From Cognition to Performance
Chair: Linda Siegel
Discussant: Maria Chiara Passolunghi
2. Why identifying children with dyscalculia is so intricate? The importance of cognitive features underlying different clinical profiles.
Chair: Daniela Lucangeli
Discussant: Marie Pascale Noël
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm - 5.00 pm Aula Magna
Symposium on NLD in memory of B. RourkeIs it the diagnosis of NVLD still useful? Implications for diagnosis and intervention on children with NVLD
Chair: Irene C. Mammarella
Discussant: Cesare Cornoldi
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Break/Poster Set-up
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm Poster Session (Wine & Cheese)
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Banquet Dinner (Ticketed - Limited seating)
Saturday, June 9, 2012
9:00 am - 11:15 am Aula Magna Symposia: Reading and Comprehension
1. Supporting Individualized Early Literacy Instruction and Intervention: Innovations in Professional Development of Classroom Teachers
Chair: Stephanie Al Otaiba
Discussant: Karen R. Harris
2. Comprehensive reading: assessment and intervention
Chair: Annemie Desoete
Discussant: Ruth Vanderswalmen
11:15 am - 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am - 12: 30 am Aula Magna Cruickshank Memorial Lecture - Prof. Tom Scruggs
12:30 am - 1:00 pm Think Tank/Business Meeting
