The International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
Multilingual Affairs Committee (MAC)
and
The Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at CUNY
Lehman College, New York City are proud to announce a symposium entitled:
Multilingualism and Cultural Diversity: Language and
Literacy Challenges in Diverse Populations
This course is offered for 1.0 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area)
To receive 1.0 CEUs you are required to attend both days.
Place : LEHMAN COLLEGE
LOVINGER THEATRE
Date and Time:
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
8:30 AM to 3 PM
8:30 AM to 1 PM
Lehman College  Speech & Theatre Building Lovinger Theatre
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, NY 10468-1589
Course Description: This workshop is for any professional who wants to gain the knowledge and skills for
working with a multilingual and multicultural populations. This two-day workshop will provide
practitioners with evidence-based knowledge of reading comprehension, voice disorders, vocabulary,
literacy, aphasia, and all areas of language development throughout the world. This knowledge is
essential given that most practitioners work with multilingual speakers. This workshop will also describe
persons with communication and other disabilities impacted by socio-political and natural disasters
including the current conflicts in Syria and Gaza in the Middle East, the recent floods and tsunamis in
Asia, and the political conflicts in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) provides a multinational platform that advances
knowledge in human communication disorders worldwide. The IALP plays a pivotal role for international networking
through its Congresses, Composia, and is partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) and nationally based
organizations interested in global communication sciences and disorders. At present, the IALP has over 400 individual
members from 54 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America, and Europe. The IALP and its
members create, share, and distribute information on and about disorders in multinational forums. Multinational
committees provide up-to-date guidelines for clinical practice that can be used in any country.
Thursday at 8:30 AM- 3 PM
Lovinger Theatre
Friday at 8:30 AM - 1 PM
Registration 8 AM – 8:30 AM
Registration 8 AM-8:30 AM
Program: 8:30-3:00
Welcome
Program 8:30-1:00
Presentations:
Keynote Presentation: Carol Westby
Presentations:
-Elin Thordardottir (Iceland & Canada)
-Heila Jordaan (South Africa)
-Carol Westby
-Jose Centeno
-Dolores Battle
-Yvette Hus (Canada)
Thursday
Lovinger Theatre
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LUNCH SERVED
12-1 PM East Dining Room
Presentations in the Lovinger Theatre after lunch
-Sharon Moonsamy (South Africa)
-Gisele Oliveira (Brazil)
DETAILED SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH in the Lovinger Theatre
8:30 AM to 3 PM
8 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Sandra Levey
Welcome
9 AM
Carol Westby
Keynote Presentation
A Cultural Neuroscience Approach to Understanding Variations in Behaviors, Beliefs, and
Emotions: Implications for Interventions.
10 AM
Elin Thordardottir
Lexical, Syntactic, and Language Processing Abilities of Simultaneous and
sequential Bilinguals.
11 AM
Heila Jordaan
Differentiating between typical and atypical language development in multilingual
Children.
12 PM
*LUNCH served in the East Dining Room
1 PM
Sharon Moonsamy
Experiences and the Strategies Described by South African Parents/Caregivers with English
Additional Language (EAL) when Reading to Their Young Children.
2 PM
Gisele Oliveira
Coping with Behavioral Dysphonia: Multicultural Aspects.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH in the Lovinger Theatre
8:30 AM to 1 PM
8 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Carol Westby
Language and Literacy Learning in a Culturally Diverse Multimedia World
10 AM
Jose Centeno
Aphasia Management in Multilingual Communities: Linking Evidence to Clinical
Decisions
11 AM
Dolores Battle
The impact of evaporating borders on language and literacy of refugees and immigrants.
12 PM
Yvette Hus
Braiding Reading Comprehension with Executive Functions in Speech Language Pathology
Assessments: A Preferred Approach for Multilingual-Multicultural Students.
As a result of participating in these seminars, participants will be able to:
1.
2.
Address the challenges SLPs face in serving multilingual populations with communication disorders.
Provide evidence-based responses for families and caregivers regarding communication disorders in multilingual populations.
3. Provide evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches when working with multilingual populations.
PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES and DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS
Dolores Battle
Professor of Speech Language Pathology at SUNY Buffalo State (USA) and an Honored Member and former president of both the American Speech Language Hearing
Association and the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. She is recognized worldwide for contributions to multicultural and international issues in
Communication Disorders.
Financial: Dr. Battle receives a salary from SUNY Buffalo State, New York. No other relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Dolores Battle has published in peer-reviewed journals and in books. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Jose Centeno
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, St. John’s University, New York. Dr. Centeno studies the factors in service delivery in
culturally and linguistically diverse aphasia programs, particularly the theoretical and professional bases to serve monolingual Spanish/bilingual Spanish-English speakers
with aphasia.
Financial: Dr. Centeno will be receiving an honorarium from Lehman College for this workshop. . Dr. Centeno receives a salary from St. John’s University, New York.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Jose Centeno has co-authored and published in peer-reviewed journals and in books. He receives no compensation for his published work.
Yvette Hus
Speech-language-pathologist and educational consultant specializing in language-literacy disabilities and executive dysfunction in multilingual youth with diverse
disorders including autism; TAV College instructor; veteran member of the International Association of Logopedics-Phoniatrics (IALP), IALP Child Language Committee
member; IALP Multilingual Affairs Committee consultant; affiliate of ASHA; International Dyslexia Association member.
Financial. Dr. Hus receives a salary from TAV College, Montreal. No other relevant financial relationship exists
Nonfinancial: Dr. Yvette Hus has co-authored and published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Heila Jordaan
Associate professor Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg South Africa; teaches and supervises postgraduate students;
assistant dean undergraduate studies in Humanities Faculty; clinical, teaching, research and publications: multilingualism development: typical and atypical; chair
International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Multilingual Affairs Committee; national and international conferences presenter; invited paper at ASHA (2004).
Financial: Dr. Jordaan receives a salary from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg South Africa. No other relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Heila Jordaan has published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Sharon Moonsamy
A senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her teaching and research interests include language, cognition, and literacy. She is affiliated to local and
international organizations (International Association for Cognitive Education in South Africa and International Association of Cognitive Education and Psychology) and
is a committee and board member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association
(SASLHA), and South African Association for Learning and Educational Differences (SAALED).
Financial: Dr. Moonsamy receives a salary from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg South Africa. No other relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Moonsamy is a committee and board member of the IALP, the SASLHA, and the SAALED. She receives no compensation as a member of these
boards. She has published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Giselle Oliveira
Assistant professor at Touro College. Postdoctoral work from Wisconsin-Madison University. Editorial board member of Journal of Voice. Member of ASHA,
International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, and the Brazilian Speech and Hearing Association.
Financial: She receives a salary from Touro College, New York.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Gisele Oliveira has co-authored and been published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Elin Thordardottir
Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University, Director of Research at the Institut Raymond Dewar in Montreal, researcher at
Reykjavíkur Akademían in Iceland and a certified Speech-Language Pathologist. Her research focuses on developmental language impairment in monolingual and
bilingual children.
Financial. Dr. Thordardottir receives a salary from McGill University, Montreal. : No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial: Dr. Elin Thordardottir has co-authored and published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Carol Westby
Carol Westby, PhD, is a speech-language-pathologist and educational consultant who has written and presented workshops on language-literacy development and
disabilities, theory of mind and social-communication impairments, and multicultural issues in assessment and intervention. She has received the Honors of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing association.
Financial: Dr. Westby will be receiving an honorarium from Lehman College for this workshop. She consults for the Bilingual Multicultural Services, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. She receives honorariums for her speaking events and workshops.
Nonfinancial: She has published in peer-reviewed journals. She receives no compensation for her published work.
Regular registration: Attendance including 1.0 CEUs: $195.00 for two
days (Thursday, Sept 17 and Friday, Sept. 18). To receive 1.0 CEUs
you are required to attend both days.
FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION PRIOR TO AUGUST 1, 2015 ($175.00
for both days)
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Speech and Hearing Center- Room 133
Lehman College, CUNY
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, NY 10468-1589
Refund of the registration fee requires notice of cancellation prior to August 21, 2015
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