Dallas IDA 2007 Wednesday Symposium

Brain Plasticity: Lessons for Learning to Read

• Michael P. Kilgard, Ph.D.: How Practice with Speech Sounds Rewires the Brain
• Sandra Chapman, Ph.D., Jacquelyn Gamino, Ph.D.: Brain Plasticity and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation of Strategic Learning Deficits in ADHD
• Daniel Koo, Ph.D.: The neural signature of reading in deaf individuals
• Kenneth Pugh, Ph.D.: Reading in the developing brain and learning strategies
• Kurt Fisher, Ph.D.: Reading and Reading Disorders - What is the role of educational neuroscience?

Denver IDA 2005 Symposium

Wednesday

• Guinevere Eden: The Brain and Dyslexia

Friday

• Paul J. Laurienti: Multisensory Integration in the Brain
• James R. Booth: The neural substrate of the development of auditory and visual word representations
• Guinevere Eden: Multisensory Intervention

Saturday

• Guinevere Eden: Remediation Developmental Dyslexia

2004 IDA Conference Symposium:

The Neural Basis of Reading and Other Forms of Skill Acquisition

• Avi Karni: Brain basis of skill acquisition and learning: how do they relate to reading?
• Daphne Bavelier: The role of experience in shaping skills: the effects of communication and sensory experience on language in deaf individuals
• Stanislas Dehaene: The biological basis of number processing and developmental dyscalculia
• Isabel Gauthier: Face processing: Is it hard-wired or learned? Evidence from brain imaging studies
• Julie Fiez: Teaching the /r/-/l/ discrimination to Japanese adults: behavioral and neural aspects
• Kenneth Pugh: Reading in the developing brain and learning strategies