Friday, October 09 2026.
Program
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcome
09:00 – 10:00 Jason Yeatman: From the Lab to the Classroom and Back: Bridging the Gap with the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR)
10:00 – 11:00 Michelle Luciano: Genetic essentials (not essentialism) for practitioners
11:00– 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Cassandra Potier Watkins: Building Readers Through Science: Evidence from Kalulu’s Open-Source Literacy Program
12:30 – 14:00 Manon Jones: CAL:ON Cymru: Building an Evidence-Informed Literacy System in a Bilingual Context
Catherine Clark: Prelectocat. Longitudinal data from a Catalan screening tool for early detection of reading difficulties in childhood
Sendy Caffarra: I-ROAR-Word: Validity and reliability of an Italian online screener for single-word reading
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch
16:00 – 17:00 Nadine Gaab: Screening for dyslexia and other reading disabilities: The WHY, WHOM, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW
17:00 – 17:30 Final remarks


