PROGRAM

June 1, 2013. Miramar Palace.

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture 1: The diagnosis of dyslexia and the different reading profiles. Anne Castles - Macquarie University, Australia

10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Lecture 2: Refining our understanding of developmental dyslexia and co-occurring difficulties. Joel B. Talcott - Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham UK

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Keynote Lecture 3: The dominant theoretical perspective and the difficulties with learning to read and write in a regular orthography. Heinz Wimmer - University of Salzburg, Austria

12:30 - 13:30 Keynote Lecture 4: Dyslexia in transparent languages: The case of Spanish. Manuel Carreiras - Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, Spain

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch

15:00 - 16:00 Keynote Lecture 5: Dyslexia remediation programs: What to look for and how to pick one? Sylviane Valdois - Université Pierre Mendès-France

16:00 - 17:00 Keynote Lecture 6: The neural and genetic bases of dyslexia. Franck Ramus - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 - 18:30 Linking research with educational policy: Insights from monolingual and bilingual schooling contexts. Marketa Caravolas - Bangor University, UK

18:30 - 19:00 Round table and discussion