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Registration for the British Dyslexia Association Conference 2008 is now open. The meetings are 27-29 March 2008 at Harrogate International Conference Centre in Harrogate (Yorkshire, UK). It should be a worthwhile conference. There is a fine list of keynote presentations.

Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Treating reading disability without reading: evaluating alternative intervention approaches

Bob Burden, University of Exeter
Dyslexia and Self-Esteem

Stanislas Dehaene, Research Director, INSERM
The visual word form area: the brain’s letterbox

Barbara Foorman, Florida State University
Reading and Language Intervention

Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge
Auditory Rhythmic Processing, Phonology and Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Analysis

Barbara Maughan, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Adult outcomes

Kate Nation, University of Oxford
Reading Comprehension Impairments

Richard Olson, University of Colorado
Genes and Environments

Cathy Price, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL
Neuro-imaging studies of developmental dyslexia

Jim Rose: Former HMI Director of Inspection, OFSTED
The Rose review on the teaching of early reading

Margaret Snowling, University of York
Broader Phenotype of Dyslexia

David Sugden, University of Leeds
Moving in the right direction: Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Attention Disorders

Rebecca Treiman, University of Washington
Learning to Spell in English

Aryan van der Leij, University of Amsterdam
International Perspectives

Further details are available on the BDA conference Web site.