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LD opportunities

On the off chances that one of LD Blog’s three readers is looking for a position in higher education or organizations concerned with special education and related areas of teaching and research: Check http://SpedPro.org/. Many universities and other agencies post announcements there are open positions.

BDA Conference 08

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.

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Moving

LD Blog, which has been housed on my U.Va.-issue server since its inception, will soon move to it’s formal location at http://LDBlog.com. If you have a link or bookmark to it that has johnl.edschool in it, please update it.

I hope to take steps that will capture mistaken requests and reroute them to the correct location, but I am not expert enough to ensure that these steps will work. So a little human intervention is likely to be needed. Thanks.

Prepare to de-lurk!

de-lukring button Along with my other blogs (and many others’ blogs, too), LD Blog is joining Sheryl’s promotion of National De-lurking Week on Paper Napkin. It’s coming in January 2006. Readers can get a head start on de-lurking by posting comments now!

Meanwhile, I’m looking for a place to put this image in the navigation elements at the right. Suggestions welcome; leave them [ahem] in the comments on this post.

LD or not LD

Here’s a link from India (I think; the domain name is registered to someone in California) to a medical information aggregation site I’ve been watching. I point to it because (a) it may be useful to some readers and (b) because it uses Learning Disabilities as a generic. I’m trying to decide whether to write to the MDs whose name are associated with it and raise the matter. Suggestions?