Program of the Functional Literacy for All Seminar
27th May 2019
House of Europe, 124 G. S. Rakovsky Blvd., Sofia
9:00 – 9:15 – Registration
9:15 – 9:30 – Opening: Prof. Svetla Koeva, Prof. Mila Dimitrova-Valchanova
9:30 – 12:30 Morning Session
Chair: Svetla Koeva
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Valentin Vulchanov (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Foundational skills in literacy |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Landaburu (Facultad de Lenguas y Educación of the Universidad Nebrija): Becoming literate in a multilingual environment |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Dorit Ravid (School of Education, Department of Communications Disorders, Tel Aviv University): Text writing as a window to linguistic literacy |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Vito Pirrelli (Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, National Research Council of Italy): Computer modeling of reading problems |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion |
12:30 – 13:00 – Lunch Break
13:00 – 15:30 – Afternoon Session
Chair: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Svetla Koeva (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): Student Literacy in Bulgaria (a brief overview) |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Joel Talcott (Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, UK): Trajectories of delayed and atypical reading development |
| 14:00 –14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30– 15:00 | David Saldaña (Individual Differences, Language and Cognition Lab, University of Seville): Reading disabilities in non-reading disabilities: the case of autism |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Discussion |
