SRCD Strategic Plan Conference Schedule of Events*
Friday October 14
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room: Furman Hall 9th Floor
245 Sullivan Street, between Washington Square South and West Third Street
10:00-10:30
Registration & Coffee
10:30-11:00
Introductions and Welcome
11:00-12:30
Panel #1 Foundations to Language Learning and Development
 Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek (Temple University): Language for Reading:
Lessons from the Crib for the Classroom
 Marc Bornstein (NICHD): Early Language Development: Multiple
Methods, Multiple Meanings
 Audience discussion (30 minutes): Moderator Catherine S. TamisLeMonda (New York University)
12:30-2:00
Lunch and Student Research Presentations: Jessica Gutierrez, Cristina
Hunter, Haruka Konishi, Silvia Place, Adriana Weisleder, Rufan Luo
Kimball Hall Lounge
246 Greene St 1st Floor (between Waverly and Washington Place)
2:00-4:00
Panel #2 Perception, Meaning, and Information Processing in Multi-Lingual
Environments
 Barbara Conboy (University of Redlands): An Information Processing
Account of Early Dual Language Acquisition
 Roberta M. Golinkoff (University of Delaware): Trading Spaces:
When Language Meets “Universal” Components in Events
 Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Growing up
Bilingual
 Audience discussion (30 minutes): Moderator: Lulu Song (New
York University)
4:00-5:00
Roundtable Discussion (with audience participation) – Conceptualization,
Methods, & Challenges to Researching Infants from Multilingual Backgrounds
 Panel Leaders: Junko Kanero, Jessica Gutierrez, Cristina Hunter,
Haruka Konishi, Silvia Place, Adriana Weisleder, Rufan Luo
Saturday October 15
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room: Furman Hall 9th Floor
245 Sullivan Street, between Washington Square South and West Third Street
9:00-9:30
Continental Breakfast
9:30-11:00
Panel #3 Language Experience in Relation to Developing Receptive and Expressive
Language Skills
 Nereyda Hurtado (Stanford University): Early Efficiency of Online
Spoken Language Understanding: A Longitudinal Study of Spanish-English
Bilinguals
 Anne Fernald (Stanford University): Language Experience and
Long-term Language Outcomes in Bilingual Latino Children from
Disadvantaged Families
 Audience discussion (30 minutes): Moderator: Ronit KahanaKalman (NY Institute of Technology, New York University)
11:00-1:00
Panel #4 Heterogeneity in Language Experiences and Development: Long Term
Implications
 Erika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University): The Heterogeneity of Young
Children’s Bilingual Experience and Bilingual Outcomes
 Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Lulu Song, Yana Kuchirko (New
York University): Group and Individual Variation in Latino Children’s
Language Development and Experiences
 Mariela Páez and Cristina Hunter (Boston College): Language and
Literacy Development for Spanish-speaking Children: A Longitudinal
Perspective
 Audience Discussion (30 minutes) Moderator : Natasha Cabrera
(University of Maryland)
1:00-2:30
Lunch and Roundtable Discussion: New Insights, Future Directions
Discussion Leaders:
 Allyssa McCabe (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
 Gigliana Melzi (New York University)
 Alison Wishard Guerra (UC San Diego)
2:30-3:00
Closing Remarks – Audience Participation
*Jointly funded by Society for Research on Child Development and Center for Research on Culture,
Development and Education