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SUMMARY:CANCELLED EVENT: Social\, educational and new media engagement in 
 adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment - Professor Kev
 in Durkin\, Department of Psychology\, University of Strathclyde
DTSTART:20100309T163000Z
DTEND:20100309T180000Z
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CONTACT:Nichola Daily
DESCRIPTION:Specific Language Impairment (SLI) involves marked difficultie
 s with language in children whose IQs fall in the normal range and in the 
 absence of hearing impairment or neurological damage.  A growing body of e
 vidence indicates that children with SLI experience problems in social and
  educational development.  Rather less is known about how these children f
 are as they reach adolescence and early adulthood.  This talk summarizes f
 indings from a series of studies of social and educational outcomes in ado
 lescents with a history of SLI\, conducted in collaboration with Conti-Ram
 sden’s longitudinal Manchester Language Study.  Uses of the new media (e
 specially\, computer-based) are included because these are becoming a prim
 ary mode of communicating and working for contemporary young people.  In e
 ach context\, young people with SLI do experience disadvantage\, and on av
 erage\, they lag behind typically developing peers.  Yet some young people
  with SLI achieve positive outcomes.  The talk examines variability in per
 formance\, possible explanations and implications for the educational need
 s of this population.\n\n*PROFILE*: \nKevin Durkin completed a PhD in deve
 lopmental psycholinguistics at the Faculty of Education\, Cambridge\, and 
 has subsequently worked in the Departments of Psychology at the University
  of Kent\, University of Western Australia and (currently) University of S
 trathclyde.  He specialises in social and communicative development\, with
  particular interests in language and media use in young people.  
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald
  McIntyre Building\, room GS4)
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