WELCOME TO DAY 2 OF IDLDRC 2024 – TAKING RESEARCH FROM EVIDENCE TO IMPACT!

We’re now onto our second day of expanding our understanding of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). IDLDRC 2024 is brought to you by our Platinum Sponsor Fremantle Speech Pathology Services.

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IDLDRC is a completely virtual event. Conference content for each day has been built as a ‘course’ of presentations (lessons) for delegates to work through daily. Therefore, each new day of the conference you will need to head back to the conference dashboard and click into the relevant ‘course’ for that date.

Each day at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), the day’s presentations will be released to the IDLDRC online learning platform as follows: 

Day 1 Launch – Monday 9 Sept 2024, 9am AEST 

Day 2 Launch – Tuesday 10 Sept 2024, 9am AEST 

Day 3 Launch – Wednesday 11 Sept 2024, 9am AEST

To convert the above to your local date and time use this website and enter Brisbane, Australia: https://www.timeanddate.com/

Day 2 is packed with more quality DLD research

The Day 2 line-up features Associate Professor Anita Mei-Yin Wong’s keynote followed by 10 research presentations. You can also tune into 2 live Q&A sessions and learn more about how to translate your research with plain language summaries. See more details for each section below.

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Keynote Details | aSSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANITA MEI-YIN WONG

Towards an equitable service for bilingual children with DLD in schools: Where do we go from here?

Bilingual kindergarten children in the United States were much less likely to access speech and language services when compared to their monolingual English-speaking peers. This inequity also exists in other parts of the world and is a long-standing issue that requires a change in practice. In this keynote, Anita will present a critique on making a categorial diagnosis of DLD for bilingual children at school entry in the context of equitable access to services. Anita will discuss opportunities and barriers for the adoption of a proactive approach to language support for children from diverse backgrounds. Anita will also share some take-home messages with speech-language pathologists, educators, parents and caregivers who live or work with bilingual children.

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Anita Mei-Yin Wong is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.  As an ASHA-certified speech language pathologist, Anita has experience working with children from diverse backgrounds in the US and Canada before her academic career at the University of Hong Kong from 2000 to 2022. 

Anita has a successful record of engagement with community partners in research, professional development and public education. She is a member of the international committee of RADLD to help raise awareness of DLD around the world and the co-convenor of the Hong Kong special interest group on Terminology for Child Language Disorders in Chinese. Anita’s current research interests are language intervention in English speaking children and in Chinese speaking children who learn English as an additional language. 

ASSOCIATE pROFESSOR ANITA MEI-YIN WONG’S Q&A

Anita’s live Q&A was held on Tuesday 10 September 2024. However, you can watch the recording in the Day 2 content.

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Thank you! Have a fantastic Day 2 at IDLDRC growing your knowledge of Developmental Language Disorder.