UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Language,
Reasoning and Early
Mathematical Development
23rd & 24th September 1999
Venue: UCL, Human Communication Science,
Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PG, UK
Tel: 0171-504 4204 - Fax: 0171-713 0861
Email: c.gardini@ucl.ac.uk
Thursday morning 23rd September 1999
9.00 - 9.30
Registration
9.30 - 9.55
Welcome and Introduction
Chris Donlan
Keynote Presentation 1
9.55 - 10.40
Brian Butterworth & David Skuse
Mathematical development in individuals with Turner's syndrome.
10.40 - 11.10
Coffee
11.10 - 11.30
Paper 1
Paper 2
Pekka Rasanen
Richard Cowan, Eva Ganetsou &
Malone Chiu
A comparison of children with developmental
arithmetic disabilities to chronological and
mathematical age controls
Knowing number facts is important but why do
some children have difficulty learning them?
Paper 3
11.30 - 11.50
Paper 4
Catherine Canobi, Robert Reeve &
Phillippa Pattison
Achievement in arithmetic and children’s
working memory
Jenny Ford
Mathematical ability in ten year old children with
specific language impairment
Keynote Presentation 2
11.50- 12.35
Penny Munn
Mathematical development in bilingual children
12.35 -2.00
Lunch
Thursday afternoon 23rd September 1999
2.00 - 3.00
Practice-Based Workshops A (Parallel Sessions)
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Jenny Barrett, Bob Daines &
Pam Fleming
3.00 - 3.30
Sarah Gourlay
The Wallands Project
Strategies for supporting the cognitive process of
perception, memory, reasoning, reflection
Workshop 3
Workshop 4
Alison Marshman & Chris Donlan
Anne Henderson
Pathways to multiplication for children with
language difficulties
Dyslexic pupils and mathematics
TEA
Keynote Presentation 3
3.30 - 4.15
Peter Bryant
Sharing and dividing
4.15 - 4.45
Discussion on themes from Research Presentations and Workshops
4.45
wine reception
Friday morning 24th September 1999
Keynote Presentation 4
Susan Cohen Levine
9.30 - 10.15
Non-verbal maths skills in pre-schoolers - findings of the Chicago Early Childhood Initiative
Paper 5
10.15 - 10.35
Paper 6
Lorna McNab, Nata Goulandris &
Chris Donlan
Kadir Cakir & Mathew Saxton
Phonological and semantic components of early
literacy and numeracy
Tens and ones: Children’s knowledge of the
base-10 system
Paper 7
10.35 - 10.55
Paper 8
Alice Gregory, Ann Dowker &
Jessica Snell
Sylvia Steel & Elaine Funnell
Children’s attitudes to mathematics: a crosscultural comparison
10.55 - 11.15
Learning multiplication facts: A study of
children in England
Coffee
Keynote Presentation 5
11.15 - 12.00
Usha Goswami
Children’s analogical reasoning about fractions
12.00 - 1.00
Poster session
1.00 - 2.00
Lunch
Friday afternoon 24th September 1999
2.00 - 3.00
Practice-Based Workshops B (Parallel Sessions)
Workshop 5
3.00 - 3.30
Workshop 6
Wendy Corrigan & Judy Masters
Eva Grauberg
Exploring the disassociation between
computational skills and mathematical reasoning
in a year 2 child with a diagnosis of speech and
language impairment plus autistic spectrum
disorder.
Visual means to understanding elementary
mathematics.
Workshop 7
Workshop 8
Pekka Rasanen
Catherine Saunders
Internet as a tool for assessment
Teaching methods to counteract the impact of
visuo-motor perceptual difficulties
Tea
Keynote Presentation 6
3.30 - 4.15
Catherine Sophian
Young children’s perception of spatial relations and the development of ratio knowledge.
4.15 - 4.45
Plenary discussion of conference themes