Infant-Toddler Language Development Workshop on August 26

Tina Alvarez
Aug. 7, 2000


The workshop "Infant-Toddler Language Development: Disorders and Interventions" will be held Saturday, Aug. 26 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm. The workshop will chronicle recent advances in understanding the development of language in young children and the treatment of language disorders.

Scheduled speakers are Jeanne Wilcox, Ph.D., professor of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University and Dr. Heidi Feldman, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

This workshop is one in a series sponsored by the Abbey Grunewald Foundation and the UA's department of speech and hearing sciences. Community leader and humanitarian Abbey Grunewald endowed the Grunewald-Blitz Clinic for Communication Disorders in Children in the department of speech and hearing sciences in memory of her grandson, Nicholas Arthur Blitz, who suffered from cerebral palsy and dysarthria. The clinic provides help to families in Southern Arizona who have children with communication disorders.

There is a registration fee of $40 for professionals and $20 for students and includes lunch. Register early by e-mailing lindan@u.arizona.edu or call 621-1819 for registration materials.

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