The Dyslexia Foundation

EXTRAORDINARY BRAIN SERIES SYMPOSIA

I. June 1987, Florence, Italy.  Symposium Director: Albert M. Galaburda.
Galaburda, A. M. (Ed.). (1990). From reading to neurons. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press.

II. June 1990, Barcelona, Spain. Symposium Director: Albert M. Galaburda.
Galaburda, A. M. (Ed.). (1992). Dyslexia and development: Neurobiological aspects of extraordinary brains. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/Harvard University Press.

III. June 1992, Santa Fe, NM. Symposium Director: Paula Tallal
Chase, C., Rosen, G., & Sherman, G.F. (Eds.). (1996).  Developmental dyslexia: Neural , cognitive, and genetic mechanisms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

IV. June 1994, Kauai, Hawaii. Symposium Director: Benita Blachman.
Blachman, B.R. (Ed.). (1997). Foundations of reading acquisition and dyslexia: Implications for early intervention. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

V. June 1996, Kona, Hawaii. Symposium Director: Drake Duane.
Duane, D.  (Ed.).  (1998). Reading and attention disorders: Neurobiological correlates. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

VI. June 1998, Kona, Hawaii. Symposium Director: Barbara Foorman.
Foorman, B.  (Ed.).  (2003). Preventing and remediating reading difficulties: Bringing science to scale.  Baltimore: York Press.

VII. June 2000, Crete, Greece. Symposium Director: Maryanne Wolf.
Wolf, M.  (Ed.).  (2001). Time, fluency, and dyslexia. Baltimore:  York Press.

VIII. October 2001. Johannesburg, South Africa.  Symposium Director: Frank Wood.
Multilingualism and dyslexia. No publication.

IX. June 2004, Como, Italy. Symposium Director: Glenn Rosen.
Rosen, G.  (Ed.).  (2005). The dyslexic brain: New pathways in neuroscience discovery.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

X. June 2007, Campos do Jordao, Brazil. Symposium Directors: Ken Pugh and Peggy McCardle.
Pugh, K. & McCardle, P.  (Eds.).  (2009). How children learn to read: Current issues and new directions in the integration of cognition, neurobiology and genetics of reading and dyslexia research and practice.   New York: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

XI. January 2010, Taipei, Taiwan. Symposium Directors:  Peggy McCardle, Ovid Tseng, Jun Ren Lee & Brett Miller.
McCardle, P., Miller, B., Lee, J.R., & Tseng, O.  (Eds.).  (2011).  Dyslexia Across Languages: Orthography and the Brain-Gene-Behavior Link. 

XII. June 2011, Cong, Ireland. Symposium Directors: April Benasich & Holly Fitch.
Benasich, April A. & R. Holly Fitch (Eds.) (2012). Developmental dyslexia: Early precursors, neurobehavioral markers, and biological substrates. 

XIII. June 2012. Talinn, Estonia. Symposium Directors: Brett Miller & Laurie Cutting.
Miller, B., Cutting, L., & McCardle, P. (Eds.) (2013). Reading Comprehension: Unraveling its behavioral, neurobiological and genetic components. 

XIV. June 2014. Horta, Faial Island, The Azores. Symposium Directors: Carol Connor & Peggy McCardle.
McCardle, P. & Connor, C. M. (Eds.) (2015). Reading Intervention: Research to Practice to Research. 

XV. June 2016. Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis – 30 Years Later.
Galaburda, A., Gaab, N., Hoeft, F., & McCardle, P. (2017). Dyslexia and Neuroscience: The Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis, 30 Years Later. 

XVI. May 2018. St. Petersburg, Russia. Symposium Directors: Elena Grigorenko & Yury Shtyrov.
Grigorenko, E., Shtyrov, Y., & McCardle, P. (Eds.) (2019). All about Language: Science, Theory, and Practice. Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes Publishing, Inc.

XVII. June 2018. Cathedral Peak, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Symposium Directors: Julie Washington & Don Compton.
Julie Washington, Donald Compton, & Peggy McCardle (Eds.) (2020). Dyslexia: Revisiting Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Policy. Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes Publishing, Inc.

XVIII. 2020-2021 No Physical Meeting (Covid-19). Symposium Director: Nicole Patton Terry.

Gwendolyn Cartledge and Shobana Musti-Rao. (2020). Diverse, Vulnerable Learners in Special Education: Policy and System Analysis to Improve Educational Quality. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

Patton Terry, N., Zuckerman, A. P., & McCardle, P. (Eds.). (2022). Education and Intervention in Vulnerable Student Populations: Science and Practice. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

Patton-Terry, N., Zuckerman, A.P., McCardle, P.M. (Eds.). (2022). Centering Equity: Creating Systems for Equitable Reading Achievement in Schools. Perspectives on Language and Literacy.

Patton-Terry, N., Zuckerman, AP., McCardle, P.M. (Eds.) (2023) Recognizing, Preventing, and Intervening for Dyslexia in Vulnerable Students. The Elementary School Journal.

XIX. June 2022. Paget, Bermuda. Symposium Director: Laurie Cutting.
Astrid Zuckerman, Laurie Cutting, & Peggy McCardle (Guest Assoc. Editors). (2023). Executive Functions, Reading and Dyslexia. Mind, Brain, & Education. Special Issue.

XX. June 2024. Malta. Symposium Director: Sharon Vaughn.
Forthcoming. Extending Our Knowledge of Context, Theory, Neuroscience, and Learning To Improve Treatments For Students With Dyslexia. Mind, Brain, and Education.

 

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