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UT Arlington Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education to host international gathering of educators, scientists

Tue, Oct 21, 2014 21:20 CET

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Nearly 250 experts in the field of mind, brain and education will attend the fourth biennial International Mind, Brain and Education Society conference being organized by University of Texas at Arlington professors for Nov. 6-8 in Fort Worth. The event, known as IMBES 2014, is the foremost conference for educators, policy makers and researchers developing deeper understandings of the relationships between cognitive science, neuroscience, and educational practice. Marc Schwartz, professor and director of the Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education in the UT

UT Arlington researchers’ study of language samples could lead to earlier diagnosis of language impairment

Fri, Feb 07, 2014 16:04 CET

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A new study by University of Texas at Arlington researchers could lead to better language assessments and timelier treatment for children with language learning difficulties. Jodi Tommerdahl, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions , and Cynthia Kilpatrick, an assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts , found that language concerns among children could be reliably diagnosed by analyzing samples about 100

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UT Arlington Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education to host international gathering of educators, scientists

UT Arlington researchers’ study of language samples could lead to earlier diagnosis of language impairment

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