Twilight Lecture by Bencie Woll, Monday 13 July
The next Twilight Lecture will be given by Bencie Woll. The free event, "Language and the Deaf Brain" will take place on Monday 13th July at 5.30pm at The Ear Foundation.
Bencie Woll is professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the Department of Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences at University College London and also the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre – the largest centre of its kind in the world.
Before coming to London, she was at Bristol, where she first worked on language acquisition and then was a co-founder of the Centre for Deaf Studies, pioneering research on the linguistics of BSL and on Deaf Studies. Her research and teaching interests embrace a wide range of topics including the development of language in young deaf children, developmental and acquired sign language impairments, and the deaf brain.
This talk takes as its starting point the fact that all human communication is essentially multi-channel. It will explore this multi-modality – both in spoken language and sign language, through explorations of speech and sign processing, and functional imaging studies of language and the deaf brain.
Research in this area helps us understand how visible speech enhances multimodal speech perception, how age of acquisition of a first language impacts on brain development, and the importance of early exposure to accessible language for all deaf children.
The lecture is free and starts at 5.30pm, with tea and coffee served from 5pm, and will end by 7pm.
To register to attend the lecture at The Ear Foundation, simply register online.
