7:00pm-9:00 pm

Private reception for Presenters

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast (Presenters only)

9:00am-11:30am

Presentation: Coming Together:

Initial introduction to and by the invited Panelists.

Establish common ground and discussion points.

• Dennis Choi, PhD, Director, Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute
  

• Breakfast

• intro, lay down ground rules, plans & goals

11:30am-1:00pm

Presenter lunch at The Simons Center

1:00pm-2:30pm

Presentation: Learning from Sign Language

Insight on the sign language linguistics field, with the goal of elucidating the past paradigm shift

Presenters: Carol Padden, Richard Meier, & Michele Friedner

2:30pm-4:00pm

Break

4:00pm-6:00pm

Presentation: Where we are with ASD

Leaders in the ASD social communication field present, with the goal of elucidating gains and areas of need

Presenters: Helen Tager-Flusberg, Stephen Shore, Sanja Cale

7:00pm

Dinner (Presenters only)

8:00am-9:00am

Breakfast (Presenters only)

9:00am11:00am

CLOSED SESSION. Breakout Sessions (4 groups of 5)

Specific theoretical and methodological goals

Session Leaders: Jennifer, Sanja, Mark, Matt

11:00am-12:00pm

Lunch @ venue (Presenters only)

12:00pm-2:00pm

OPEN SESSION. Review Findings from Breakout Sessions

• INTEGRATION.

• Presenters: Morton Gernsbacher, Pamela Block, Melanie Yergeau
  
• Theoretical Integration
• Methodological Integration
  

2:00pm-2:30pm

Break

2:30pm-4:00pm

Presentation: The Road Forward/Where From Here?

• The efforts of the Workshop will be reviewed and organized.
• Specific plans for sustained activities will be outlined, including conducting multidisciplinary, preliminary studies, as well as grant submission plans.

  Discussants: Vikram Jaswal, Jamie McPartland, Noah Britton, Ibby Grace

• Moderator: Jennifer Mattson