APHASIA and LINGUISTICS network in Malaysia and Indonesia

Saturday 24th August 2019

Heriot-Watt Malaysia Putrajaya SR1 (E 1.13-1)

9.00 Introduction and welcome.

9.10 – 9.40 Bernard A J Jap (IDEALAB, CLCG, University of Groningen). Towards

identifying dyslexia in Standard Indonesian: the development of a reading assessment
battery.

9.40 – 10.10 Mohd Azmarul A Aziz (Cheras Rehabilitaton Hospital, Ministry of Health
Malaysia) Aphasia research in Malaysia: Where are we now?

10.10 – 10.40 Coffee break

10.40 – 11.10 Sajlia Binte Jalil (National University of Singapore). Bilingual assessment
and intervention studies for language and cognition in the Singapore population.

11.10 – 11.40 Hiroki Nomoto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). Passive subtypes in
Malay: their structures, frequencies and diachrony.

11.40 – 12.10 Rogaya Razak (University Kebangsaan Malaysia). Language assessment

tools in Malaysia: Malay Preschool Language Assessement Tool (MPLAT).

12.10 – 12.40 Harwintha Anjarningsih (Universitas Indonesia, Depok). How Indonesian

can contribute to theoretical developments in Aphasiology and Neurolinguistics.

12.40 – 13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.20 Lunch

14.20- 15.00 Jessica Price (University of Reading Malaysia). TBC

15.00 – 15.30 Wong Tze Peng (University of Nottingham Malaysia). Culture, joint attention
and emergence of language in children with autism.

15.30 – 16 Coffee break

16.00- 16.30 Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University) Linguistics and Aphasia. What have
we captured so far?

16.30 – 17.30 Short and Long term priorities on language pathologies in Malaysia and
Indonesia.

17.30 End of the day