CHDD plans symposium on early experience

Researchers from the UW and around the country will come together Friday, March 27 from 3 to 4:30 pm and Saturday, March 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to discuss critical issues in early experience and development. The scientific symposium presented by the Center on Human Development and Disability is open to the public and will be held in CD-150, the main CHDD auditorium.

Talks covering the role of early stimulation, how experience influences brain organization across the lifespan, intervention for improving developmental outcomes in the early child-caregiver relationship, the roles of families and peers in social development, the relationship between early experience and mental retardation, and behaviors that provide insight on early mental and social development will be presented.

Presenters include Drs. Leonard Rosenblum, State University of New York; Stephen Suomi, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; William Greenough, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Virginia Gunderson, UW research associate professor of psychology; Kathryn Barnard, UW professor of family and child nursing and psychology; Ross Parke, University of California, Riverside; Sharon Landesman Ramey, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andrew Meltzoff, UW professor of psychology, and Arnold Sameroff, University of Michigan.

For more information on the schedule, call Carolyn Hamby at 543-2832. ¶