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Sonali Nag, Sue Stothard, Poonam NatarajanEnglish / Thematic Symposium& Shanti RaghavanAbout the presentersContact Information:email:Language:Type of Presentation:The Promise Foundation, 346/2, 1st A Main, Koramangala 8th Block,Bangalore 560 095, India.sonalinag@t-p-f.orgEnglishThematic SymposiumSonali Nag is a clinical psychologist with an interest in cognitive science. She is a Research Fellow at University of York, UKand has recently been awarded the very prestigious Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) for her work inIndia. Her research is concerned with language and literacy development especially for children in resource poorcommunities. As an Associate Director at The Promise Foundation, she has for the last 15 years, worked in the field ofspecial needs and community and school based interventions, partnering with government departments and NGOs. Herexpertise is also regularly extended as an international consultant to agencies such UNICEF, Asian Development Bank andthe ILO. Sonali’s association with career counselling programmes at The Promise Foundation has been as a researchpartner, a faculty and a sounding board for new ideas!Sue Stothard has over 17 years’ experience working in the field of literacy and language skills in children. Sue completed herPhD at the University of York, UK in 1992, the focus of her research being reading comprehension difficulties in children.Since then she has worked on a variety of reading related projects including: investigating the long-term effects of earlylanguage impairments, conducting literacy assessments at Dyslexia Action, UK and working as a Consultant to the LiteracyClinic at Newcastle University, UK. Sue is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of York, UK. For the lastthree years she has worked with Professors Maggie Snowling and Charles Hulme, developing the York Assessment ofReading for Comprehension (YARC). The YARC is a new suite of reading assessments for children aged 4-16 years and ispublished by GL Assessment.Shanti Raghavan is the Founder and Managing Trustee of Enable India, a nonprofit organization that works for the economicindependence and dignity of persons with disability across India. She has 12 years experience in the software industry. Morerecently, Shanti is known as a social entrepreneur and is the recipient of the prestigious Ashoka fellowship awarded to socialentrepreneurs across the globe for their innovative and practical ideas to bring about large-scale social change. Shanti is alsothe recipient of the NCPEDP-SHELL HELEN KELLER AWARD IN 2005 for employment of disabled. She is also the recipientof the Karmaveer Puraskar award in 2007 and Sadguru Gnanananda Award in 2008. She is a visiting faculty at Centre forSocial Initiative and Management. She has been a speaker for employment and training of the disabled at variousconferences of NASSCOM, CII, Techshare and international conferences such as Indo-US conference.108IAEVG-Jiva Conference, India, 2010