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Toward a skillful psychology.- Waves and streams of symbolization: Notes on the development of symbolic capacities in young children.- Graphic Skills.- The use of communication tasks to investigate depiction of spatial relationships in young children’s drawings.- Intellectual realism in adults’ and children’s copies of cubes and straight lines.- The conservatism of children’s drawing strategies: At what level does stability persist?.- Children’s representations in drawing and speech: Content, structure and context.- Young children’s planning strategies and early principles of spatial organization in drawing.- Individual drawing styles of three children from five to seven years.- Children’s sensitivity to aesthetic properties of line drawings.- Reading and Spelling.- Microethology of spelling behaviour in normal and dyslexic development.- Phonological impairment in Italian: Acquired and developmental dyslexia.- Interaction of symbol systems in reading.- Bi-alphabetism and word recognition.- The development of strategies in the acquisition of symbolic skills.- The development of phoneme segmentation skills in young children.- Understanding the alphabetic system.- Patterns of writing errors in the framework of an information-processing model of writing.- The psychological productivity of inflectional and derivational morphemes.- Symbolic Skills in the Deaf.- Symbolic skills in the deaf: Some recent developments in research.- Meaning in sign: Recalling events in British Sign Language and English.- Early sign language acquisition and cognitive development.- The semantics of early deaf communication: Object acquisitive volitionals.- The development of symbolic play in young deaf children.- Language, deafness and mathematical reasoning.- Musical Skill.- Is music a symbolic skill? Introduction.- The perception of musical pitch - A sense of scale.- The initial identification of tonal centres in music.- Towards a contour-pitch continuum theory of memory for melodies.- Reproduction and representation of musical rhythms: The effects of musical skill.- A preliminary investigation of motor programming in piano performance as a function of skill level.- Logical Skill.- Logical development: Introduction.- What preschoolers know about animate and inanimate objects.- Knowledge-derived categorization in young children.- Perception of inclusion in collections of objects.- Semantic and cognitive factors in class-inclusion and co-extension performance.- On the generalizability of conservation: Context and transformation.- Map and Navigational Skill.- Maps and navigation: Introduction.- Maps and memorability.- Children’s plan drawings of their houses.- Mental imagery and mental maps.- Spatial representations of taxi drivers.- First Language Acquisition.- Symbolic skill acquisition in language: Introduction.- The role of symbolic thought in language development.- On the acquisition of the notion of types of flying objects: Support for prototype-based theories of word meaning development.- A study of children’s writings in non-instructional settings.- Hidden meanings: The role of covert conceptual structures in children’s development of language.- Second Language Acquisition.- Second language acquisition: Introduction.- Universal grammar and second language acquisition.- Similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition: Setting the parameters of universal grammar.- The predictive role of the theories of markedness and language transfer in second language acquisition.- Cerebral organization in bilingual and deaf subjects.- Mathematical Skill.- The acquisition of mathematical skills: Introduction.- Numerical representation from infancy to middle childhood: What develops?.- Young children’s ideas about the written number system.- Cognitive factors in children’s arithmetic errors.- Effects of reference domain in children’s comprehension of coordinate graphs.- Exploring difficulties in transforming between natural language and image based representations and abstract symbol systems of mathematics.- Abstracts: Poster displays and other papers given at the conference.- Participants.- Author Index.