i+DELab
Yesterday, January 26 2023, our team member Mario Valera-Pozo defended his doctoral thesis entitled “School Bullying Associated with Language: Indicators and Predictors” in the Graduation Room of the Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda building, on the campus of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). The thesis was supervised by Dr. Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla and Dr. […]
On Saturday 18 February 2023, the 3rd Training Day on Language Difficulties will take place in Palma, within the framework of the Degree in Speech Therapy of the University of UVic-Ucc and the UOC, together with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). The conference has the approval of training hours by the Conselleria d’Educació […]
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the professional body for speech and language therapists in the UK, has recently published a podcast about one of our articles published in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (you can know more about the article here). In the podcast, Àngels Esteller, a member of I+DEL […]
Our group participates next November 25th in a series of outreach events promoted by the Unit of Dissemination and Scientific Culture of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). These are relatively informal meetings (morning snacks included) in which different research teams will present a small part of their projects. Here is all the information and […]
Our paper “Academic outcomes in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A longitudinal study.” published in Frontiers in Psychology, has recently been summarized and featured on the Engage with DLD website. This project aims to help increase awareness and accessibility of DLD research by translating academic papers into easy-to-read summaries for parents of children with […]
This month (september 2022), our team was in Girona for the X International Congress on Language Acquisition. Our participation included two posters and the chairing of a series of oral presentations about phonetic-phonological difficulties in language development by our director, Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla. We want also highlight that Dr. Aguilar-Mediavilla was elected president of the Association […]
Dr. Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla contribution to the book “Fem l’escola plurilingüe” (2022) includes the following material as a free downloadable appendix: Phonological approaches between languages The document illustrates the comparison of vowelic and consonantic phonemes of five languages: Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English. Reference Aguilar‐Mediavilla, E. (2022). Aproximacions fonològiques entre llengües i desenvolupament del sistema […]
The website Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (engage-dld.com) echoed our paper Retrospective bullying trajectories in adults with self‐reported oral language difficulties, published in International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. Our study shows the heightened risk that children and adolescents with language difficulties to suffer from bullying victimization throughout their academic life. Therefore, it highlights […]
We recently published a new article in the International Journal of Language & Communication disorders, which you can read in full here. In this article we evaluated a wide sample of 2259 adults who completed self-reports on their difficulties in oral language (in various aspects of expressive and receptive domains). In addition, participants also reported past experiences […]
Our group participated in the catalan translation of the MB-CDI. The answer booklets for this tests can be downloaded for free at: CDI-I 8-18 months CDI-II 16-30 months Reference Serrat, E., Aguilar-Mediavilla, E., Sanz‐Torrent, M., Andreu, L., Amadó, A., Badia, I., & Serra, M. (2022). Inventaris del desenvolupament d’habilitats comunicatives MacArthur-Bates en català. Guia d’ús […]