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And what about romance languages? Atypical language development in languages coming from latin.

We present a manual edited by Eva Aguilar, Lucía Buil, Raül López, Víctor Sánchez and Daniel Adrover, all members of the I+DEL research group, and published by the renowned editorial John Benjamins. In this book we find the results of studies, carried out with children speaking romance languages, on the four main causes of atypical […]

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Our research team demonstrates that bilingual children with specific language disorder present a greater risk of academic failure.

The I+DEL research group of the Balearic Islands University (UIB) conducts an investigation on the academic performance of bilingual children with specific language disorder and how to improve it. The UIB journal dedicates a section to the study. You can read the article here.

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Do bilinguals get less distracted? Results from an auditory-visual Oddball task

Presented at XIV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (Tarragona, April 10th – 13th, 2019) Authors Daniel Adrover-Roig *, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor Sanchez-Azanza , Lucía Buil-Legaz , Fabrice Parmentier & Eva Aguilar Mediavilla Corresponding author daniel.adrover@uib.es Abstract Forty-eight monolingual and 60 bilingual young adults performed an auditory-visual oddball task in which they categorized digits as odd or even […]

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Manual on the neuropsychological evaluation of language.

PhD. Eva Aguilar writes a chapter on oral language difficulties which is included in the manual “Evaluación Neuropsicológica del Lenguaje”. Within this manual every chapter is dedicated to a specific aspect of language (oral and written language comprehension and production, prosody, pragmatics…) and the theoretical models on them coming from cognitive psychology. Thus, in every […]

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What is DLD?

In I+DEL we have created a new infographic (in Catalan) that shows clearly what DLD is. To download the image in PDF format click here.

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Conference: “School natural intervention techniques: Introduction”.

Next Friday March 22nd of 2019 we will be holding the conference: “School natural intervention techniques: Introduction” from 17:30h to 19h at the Conference Room of the Guillem Cifre de Colonya building. You can sign up to the session here. For more information you can also write to eva.aguilar@uib.es Organized by: Facultad de Educación, Grupo de […]

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#CongrésTéNomDeDona Women researchers at the Balearic Islands University

On december 12th, the Balearic Islands University has honored the women doing research at the university, considering their important role in science. #CongrésTéNomDeDona (Congress is a woman’s name) campaign talks about considering women highly than it has been done. This project has been developed around two different but complementary things. First of all, there’s a […]

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We organized a Workshop for Health workers focused on Language Disorder

On November, 28th we organized a Training for Health workers focused on Language Disorder, that takes part from a Refresher Course in Mental-Health in Kids and Teenargers (2018)  During that morning, I+DEL members were talking about Neurodevelopmental Disorders, different types of Language Disorder, Language disorder associated with biomedical conditions: ASD, intellectual disability and deafness; comorbidity […]

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On November 15th, 16th and 17th we were at the AITANA Congress in Palma.

On November 15th, 16th and 17th we were at the  International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology on Children and Adolescents (AITANA) that has arrived this year 2018 to Mallorca. It comes from a long journey that began in Elche in 2011, when it was only a national congress of basically university scope. It has been […]

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Characteristics and behavioral difficulties in preadolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment

Presented at International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology on Children and Adolescents (AITANA) Authors Aguilar-Mediavilla, E., Valera-Pozo, M., Buil-Legaz, L. Contact with the main author eva.aguilar@uib.es Abstract People with specific language disorder (SLI) have a history of problems regarding language acquisition without the presence of those variables that tend to explain this issue such as, deafness, cognitive impairment, […]