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“La Caixa” funded our project about cyberbullying and SNES

The Social Observatory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation has granted its support to I+DELab project “Cyberbullying victimization in Spanish adolescents with specific needs of educational support (SNES): involvement and psychosocial outcomes”, lead by Àngels Esteller. The call for projects of the “la Caixa” Foundation is addressed to research projects based on surveys that, in a […]

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Victimization and perceived social skills in children with Language Disorders

Frontiers in Psychology recently published our paper (Sureda-Garcia et al. 2021) “Associations Between Self, Peer, and Teacher Reports of Victimization and Social Skills in School in Children With Language Disorders”. Previous studies have shown that teachers and parents of children with language disorders report them to have higher victimization scores, a heightened risk of low-quality […]

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Participation in ANAR Conference

Our colleague Daniel Adrover-Roig acted as moderator of the round table on “School Harassment and Cyberbullying”, in the I Conference on Violence and other problems of Children and Adolescents in the Balearic Islands, of the Foundation ANAR, which took place on November 19 and 20, 2021. We share here the videos of the conference: Video […]

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Josep A. Pérez-Castelló, designated Director

The Chancellor of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) appointed our team member Josep A. Pérez-Castelló as Director of the Office of Teaching Support. The Office of Teaching Support was created in 2017 with the aim of facilitating academic tasks for teachers and improving the quality of teaching in the UIB.

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Do bilinguals outperform monolinguals in switching tasks?

The benefits of bilingualism in executive functions are highly debated. Even so, in switching tasks, these effects seem robust, although smaller than initially thought. By handling two languages throughout their lifespan, bilinguals appear to train their executive functions and show benefits in nonlinguistic switching tasks compared to monolinguals. Nevertheless, because bilinguals need to control for […]

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Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla designated Director of IRIE

Our team member Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla was designated Director of the institute for educational research and innovation (Institut de Recerca i Innovació Educativa, IRIE). The IRIE is dedicated to scientific research and innovation in the fields of education and training. One of the institute main functions is facilitating knowledge transfer in order to improve educational quality. […]

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New paper validating the Spanish adaptation of CBVS-R

This week, an article by the I+DELab research group has been published in the journal Psicothema, entitled “California Bullying Victimization Scale-Retrospective (CBVS-R): Validation of the Spanish Adaptation”. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2020.407 In this article, the retrospective version of the Californa Bullying Victimization Scale (CBVS-R) was translated and adapted into Spanish, a self-report scale specifically designed to assess, in […]

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“Clasroom intervention in inhibitory control in children with and without language disorders”.

Jorge L. Guirado, Eva M. Aguilar, Victor Sánchez-Azanza, Mario Valera and Daniel Adrover, members of the I+DElab, have published an article in the magazine “Revista de Investigación en Logopedia” in their special issue of 2021, entitled “Clasroom  intervention  in  inhibitory  control  in  children  with  and  without  language  disorders” https://doi.org/10.5209/rlog.69256 The objective was to evaluate the […]

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Social variables as a risk factor in DLD

Mario Valera, Daniel Adrover and Eva Aguilar, members of the I+DElab laboratory, have published an article in the journal “Language, Society and Culture”, entitled “Social variables as a risk factor, protection factors and consequent difficulties in language: a holistic vision”. Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is defined as a persistent language difficulty that affects people’s lives […]

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Language in students with ADHD

Josep A. Pérez Castelló, a member of the I + DELab laboratory, and Helena Alvarado Alonso have published in the magazine “Llenguatge, Societat i Comunicació”, an article on how the language of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) develops. This article’s objective has been to summarize and synthesize the most critical current papers related to […]