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We present three volumes on the language difficulties that may accompany different developmental disorders.

PhD. Eva Aguilar Mediavilla and PhD. Alfonso Igualada Pérez edit the book “Dificultades del lenguaje en los trastornos del desarrollo” which compiles within three volumes the current knowledge on the different disorders that are associated in a secondary or comorbid way to a language disorder, as well as the specifications for its evaluation and treatment. […]

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Study on the speech profile of bilingual Spanish-Catalan children with developmental language disorder.

The members of the I+DEL research group Eva Aguilar Mediavilla, Lucía Buil Legaz and Víctor Sánchez Azanza publish an article in the academic journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics on the speech profile of 6 years old children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Their study analysed the phonology, at both the productive and perceptive level, of […]

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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 […]