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The newspaper “Última Hora” has published an article on the doctoral thesis of Víctor Sánchez Azanza, a doctoral student and professor in our research group. His work focuses on the influence of bilingualism on the brain’s neurodevelopment, mainly executive functions

The Ser radio has echoed an investigation conducted by Dr Cristian Farias, PhD student in our research group. In this research, to determine this influence, the researcher compared monolingual older people with bilingual ones. Half of the bilinguals were from a very young age (before the…

Cristian Aranda Farías’ doctoral thesis shows that more frequency in the change between languages ​​is related to better cognitive functions in the elderly. With aging, the brain’s cognitive abilities may deteriorate to some degree. This process, which is caused by natural causes, implies that people may…

Physical exercise promotes long-term benefits that are key to avoiding health risk factors associated with sedentary lifestyles. Therefore, efforts aimed at improving physical activity are important, especially in the university population, whose levels of exercise often decrease drastically. A new scientific study published in the Health…

The newspaper “El Mundo” echoes the last article published by our research group on how the use of new technologies influences language children. The results, published in the scientific journal «Children», show that pre-teens who had more access to digital devices, and who used them more often, while…

Alberto Sánchez Pedroche, member of the research group I+DEL, will conduct next Friday the 29th of May a virtual conference where he will define the profile of students or patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), especially with de degree associated to Apserger Syndrome. One of the…

With the development of new technologies and digital forms of communication two new phenomena have begun to worry the scientific community: cyberbullying and internet addiction in youth. Online sites, where anonymity is easily preserved, has generated a space that hinders the detection and the control of…

The Faculty of Education of the Balearic Islands University (UIB), in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Speech Therapy, Phoniatrics and Audiology (AELFA) and the Institut de Recerca i Innovació Educativa (IRIE), have organized two conferences with leading researchers in the field of DLD: PhD. Gina…

The members of the research group I+DEL, from the Balearic Islands University (UIB), Daniel Adrover Roig, Eva Aguilar Mediavilla i Raúl López Penadés have been invited to take part as guest editors on the special issue “Executive Control and Emotion Regulation in children, adolescents, and young…

DLD is characterized by a delay in the correct acquisition of language in absence of any other cause or disorder that could explain such delay. Besides that, individuals with DLD can develop adjustment problems at socioemotional, behavioral and scholar level due to the linguistic difficulties they…

The Economist, one of the most internationally prestigious weekly journal, and The Local, a digital newspaper aimed at English speakers who reside in Spain, publish two articles on the benefits of being bilingual. Both journalistic houses, taking the publications of the research team I+DEL from the…

Little by little is a didactic collection of twenty-one tales that, throughout different stories, intends to accompany children in the learning process of reading. The author, Ramón Bassa i Martín, organizes the content in such a manner that as difficulty progressively increases the learning of children…

The I+DEL group at the UIB publishes three studies on the relationship between bilingualism and cognition  During the past decades, several studies have found evidences that support the concept labeled ‘bilingual advantage’. This concept refers to the supposed benefits that speaking two languages in daily life…

Last november the 8th and 9th of 2019 IRIE (Institut de Recerca i Innovació Educativa) organized the III Meeting on Education Research and Innovation. This is a biennial gathering where the principal actors, in the Balearic Islands, involved in the education field share the results of…

I+DEL organizes side by side with the Catalan Society of Pedagogy meetings and conferences in order to discuss multilingualism in schools. This meetings are aimed to express the necessity of depoliticizing the topic of languages in school, focusing instead on developing, with the help of science,…

This congress, which was held in Madrid from the 4th to the 6th of September 2019, has the aim of spreading the last advances in research related to language acquisition difficulties in children. The research group of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) brought to…

The research group I+DEL, from the Balearic Islands University, publishes an article on the implications of a conceptual shift that has taken place on language disorders in childhood. This article, published in Llengua, Societat i Comunicació , a scientific magazine of the University of Barcelona, goes…

Last 27th of June 2019 Víctor Sánchez presented the results of an investigation carried out by the I+DEL research group at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, held at Palma de Mallorca. This conference has the aim of gathering professionals interested in language processesing and disorders, while encouraging…

Emotions have the capacity to guide our own behaviour, thought and vision of things. Depending on the context, but also on the emotional regulation capacities of an individual, emotions can be helpful or problematic in a given situation. Thus, emotional experience can be beneficial if it…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On November, 15th IB3 Radio interviewied Eva Aguilar, PhD about the Specific Language Disorder. This interview was related to the Training session about Language Difficulties that we organized alongside with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. If interested, you can listen to the interview here. (Keep in mind that the interview…

The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) have created a commitment with Agenda 2030. The OCDS, office in charge of solidarity and cooperation, next to Campus vice Rectorate, Cooperation and Healthy University summoned the Agenda 2030 awards for the Social Transformation and Sustainable Human Development for Final…

On November, 10th we organized a Training Session on Language Difficulties, alongside with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. This event took place in Sa Riera a building from the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma city center, during all day. Attendees could enjoy presentations by Eva Aguilar-Mediavila, Alejandra…

The  17th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference in Malta is celebrated this week in collaboration with ICPLA (The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association). Eva Aguilar, I+DEL member had done a presentation about ‘Speech profiles in Spanish- Catalan children with developmental language disorder (DLD)’, apart from moderating…

On November 23th, 24th and 25th of November Palma will held the 9th National and Ibero-American Congress of Dyslexia and other Specific Learning Difficulties. Its main goal is focused in quality education. This event will take place in Gran Meliá Victoria Hotel (Joan Miró Avenue, 21) For…

Eva Aguilar is currently in the Czech Republic. The 3rd International week at the Faculty of Education at the Palacký University is held in Olomouc. This gathering‘s main goal rises from the idea that researchers and professors from different Faculties of Education should meet and share their ideas…

On September 28th and 29th was held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the 3rd IberoAmerican congress about Dyslexia, organized by Disfam. DISFAM is a Spanish entity created in 2002, integrated by families with children with dyslexia, dyslexic adults and professionals from different origins worried about the learning difficulties at…

An article was published in the Diario de Mallorca and Diario de Ibiza written by Eva Aguilar, senior lecturer at the Balearic Islands University and I+DEL member. This article explains how children feel when suffering from SLI, letting us think about the experience we have when we try to communicate…

Ramón Bassa, emeritus senior lecturer retires from his professional life this year 2018, after 50 years dedicated to teaching. Ramón was a teacher since 1968, he graduated in Philosophy and Letters (Pedagogy Section) by the University of Barcelona in 1975, and obtained his PhD in Educational…