Ajouter à votre calendrierLanguage development is the result of a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. During the development, some children – despite the absence of sensory impairments, intellectual disability, brain injury, or genetic syndromes – may show a delay in lexical growth between 24 and 35 months of age.
These children are referred to as late talkers. Most of them, known as late bloomers, will improve their language rapidly starting at around 36 months. However, a subset of these children will continue to experience persistent linguistic difficulties and may receive a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder.
The presentation will focus on the results of the Consensus Conferences on these disorders and describe the cognitive and linguistic characteristics of these children, both in monolingual and bilingual contexts. Environmental effects on language development will also be discussed.
Andrea Marini, Ph.D.
Andrea Marini is Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Udine, Italy, where he teaches courses in Psychology of Language, Language Development, and Neuropsychology of Language. He is also the Director of the Language Lab, which is dedicated to studying the cognitive and neural correlates of language in monolingual and bilingual speakers, both in healthy individuals and in patients across developmental and adult stages.
He is a member of the PhD Board in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Trieste, Italy. He served on the working group for the Italian Consensus Conference on Developmental Language Disorder and as the Italian representative in the EU Action Enhancing Children’s Oral Language Skills Across Europe and Beyond.
Since 2006, he has been Principal Investigator or Research Unit Coordinator of several projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Neurosciences, Psychology, Education published by Carocci and has been an invited speaker at more than 250 domestic and international conferences. He is the author of over 150 publications, including books, diagnostic tools, book chapters, and articles in international scientific journals.