Language Development and Disorders Laboratory (LaDD)
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The Language Development and Disorders Laboratory (LaDD), is grounded in the research work conducted over the last twenty years, at our Institute, on cognitive and language development in typical and in "atypical" populations (children at risk for communication and language delay or disorders, children with Specific Language Impairment, children with Down and with Williams syndrome, Deaf children). The final goal of our research in this area is to better understand the language development process and its cognitive and social correlates, from a developmental neuropsychological perspective.
Although these are "basic science" studies aimed at uncovering the nature and causes of both typical and atypical development, our results also have important implications for education and clinical practice. A wide range of behavioural methods are used in data collection: naturalistic observations, questionnaire to parents and/or to caregivers, and specific tests. Some of these instruments are developed by our research group and largely spread.
Current research themes
- Lexicon and early grammar in typically developing children and in children at risk for language
- Neuropsychological profiles in children with cognitive delay
- Language, cognition and education in deaf children
- Assessment of early development of communication and language
- Clinical phonology
Relevant Publications on:
- Communicative and linguistic development and assessment
- Communicative and linguistic development in atypical populations
These pages are a summary of the most significant publications issued by members of the LaDD from 1990 to 2003. If you are looking for publications related to a specific LaDD member, please check also her/his personal home page.
Relevant links
ISTC-CNR links
- Italian version of the MacArthur CDI - "Il Primo Vocabolario del Bambino"
- Neuropsychology of language and Deafness Unit (NLS)
- Sign Language Laboratory (SLL)
- Gesture and Language Laboratory (GaLL)
Links to other websites
- State Institute for Deaf of Rome
- Associazione Italiana Sindrome Williams (AISW -- Italian Association Williams Syndrome)
- Neurology and Rehabilitation Services, Pediatric Hospital "Bambino Gesù", S. Marinella.
- Institute Stella Maris, Pisa
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
- Center for Research in Language, University of San Diego, California (USA)
- Child Language Research Laboratory, Purdue University, Indiana (USA)
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