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Email:

olga.capirci@istc.cnr.it

Telephone:

+ 39 06 44161519

Fax:

+ 39 06 44161513

Address:

Via Nomentana 56 - 00161 Rome - Italy

Group membership:

Language and Communication Across Modalities Laboratory

Additional details

Profile

Position:

Research Director

Olga Capirci is currently Research Director at the CNR’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Coordinator of LACAM (Language and Communication Across Modalities Laboratory), Coordinator of the Action, Gesture, and Sign language (AG&S) Research Unit. She has been working at ISTC since 1992 and most of her work to date has been dedicated to the study of the co-development of language and perceptuo-motor processes, conceiving language acquisition as semantically driven and embodied. In particular, her research has contributed to enhancing the relevance of a multimodal approach to communication; considering different modalities of expression (e.g. speech, gesture, signs) in children with typical and atypical development (e.g. deaf children, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and autistic spectrum disorders) at different ages and within different interaction contexts and cognitive tasks (e.g. interaction with caregivers, lexical naming tasks, narration tasks). She has also conducted extensive research on the study of how caregivers’ production of gesture and speech can vary in relation to the child's cognitive status, developmental level, and language ability. Her current efforts are focused on the study of the progression from action to language - spoken and signed - and on the continuity from gesture to sign. She is author of over 60 publications both national and international, member of the International Society for Gesture Studies, member of the Directive board of “Italian Psychologist Association” (AIP), member of the ISTC’ Institute Committee and Ethic Committee, member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Child Development Research.

Tags:

gesture

Iconicity

intentional action

italian sign language

mother-child interaction

motor behavior

multimodal communicative development

Publications

Contributo in atti di convegno

2004

Gesto e Linguaggio nella sindrome di Williams

Bello, A., Capirci, O., Volterra, V.

Source: Convegno Europeo sulla Sindrome di Williams, Roma, 2004

Luso del Gesto e della Parola nelle Narrazioni di bambini con sindrome di Williams

Bello, A., Capirci, O.

Source: Comunicazione Parlata e Manifestazione delle Emozioni, Padova, 2004

Articolo

2003

Early linguistic abilities in Italian children with Williams Syndrome

Volterra, V., Caselli, M.C., Capirci, O., Tonucci, F., Vicari, S.

Source: Developmental neuropsychology 23 (2003): 33–58., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Volterra, V., Caselli, M.C., Capirci, O., Tonucci, F., Vicari, S./titolo:Early linguistic abilities in Italian children with Williams Syndrome/doi:/rivista:Developmental neuropsychology/anno:2003/pagina_da:33/pagina_a:58/interva

Profili neuropsicologici del Ritardo Mentale: sindrome di Down e sindrome di Williams.

Caselli, M.C., Capirci, O., Vicari, S., Volterra, V.

Source: 23 (2003): 256–270., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Caselli, M.C., Capirci, O., Vicari, S., Volterra, V./titolo:Profili neuropsicologici del Ritardo Mentale: sindrome di Down e sindrome di Williams./doi:/rivista:/anno:2003/pagina_da:256/pagina_a:270/intervallo_pagine:256–270/volu

Libro o curatela

2002

Indici di rischio del primo sviluppo del linguaggio. Ricerca, clinica, educazione

M.C. Caselli, O. Capirci (a cura di)

Source: Milano: Angeli, 2002

Altro (Documentazione tecnica, Metodologie)

2001

I segni come parole: La comunicazione visiva dei sordi

Capirci O., Giuliani V., Pennacchi B., Volterra V.

Source: 2001

Projects

"CABINA DI REGIA” per il piano cittadino. Secondo piano territoriale cittadino ex legge 285/97

Project Funding:

Other - National

Project Timeframe:

31 May 2003 to 29 May 2004

Olga Capirci