I am the keynote speaker at the XI Workshop on Linguistics, Language Development and Impairment on April, 18 /18 de Abril - 2024 - held at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/node/2498
I co-authored the presentation with Kate Margetson. Our presentation was titled: "Assessing children's speech in unfamiliar languages: Insights from Vietnamese-English children". Here is the abstract:
There are over 7,000 languages spoken across the world. Communication professionals have the power to enhance everyone’s participation in day-to-day life. However, when working with multilingual children, professionals can focus on their own dominant language, and limit children’s full participation and communication rights to speak home language(s) within families and communities. This presentation provides a clear step-by-step process for how to assess children’s speech in unfamiliar languages using free resources found on the Multilingual Children’s Speech website (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/home). The process will be explained using evidence from VietSpeech (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech), a 4-year research program working with Vietnamese-English speaking children and families in Australia. Participants will learn how to use the step-by-step process for assessing children in any language and support home language maintenance.
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| Presenting the Speech Assessment of Children's Home Languages (SACHL) for the first time |
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| Ana Margarida Ramalho, Sharynne McLeod, Maria João Freitas, Marisa Lousada |
Other presenters are:
- JOSÉ FONSECA (FMUL): Micro- and Macrolinguistic Analysis of the Image "Ladrão de Biscoitos" Oral Description / Análise Micro • Macro Linguistica da Descrição Oral da Figura "Ladrão de Biscoitos"
- ANA RITA VALENTE (IEETA, LASI - UA; ESSLEI; SPEECHCARE), CATARINA OLIVEIRA (IEETA, LASI - UA), LUCIANA ALBUQUERQUE (CINTESIS.UA) & PLÍNIO BARBOSA (UNICAMP): Vocal Aging: Longitudinal Study of Prosodic Changes in Portuguese Public Figures / Envelhecimento Vocal: Estudo Longitudinal de Mudanças Prosódicas em Figuras Públicas Portuguesas.
- TELMA PEREIRA (ESS/IPS; ACENTUAR), VÂNIA RIBEIRO (ACENTUAR; AUDICEN); ANGELA JESUS (ESS/ IPS) & ANA PAULA MENDES (ESS/IPS; IEETA); ProNAR: Rapid Naming by Portuguese Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder / ProNAR: Nomeação rápida por crianças portuguesas com e sem Perturbação do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem
- ANA MARGARIDA RAMALHO (ESSA; CLUL) & MARIA JOÃO FREITAS (FLUL, CLUL); On the Impact of Word Length in Phonological Assessement / Sobre o Efeito da Extensão de Palavra na Avaliação do Desenvolvimento Fonologico
- ALEXANDRINA MARTINS (UAVEIRO; CLUL): Syntactic Complexity in Children with ASD and DLD Complexidade Sintática em Crianças com PEA e PDL CARINA PINTO (ESSLEI; CITECHCARE): Exploring the Impact of Morphological Knowledge in Reading / Explorando o Impacto do Conhecimento Morfológico na Leitura
- ANA SUCENA, CRISTINA GARRIDO, CATIA MARQUES, MARIANA MATOS & ANA FILIPA SILVA (ESS/IPP): Early Predictors of Reading Success in Portuguese Schools /Preditores Precoces de Sucesso Leitura em Escolas Portuguesas
