Third Workshop on Early Language
in NEUROdevelopmental Disorders

NeuroD-WELL


Lisbon, December 15, 2025

Program

Location: Amphitheater II, Main building

 

December 15
8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:15

Opening

9:15-10:15  Chair: Marina Vigário (University of Lisbon)
Keynote speaker: Thierry Nazzi (Université de Paris)
Early language acquisition in infants born preterm [Abstract]

10:15-10:55 Oral session 1
Chair:
Jovana Pejovic

10:15-10:35

Chiara Cantiani, Marco Borromini, Valentina Riva, & Chiara Dondena

(Scientific Institute IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini (Lecco), Italy)

Early electrophysiological markers in language and learning impairment: long-term follow-up from infancy to school age [Abstract]

10:35-10:50

Rida Ahmed a b c , Natalie Boll-Avetisyan b, Jonathan Kjær Grønbæk d, Ditte Boeg Thomsene f, René Mathiasen f, & Vânia de Aguiara g

 

(a Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;
b Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;
c International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB), University of Groningen, Netherlands/University of Newcastle, United Kingdom/University of Potsdam, Germany and Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia;
d Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark;
e Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;
f Department of Neurosurgery, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark;
g Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.)

The role of preoperative speech assessment in predicting postoperative speech impairment in children with posterior fossa tumours (PFTs)[Abstract]

10:55-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-12:40 Oral session 2
Chair:
Marisa Filipe

11:20-11:40

Filip Smolík a, Sean Redmond b, Andrea Ash b, & Klará Matiasovitsová a

(a Czech Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Psychology; b University of Utah)

Predicting sentence recall performance in English-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder [Abstract]

11:40-12:00

Valeria D’Aloia a, Marisa G. Filipe b, Marisa Cruz b, M. Fasolo c, & Sónia Frota b

(a University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Science; b University of Lisbon, Center of Linguistics; c University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Psychology)

The prosody of contrastive focus in children with high-functioning autism [Abstract]

12:00-12:20

Mafalda Azevedo a, Alexandrina Martins b, Marisa Lousada a c, Tatiana Pereira a, & Pedro Sá Couto d e

(a RISE.Health – Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro; b Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL); c School of Health Sciences, University of Aveiro (ESSUA); d CIDMA - Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications, University of Aveiro; e Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro)

Effects of the PROsyntax program in enhancing the syntax of preschool-age children with developmental language disorder and autism spectrum disorder [Abstract]

12:20-12:40

Klára Matiasovitsová & Filip Smolík

(Czech Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Psychology)

Working memory and language knowledge in sentence imitation: Evidence from Czech children with developmental language disorder [Abstract]

12:40-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:30

Special session on the Perception-Production Link in Early Infancy (P2LINK Project)
Chair:
Dr. Miguel Palha

(Child Development Center DIFERENÇAS)

14:30-14:50

Marina Vigário, Cátia Severino, Jovana Pejovic &, Sónia Frota

(University of Lisbon, Center of Linguistics)

Sensorimotor influences on infant speech perception in (a)typical development [Abstract]

15:10-15:30

Sónia Frota a, Cátia Severino a, Jovana Pejovic a, Nuno Paulino a, Marina Vigário a, & Aude Noiray b

(a University of Lisbon, Center of Linguistics; b Université Grenoble-Alpes)

Articulating while listening: The perception-production link in early infancy in (a)typical development [Abstract]

15:10-15:30

Maria Joana Castro a, Cátia Severino b, Jovana Pejovic b, Marisa Cruz b, Marina Vigário b, Miguel Palha c, David Casimiro de Andrade a, & Sónia Frotab

(a University of Porto, Faculty of Dentistry; b University of Lisbon, Center of Linguistics; c Child Development Center DIFERENÇAS)

An oral-motor intervention study in infants with Down Syndrome [Abstract]

15:30-15:45 General discussion

15:45-16:45

Poster session + Coffee break

1. Sudha Arunachalam a, Thuy Buonocore b, & Rhiannon Luyster b

(a Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University; b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emerson College)

Word learning from overheard speech in autistic preschoolers[Abstract]

2. Sampa Bestavasvili

(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Linguistic trajectories in autism spectrum disorder [Abstract]

3. Lyla Parvez a, Mahmoud Keshavarzi a, Susan Richards a, Giovanni M. Di Liberto b c, & Usha Goswami a

(a Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; b School of Computer Science and Statistics, ADAPT Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; c Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Word Imitation and developmental language disorder [Abstract]

4. Tânia Carneiro a, Lénia Carvalhais b, Sónia Frota a, & Marisa Filipe a

(a University of Lisbon, Center of Linguistics; b Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University, Portucalense Human Development Institute)

A systematic review of prosodic abilities in children with dyslexia compared to typically developing peers [Abstract]

5. Sònia Vilaltella a, Ferran Pons b c, & M. Ángeles Mairena c

(a Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; b Universitat de Barcelona; c Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) )

Language development of children with autism: Can we predict language impairments? [Abstract]

6. Elisa Gottardi a b f, Barbara Höhle b, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan b, Ditte Boeg Thomsen c d, Jonathan Kjær Grønbæk e, René Mathiasen d, & Vânia de Aguiar f g

(a International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB), Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; b Universität Potsdam, Faculty of Human Sciences, Linguistics Department, Germany; c Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; d Department of Neurosurgery, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; e Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark; f Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; g Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)

Language before surgery: Lexical diversity in children with posterior fossa tumors [Abstract]

7. Marisa Filipe a, Tânia Carneiro a, Cátia Severino a, Adelaide Mateus b, Marina Vigário a, & Sónia Frota a

(a Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal; b Escola de São Vicente de Alcabideche, Portugal)

Exploring the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a classroom-based prosodic training program for infants and toddlers [Abstract]

8. Kristen Gilyard a, Elena Tenenbaum b, Rhiannon Luyster c, Sudha Arunachalam d, Stephen J. Sheinkopf e, My Vu f, & Elika Bergelson a

(a Harvard University, Department of Psychology; b Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; c Emerson College, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; d New York University, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders; e University of Missouri, Department of Psychology; f Children´s Hospital of Los Angeles, Biostatistics Core)

Word recognition in infants at elevated likelihood for autism [Abstract]

9. Helen Spicer-Cain, Abigail Moran, & Nicola Botting

(City St George's, University of London)

Communication skills of children at increased likelihood of language impairment in infancy and at school age [Abstract]

16:45:17:45

Chair: Sónia Frota
Keynote speaker: Julien Mayor (University of Oslo)
The role of domain-general sensory and motor constrains on early word learning [Abstract]

17:45-18:00 Closing

19:00 Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 


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