[CaCL] Fwd: [Cog-announce] Reply Requested: Invitation to Meet with Dr. Letitia Naigles (Univ. of Connecticut)

[William Schuler]

interesting talk

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> From: "Fowler, Stephanie" <fowler at psy.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: March 2, 2017 at 10:30:53 AM EST
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> Subject: [Cog-announce] Reply Requested: Invitation to Meet with Dr. Letitia Naigles (Univ. of Connecticut)
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> Reminder: A few spots left to meet Dr. Naigles! Please reply today!
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> Dear CCBS Members,
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> Dr. Letitia Naigles will be presenting as part of the CCBS Colloquium series on Wednesday, March 8th at 3:00pm (PS35).  Limited meeting times are available for interested faculty. If you would like to meet with Dr. Naigles, please indicate your availability for ALL times below. We will do our best to accommodate, schedule permitting.  We hope to see everyone at the colloquium!
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> Please kindly reply today so that we can finalize the visit itinerary.
> Thank you, Stephanie
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> Tuesday, March 7, 2017
> 6:00 P.M.             Dinner at Restaurant TBD (open to 3 more faculty)
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> Wednesday, March 8, 2017
> 2:15 P.M.             Faculty Office Meeting                 
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> 6:30 P.M.            Dinner at Restaurant TBD (open to 1 more faculty)
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> The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Presents:
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> Dr. Letitia R. Naigles
> University of Connecticut
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> What Variability in Children’s Language Reveals about the Psychological and Neurological Processes of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Typical Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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> Wednesday, March 8th, 3:00pm
> Psychology Building, Room 35
> 1835 Neil Avenue
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> Abstract: Language acquisition research usually focuses on when/at what age children ‘know’, for example, the grammatical constructions and lexical principles of their language. Variability in child performance has been considered to be noise, and/or a signal that better tasks/stimuli are needed. In this talk, I will argue that such variability is actually quite revealing of the processes of children’s language acquisition, in both typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Language and communication impairments are considered to be an important deficit of ASD; however, it is not clear when during development these impairments emerge, nor the extent to which they can be attributed to impairments in core aspects of language per se vs. impairments in other social or cognitive processes. For the past decade, I have conducted a longitudinal study assessing the language development of a group of children recently diagnosed with an ASD, whose language comprehension was assessed using an innovative method for this population, Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL). In this talk, I will discuss IPL and speech data examining these children's acquisition of grammar and vocabulary; I exploit their widespread variability to illuminate possible roles for social, linguistic input, and (most recently) neurological factors in their language development. I conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for advancing our understanding of autism and of language.
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