@LangLifeLab

Language Across the Life Span Lab, an international hub promoting research and impact activities on language development and language impairment

 HW Edinburgh & Malaysia campus
langlife.co.uk
Joined May 2019
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Elissa Manzi@e_poyner16 Jun 2024
Job opportunity ⬇️ Please do share with colleagues!
UEA Speech & Language Therapy@UEA_SLT6 Jun 2024
Applications are now open for Lecturer in Psychology for Speech and Language Therapy @uniofeastanglia This is a fixed-term 20 month part time post. More info here: shorturl.at/FZWgx Please do share with #psychology colleagues @UEA_Health @UEAPsychology @JobsinPsychol
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Training opportunity for CATs ECR/JCR members: 🖥️ Online workshop: *PPI Facilitation Skills* Facilitators: @ruth_menamin and @GramHanne 🗓️ 29th March 8am-10.00am (UK time) 📩 Contact: [email protected] to secure a place
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This week we’re looking at a paper that examined how exposure to example sentence structures affects a child’s ability to produce well-formed sentences, in children with and without #DevLangDis . The authors of this paper were @MariaGarraffa , Moreno Coco and Holly Branigan.
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IJLCD@ijlcd31 Mar 2022
This year's annual online lecture will be in celebration of the life of Prof James Law #DevLangDis @RCSLT @WileyHealth . We invite everyone interested in children's communication disorders to join us. 22nd June, 0930 BST. Free to sign up here rcslt.org/events/ijlcd-annua…
IJLCD Annual Lecture 2022. Building on the Legacy of Professor James Law OBE - New Horizons in Developmental Language Disorder.

ALT IJLCD Annual Lecture 2022. Building on the Legacy of Professor James Law OBE - New Horizons in Developmental Language Disorder.

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🎈Bilingualism Matters is celebrating its launch as a new spin-out social enterprise on March 30 🗓Don't forget to register to watch our launch event live stream! Sign up here👇 forms.gle/17ehRqiVcSZDyHtcA #bilingualism #language #bilingualismmatters
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lingproof@LProofreading2 Feb 2022
We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵
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How to teach metaphors to kids? Using metaphors! Here's a short piece we wrote with @t_kalandadze and @Eli_Tonini for the series @FrontYoungMinds and intended for kids. Reviewed by Rosa (age 10) & Kirsty (age 9), mentored by @MariaGarraffa & @KarlaHolmboe kids.frontiersin.org/article…

When Dancers Are Butterflies: How the Brain Understands Metaphors

When we speak, we often say things that are different from what we actually mean. For example, at a ballet, we might say that the dancers are butterflies. Dancers are not really butterflies, but this...

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What a lovely Saturday at the UEA open day. Our students represented us amazingly, @CognusTherapies inspired many, and the staff did a pretty good job too. The visitors? ... can't wait to see hopefully all of them September 2022! @UEA_Health
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The SLT team at @UEA_Health would like to give a very warm welcome to Dr @MariaGarraffa, our newest member of the team. Exciting plans ahead already. You can find out more about Maria through @LangLifeLab or langlife.co.uk
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COGG Oideachas@CoggOid18 May 2021
Ceardlann ar líne: Léitheoireacht sa dá theanga. Cláraigh anseo: eventbrite.com/e/reading-in-…
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Join us @UniRdg_CeLM @UCLBiLingo @MultiLingOslo to find out more about our Languages in Lockdown project with #multilingual families. Please RT! 🙏 Link to pre-registration: bit.ly/3sqVZqc
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Given that signed language is ‘written in the body’ what relationship can be observed between the way signers think of their bodies as linguistic vehicles vs other body representations? THREAD based on a recent article from @HWPsych @LangLifeLab & @HeriotWattBSL 1/10
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Being educated in Gaelic – even if you don’t speak the language outside school – still brings the cognitive benefits of bilingualism, according to new research. Here the lead researcher @MariaGarraffa explains all #bilingualism @bordnagaidhlig tes.com/news/speaking-gaelic…

New Magazine Experience

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🌟BRATH NAIDHEACHD🌟 Rannsachadh air bogadh Gàidhlig san àrd-sgoil ag aithris gu bheil deagh bhuaidh aig dà-chànanas an dà chuid air cànan agus air an inntinn Ri leughadh an-seo 👉🏻 gaidhlig.scot/.../gaelic-imm… @HeriotWattUni #Gàidhlig #Bilingualism #Teagasg
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Super interesting UCL conference coming up on doing behavioral research online. beonline.research.sc/2020/sp…
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ITV London
@itvlondon21 May 2020
Face-to-face therapy is shut down in lock down - but a 'communication cafe' is open. Language therapist Sam Bowman gives those with speech difficulties a place to talk. @RagsMartel joined today's session. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Excited to announce 2-3 postdoc positions in developmental pragmatics @UniOslo, associated with my ERC- and RCN-funded projects: #pragmatics #postdocs #DEVCOM jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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Parte oggi il nostro progetto #umorismovirale sui meccanismi linguistici e psicologici della percezione dell’umorismo su #coronavirus. Aiutateci compilando il questionario🙏In palio buoni Amazon e qualche sorriso per sdrammatizzare un po'...@umorismovirale scuolaiuss2019.limequery.com…
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We’re taking part in @ernscot #Explorathon19! Join @MariaGarraffa (@LangLifeLab) to explore the bilingual brain @TheBotanics on Friday, or @AnnaSedda & @BrusaFederico on Saturday @LeithLabs/@Ocean_Terminal to find out how we know our body is our body explorathon.co.uk/edinburgh/
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