Universitat de les Illes Balears in collaboration with Language Acquisition and Language
Processing Lab, NTNU – Trondheim
November 19th, 2021 at Sa Riera Building Aula 23
10.00 – 10.45: MILA VULCHANOVA & VALENTIN VULCHANOV (NTNU, Norway) –
Exploring cognition and communication in autism
10.45 – 11.15 coffee break
11.15 – 12.00: DAVID SALDAÑA (USE, Spain) – Executive function and reading
comprehension: the case of autism
12.00 – 12.45: EVA AGUILAR-MEDIAVILLA & DANIEL ADROVER-ROIG (Department of
Pedagogy and Educational Psychology and Institute of Research and Innovation in Education
(IRIE), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) – Relationships between linguistic competence,
executive control, and socioemotional skills
12.45 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 14.45 ESTELA GARCÍA-ALCARAZ (UIB) & JUANA M. LICERAS (University of
Ottawa) -“The Bilingual Advantage” meets individuals with genetic syndromes. The case of
Spanish/Catalan bilinguals with Prader-Willi Syndrome
14.45 – 15.30 KENNY COVENTRY (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, UK) – “Spatial
cognition and spatial language in ageing”
15.30 – Concluding remarks