Applied Psycholinguistics Lab

State Farm Center will be lit up tomorrow (7/22) for World Fragile X Day - spread the word to show your support!

Tomorrow night, State Farm Center lights up for World Fragile X Day.

Though rare, Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. An estimated 1 in 7,000 males and 1 in 11,000 females have FXS.

Help us spread awareness about the research into this genetic disorder.

(📸: World Fragile X Day 2024 / Laura Mattie)

UIUC Development in Neurogenetic Disabilities Lab

Congratulations Dr Preza on the successful defense of your dissertation! Your future is so bright and we are so proud of you! ILL~ 🧡💙

Congratulations to Windi Krok and our colleagues in the Northwestern Learn Lab on this recent publication documenting the validity and efficiency of the Sentence Diversity Priming Task for assessing early sentence development with late-talking toddlers.
Department of Speech & Hearing Science at Illinois

Assessing Sentences in Young Children: A Comparison of the Sentence Diversity Priming Task and Play-Based Language Samples Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of measures obtained from the Sentence Diversity Priming Task (SDPT), a structured...

Congrats to APL graduates - Marco Barcenas Consuelo and Sylvia Techmanski 🎉🥳👏 ILL ~

Congratulations to Abby and Sylvia on their fantastic work on examining various measures of early grammar for identifying children with #DLD at age 3 at the #UIUC Undergraduate Research Symposium! #SLP2B

Congratulations to Tracy Preza on receiving this award from the for your dissertation study "Screening DLD at Preschool Entry: Evaluating Novel Measures of Grammar and Effortful Sentence Production.” So proud of you!

May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month! The goal of is to raise awareness about communication disorders and treatment.

In previous years, May was called “Better Speech and Hearing Month”. We are thrilled to see the addition of LANGUAGE into the title. 🥳

We are actively looking for participants for our online research study examining autism screening tools in individuals with Down syndrome. No, you do not need an autism diagnosis or even suspected autism to participate! Please see the link in the picture or the link tree on our profile. Always reach out to us if you have any questions.
National Down Syndrome Society, Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network - DSDN, Black Down Syndrome Association , National Down Syndrome Congress, Down Syndrome Alabama, Down Syndrome of Louisville, Down Syndrome Indiana, Special Olympics Illinois, Best Buddies Illinois

New APL Publication!
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/metrics/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00146

All of these children are combining words together, but they are not all producing sentences. What counts as a sentence? To be a sentence, an utterance must contain a subject and verb. To learn more, check out the “First Sentences” and “Sentence Types” videos on the Grammatical Development 101 YouTube page (link in bio)!