Applied Psycholinguistics Lab

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)!

Today is Developmental Language Disorder Day!

This year’s theme is “DLD Around the World,” highlighting that DLD occurs in every language.

Be sure to check out these informative DLD accounts to learn more about DLD:
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SHS alums - reach out to your classmates and come join us to celebrate our 50th anniversary at Homecoming 2023! Can’t wait to see you all!

SHS students, friends and alums: Celebrate our 50th anniversary at the AHS Tailgate Party during Homecoming!

Join us Oct. 21 at Lot 31, two hours before kickoff. RSVP by Oct. 13!

Link: https://emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/88/1827436088.html

Thought for the day 💭