CURRICULUM
VITAE
EDUCATION:
Current
occupation
P.h.D.
candidate
(2003-2007), Faculty of linguistics, Department of Dutch,
Neurolinguistics
research group, University
of Groningen. Supervisor:
Prof.
Roelien Bastiaanse. The topic of
my research is clitic production in Italian agrammatic aphasia.
2002
University
of Groningen (The Netherlands).
M.A. degree in
Clinical Linguistics with the
distinction cum laude.
2001
I
got my B.A. in
speech therapy with full grades at the university
of Padua (Italy)
COLLABORATIONS:
2003-2007
Collaboration
with
the University of Rotterdam.
Translation of BOX
(Lexical semantic therapy for aphasic speakers) from Dutch to Italian.
BOX will published in Italian by OS Ed. in the course of 2007.
FURTHER EDUCATION:
2005
'Brain
vision
user workshop'. Hold by
Brain products GmbH. Groningen, 28 February - 2 March
'EEG
course'.
Hold within BCN by Dr.
N.M. Maurits. Groningen, 24-25 February
'Methodology and Statistics in Linguistics'. Ten seminars hold by Prof.
J. Nerbonne
2004
'Methodology
and
Statistics in
Linguistics'. Ten seminars hold by Prof. J. Nerbonne
2003
'Language
contact'. Course hold within
LOT summerschool by Prof. S. Thomason. Tilburg, 16-20 June
'Evolution of language'. Course hold within LOT summerschool by Prof.
D. Bickerton. Tilburg, 16-20 June
'The tool-kit of cognitive neuroscience'. Organized by F.C. Donders
centre for cognitive neuroimaging. Nijmegen, 7-11 July
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND
TALKS
2007
'Workshop on production
and comprehension disorders' (Potsdam, Germany)
Invited speaker: 'Clitic
production in Italian agrammatic aphasia'.
2006
The Academy of Aphasia
(Victoria, BC, Canada)
Platform presentation:
‘Don't give an affirmative order. A negative one is easier!’
Afasie
Jongerendag (Organized by the
Stichting Afasie Nederland). Groningen, The Netherlands
Talk: 'Clitic production in Italian agrammatism'
'Symposium on Multilingualism'. (University medical Center Utrecht)
Invited speaker: 'Bilingual aphasia. A field under construction'
'First day
of
applied linguistics: linguistics and neurolinguistics' (University of
Venice)
Invited speaker: 'Clitic production in aphasia: data from
Italian'
2005
Conference: The Academy of Aphasia
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Platform
presentation: 'Clitic
production in Italian agrammatism’
Conference: Rovereto
Workshop on bilingualism
(Rovereto,
Italy)
Poster presentation:
‘A case of selective recovery of L2 in a
bilingual
speaker’
2004
Conference: The Academy of Aphasia
(Chicago-U.S.A.)
Poster
presentation: ‘An insight
in Small clauses and
Negative
clauses in agrammatism: data from Italian.’
Conference: The
Science of
Aphasia (Potsdam-Germany)
Poster
presentation: ‘Movement
in agrammatism: is the
operation
impaired ‘per se`?’
Symposium on applied linguistics (university of
Venice)
Invited speaker: 'Agrammatic
verb production in Italian, German and a singhle case study in a
bilingual aphasic'
2003
Conference: The
Science of
Aphasia (Trieste-Italy)
Poster
presentation: ‘Agrammatic verb production in
Italian,
German and a single case study in a bilingual aphasic’.
Conference: The Academy of Aphasia
(Vienna-Austria)
Poster
presentation: ‘A single case study of pathological
mixing
in a polyglot aphasic’.
2002
Conference: The Science of
Aphasia (Naples-Italy)
Poster presentation: ‘Bilingual aphasia: a case of
selective
recovery of L2.
FURTHER EXPERIENCES:
2003
Attendance
at
the: XXI
European
Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy)
2002
Attendance
at
the: XX
European
Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy)
2001
Attendance
at
the: IXX
European
Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy)
1999
Göteborg
(Sweden):
The
Socrates
Intensive Programme “Speech and Language Impairments”. A European
management Programme”.
Conegliano
(Italy).
Attendance to the
conference: Severe
head injury: from Injury to a functional recovery.
Padua
(Italy).
Attendance to the
conference: Assessment of the efficacy of the logopedic
treatment. The case of
late- talker children. Udine
(Italy).
Attendance to the
conference: Multilingual education In European Primary
Schools. Linguistics,
neurophsychology, learning and rehabilitation.
1994
Angers
(France)
Intensive course
of French.
1993
Folkestone
(UK)
Intensive course of English
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Italian:
native language
English:
very good oral and written knowledge
German: good oral and written knowledge
French:
good oral and written knowledge
Dutch:
good oral and written knowledge
WORKING AND ORGANIZING EXPERIENCES:
2005
Organization
of
TABU-day: an
international one day conference on general lingusitics at the
university of Groningen
2002
I
worked for three
months as a speech
therapist at the social service of my city.