International Network on Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA)

Research teams

The International Network on Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA) was initiated in 2016 and involves 12 research teams headed by the following researchers:

Jeannette Schaeffer (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) (PI)

Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Flavia Adani (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Maria-Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Mikhail Kissine (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Theodoros Marinis (University of Reading, UK)

Ira Noveck (Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France)

Rama Novogrodsky (University of Haifa, Israel)

Alexandra Perovic (University College London, UK)

Philippe Prévost and Laurie Tuller (Université de Tours, France)

Arhonto Terzi (Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras)

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge, UK)

Funding

The network is funded by an NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities grant, awarded to Jeannette Schaeffer.

General aims

This collaboration aims to contribute to our understanding of the nature and the development of language (in)abilities in children with ASD across languages.

In addition to organizing meetings with the network members, we intend to organize two larger international workshops, construe a website serving as a digital platform for practitioners and language-in-autism researchers, set up a database for experimental materials, and organize short-term research exchanges.

Meetings

A kick-off workshop was held on March 23, 2017 in Amsterdam, organized by Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Hendriks.