Workshop
Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA)
23
March, 2017
Universiteit
van Amsterdam
Doelenzaal,
Singel 425, Amsterdam
Organizers: Petra Hendriks,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Jeannette
Schaeffer, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Funding: NWO Internationalisation in
the Humanities
PROGRAM
9:00 Welcome
9:30 –
10:00 Linguistic and cognitive
development of monolingual and bilingual children with ASD
Ianthi Tsimpli – University of Cambridge, UK
10:00 – 10:30 Assessing
pragmatic abilities in typical and atypical children
Francesca
Foppolo, Francesca Panzeri and Teresa Guasti – University of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Perspective taking and pragmatics in children
with ASD
Mikhail
Kissine - Université
Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
11:30 – 12:00 Pronouns,
perspective taking and theory of mind in children with ASD
Petra Hendriks
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 (Morpho)syntax, pragmatics and
extra-linguistic cognition in Dutch-speaking children with HFA and with SLI
Jeannette Schaeffer
13:30 – 14:00 Heterogeneity of morpho-syntactic abilities in German-speaking children and adolescents with ASD
Flavia Adani – University of Potsdam, Germany
14:00 – 14:30 The difficulties of high-functioning children
with ASD with morphosyntax may not be due to impaired morphosyntax: Evidence
from environments that require or ban object clitics.
Arhonto Terzi - Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras
14:30 – 15:00 Comparing the use of clitics in experiments
vs. narrative tasks in high-functioning Greek-speaking children with autism
Theodoros Marinis – University of Reading, UK
15:00 – 15:30 Tea break
15:30 – 16:00 Linguistic
profile of narratives of children with ASD
Rama Novogrodsky – University of Haifa, Israel
16:00
– 16:30 Investigating language profiles
across the autism spectrum
Philippe
Prevost & Laurie Tuller – Université François-Rabelais Tours, France
16:30 – 17:00 Heterogeneity of language in ASD: More evidence
for the ALI/ALN distinction from syntax and pragmatics
Alexandra Perovic – University College London, UK
17:00 – 17:30 What conventional language could reveal about
autism
Ira Noveck - Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Lyon, France