Eleonora Beccaluva

_MG_6627Eleonora Beccaluva is a PhD student in ‘Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience’ under the supervision of Professor Fabrizio Arosio, University of Milano-Bicocca, and Professor Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano.

Eleonora graduated in Psychology at the University of Turin and worked as a research fellow at the Innovative Interactive Interfaces Lab https://i3lab.polimi.it/ of Politecnico of Milan. Her research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of innovative interactive technologies to support disabilities, including immersive virtual reality, social robots, multisensory rooms, and motion-based interaction.

During her PhD she will focus on the detection and enhancement of language and cognitive skills in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and language developmental disorders through the use of immersive environments, mixed reality and Tangible User Interfaces.

Upcoming Events

February 3, 2025
February 10, 2025
  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine February 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm U6, Sala Lauree, Terzo piano

    Abstract
    "Research on language in autism mostly explores delayed acquisition or atypical use, the reference point being language in non-autistic individuals. Such approaches focus on language disability, but somewhat downplay the acquisition routes that may be specific to autism. More specifically, typical language development is known to be intimately linked to socio-pragmatic, joint communicative experiences. Early-onset and life-long atypicality in the socio-communicative domain are core characteristics of autism, and likely explain why language onset is often significantly delayed in autistic children. However, it is also usually assumed that language trajectories in autism should be correlated with an increase of socio-communicative skills, such as joint attention. In this talk, I will review evidence that some autistic individuals may, in fact, acquire language in spite of persisting strong socio-communicative disabilities. I will also present new results that show that some autistic children are interested in language in and of itself, independently of its communicative function, and display enhanced sensitivity to the acoustic and structural properties of the linguistic input."

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