Sara Trovato

sara trovatoSara Trovato earned her PhD in Philosophie et Lettres in 2000 from Université Catholique de Louvain.
She has worked in various Italian universities teaching Didactics for Deaf students, Sociology of Education, Italian Literature, General Sociology, Methodology of Sociological Research, Political Philosophy.
She has published both theoretical and empirical papers dedicated to the right to Sign Languages, deaf children in kindergarten, and the educational and social condition of Deaf people.

In the domain of education for Deaf students, she coordinated and co-authored Corso di italiano per chi non sente (e per i suoi compagni udenti) (2013, Milano: Raffaello Cortina), the first book of Italian for deaf students over 11 years of age. She also published Insegno in segni. Linguaggio, cognizione, successo scolastico per gli studenti sordi. (2014, Milano: Raffaello Cortina), a work intended for teachers and professionals working with Deaf teen-agers.
In the domain of Sign language teaching, she has coordinated and co-authored Insegnare e imparare la LIS. Attività e materiali per il docente, lo studente e l’autoapprendimento (2020, Trento: Erickson).

She presently teaches Italian language at Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris.

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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