Silvia Silleresi

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Silvia Silleresi is a research fellow at Bicocca University, working in the Acquirer group led by Maria Teresa Guasti, as part of the ERC Synergy Grant 2019 project, Leibniz Dream. Previously, she was a research fellow at the I3lab (Innovative, Interactive Interfaces Laboratory) at Politecnico di Milano. She obtained her PhD in Psycholinguistics in 2018 at UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours (France), with a dissertation titled “Structural language and nonverbal ability profiles in monolingual and bilingual children with ASD.”

Her primary research interests include first and second language acquisition, as well as the structural language and nonverbal cognitive profiles of both typical and atypical populations, such as those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Previously, she explored the application of new technologies for assessing and training language skills in typically developing children, adults, and children with language disorders. More recently, her work has focused on the cross-linguistic acquisition of morphosyntax and semantics.

 

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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