Chiara Cantiani

chiara cantianiChiara Cantiani è psicologa e ricercatrice presso l’area di psicopatologia dello sviluppo dell’IRCCS Eugenio Medea – Associazione La Nostra Famiglia (Bosisio Parini, LC). Nel 2011 ha ottenuto il titolo di dottore di ricerca in “Psicologia Sperimentale, Linguistica e Neuroscienze Cognitive” presso l’Università di Milano-Bicocca.

Durante il dottorato ha lavorato, sotto la supervisione della Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Guasti e della dott.ssa Maria Luisa Lorusso, ad un progetto finalizzato all’indagine delle competenze morfosintassiche nella dislessia evolutiva.

Dopo periodi di ricerca al Max Planck Institute (Leipzig, Germania) e alla Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA), è attualmente responsabile di un progetto di ricerca finalizzato all’individuazione di marcatori neuropsicologici del rischio di disturbi del linguaggio e dell’apprendimento in neonati all’interno del BABYLAB dell’IRCCS E. Medea.

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  • BIL Seminar "What does atypicality really mean? Language acquisition in autism" - Mikhail Kissine febbraio 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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