Joint International Workshop University of Bologna and University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology 10-11 ottobre 2018
University of Bologna and University of Pittsburgh
Departments of Psychology
Joint International Workshop
UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING CHANGE FROM EARLY TO COMPLEX SKILLS IN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT: A CROSS-POPULATION APPROACH
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
October 10 – 11, 2018
Iscrizione al link:
https://eventi.unibo.it/understanding-and-promoting-change-in-typical-and-atypical-development
Scadenza per l'iscrizione: 30 settembre 2018
Scadenza per l’invio di abstract per la sessione poster: 22 settembre 2018.
L’evento è organizzato con il contributo dei fondi del Progetto Innovativo nell’Ambito degli Accordi di Cooperazione Internazionali “Implementing a cross-cultural, cross-population and Interdisciplinary methodology for studying development” , responsabile prof.ssa Alessandra Sansavini. Il progetto intende rafforzare e ampliare i rapporti di collaborazione scientifica tra i dipartimenti di psicologia dell'Università di Bologna e della University of Pittsburgh.
PROGRAMMA
OCTOBER 10
9:00 - 9:20 Opening
Vincenzo Natale, Director of the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.
Representatives of Scientific Associations.
9:20 – 9:30 Introduction
Alessandra Sansavini, University of Bologna, Italy.
9:30 - 10:15 Developmental Trajectories and Consequences of Early Motor Skills: Differences between infants at low and high risk for ASD.
Klaus Libertus, University of Pittsburgh, US.
10:15 - 11:00 The dynamic give and take of early communicative development: Verbal and nonverbal communication in parent-child interaction.
Jana Iverson, University of Pittsburgh, US.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Early communication, language and cognitive development in preterm and full-term children: The role of action, interaction, and contextual factors.
Alessandra Sansavini, University of Bologna, Italy.
12:15 - 13:00 Late talking toddlers: Beyond a lexical delay.
Maria Cristina Caselli, Arianna Bello, ISTC-CNR and University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Poster session
15:00 - 15:45 Mechanisms of change: Language intervention under 3 years.
Luigi Girolametto, University of Toronto, Canada.
15:45 - 16.30 Learning by observation or by doing: lessons from atypical development.
Stefano Vicari, Floriana Costanzo, Deny Menghini, Bambin Gesù Hospital, Roma, Italy.
16:30 - 17:00 Motor consistencies between action and gesture imitation and their relation to language skills in school-age children.
Laura Sparaci, Domenico Formica, Olga Capirci, ISTC-CNR, and University Campus Biomedico, Roma, Italy.
17:00 - 17:30 General Discussion
OCTOBER 11
9:00 - 9:45 Sleep as a context for studying bio-behavioral regulation and developmental change.
Anat Scher, University of Haifa, Israel.
9:45 - 10:30 Early life adversity, epigenetics and parental intervention in atypical development.
Rosario Montirosso, Livio Provenzi, Lorenzo Giusti, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25 The development of relational skills in preterm babies according to the severity of prematurity. Francesca Agostini, University of Bologna, Italy.
11:25 - 11:50 Emotion regulation development in preterm and full-term infants: The integrated role of dyadic, maternal and infant factors.
Maria Spinelli, Mirco Fasolo, Tiziana Aureli, University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
11:50 - 12:15 Motion and form perception in extremely preterm children.
Mariagrazia Benassi, Sara Giovagnoli, Kerstin Hellgren, University of Bologna, Italy, and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
12:15 - 12:40 Very preterm birth and academic achievements: reading, spelling and maths.
Annalisa Guarini, University of Bologna, Italy.
Lunch 12:40 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:45 Structural and functional brain development and cognition following very preterm birth in adult life. Chiara Nosarti, King’s College, London, UK.
14:45 - 15:30 From early neuroplasticity to early intervention: The model of neonatal brain damage.
Andrea Guzzetta, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy.
15:30 - 15:55 Early literacy and numeracy skills: early identification and intervention in preschool settings.
Paola Bonifacci, University of Bologna, Italy.
15:55 - 16:20 Playing with numbers counts: the role of parents in the development of preschoolers’ numeracy skills.
Carlo Tomasetto, University of Bologna, Italy.
16:20 - 16:50 General Discussion
16:50 - 17:00 Best poster award
17:00 - 17:15 Conclusion
Pubblicato il: 14 settembre 2018
