The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) is the leading professional association for academic linguists in Great Britain. View the presentation Raising awareness: linguistics in the university curricula of health sciences, delivered at the Annual Meeting on 14th September 2022.
Language development, diagnosis and assessment in school ages (6-16): next steps in research and practice
27th September – 1st October 2021, Lorentz Center @Snellius / Hybrid
Scientific aims:
The aim was to establish a new way of working on the identification of language needs in children in the age range of 6-16, by integrating workforces from Linguistics and the Health and Education sciences. The workshop, which was international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral, brought together non-academic professionals at the front line of identification and intervention of language needs (medics, speech and language therapists, teachers) with experts in detailed description and analysis of language development (linguists, speech and language therapist researchers, educational researchers) to identify gaps in knowledge of the development of language abilities in the school years in a variety of populations (typical developing, deaf, children with language impairment, children with intellectual impairment) from different countries, and determine a pathway for linguistically-based research on language diagnostics and interventions for language delays and impairments in the school age years (ages 6- 16).
Each day of the workshop had a theme and an intended output identified from the start. A day was organized around a set of short talks, two blocks of discussion in small interdisciplinary breakout groups and a plenary discussion—both in hybrid format—to gather the views of the day and construe the output of the day. The themes of the workshop were:
The participants engaged extremely well during the breakout groups and plenary discussions, and the joint work led to the following outcomes:
