BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16759-323a8bead110da2e9865c856d086572b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T143029Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T103000 SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Gloria Soto DESCRIPTION:\nChildren who cannot rely on speech due to disability can d evelop language through augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) \, which includes aided systems such as speech-generating devices and co mmunication boards with graphic representations\, as well as unaided mod alities such as vocalizations\, facial expressions\, and gestures. Aided language development offers a natural context for examining how linguis tic representations form and how language is processed when children dep end on alternative means of expression rather than speech.\n\nThis talk will present findings from our research analyzing the vocabulary\, gramm ar\, and discourse of monolingual English\, monolingual Spanish\, and bi lingual Spanish-English users of AAC. Our work has relied heavily on the analysis of language samples from these groups to examine vocabulary co mposition\, verb use\, morphological and syntactic errors\, and the comb ination of aided and unaided modalities during production. These samples have provided detailed evidence about how children use AAC across langu ages\, including natural strategies they use to compensate for the restr ictions placed on them by extremely limited vocabulary or by the high op erational demands of their AAC systems.\n\nThe talk will also describe t he development and application of the Protocol for the Analysis of Aided Language Samples in Spanish (PAALSS)\, a tool that supports systematic characterization of Spanish aided language\, and how the study of aided language development contributes to a broader account of language learni ng under conditions of limited speech and alternative forms of represent ation.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/gloria-soto/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Children who ca nnot rely on speech due to disability can develop language through augme ntative and alternative communication (AAC), which includes aided system s such as speech-generating devices and communication boards with graphi c representations, as well as unaided modalities such as vocalizations, facial expressions, and gestures. Aided language development offers a na tural context for examining how linguistic representations form and how language is processed when children depend on alternative means of expre ssion rather than speech.

This talk will present findings from our research analyzing the vocabulary, grammar, and discourse of monolingua l English, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual Spanish-English users of A AC. Our work has relied heavily on the analysis of language samples from these groups to examine vocabulary composition, verb use, morphological and syntactic errors, and the combination of aided and unaided modaliti es during production. These samples have provided detailed evidence abou t how children use AAC across languages, including natural strategies th ey use to compensate for the restrictions placed on them by extremely li mited vocabulary or by the high operational demands of their AAC systems .

The talk will also describe the development and application of t he Protocol for the Analysis of Aided Language Samples in Spanish (PAALS S), a tool that supports systematic characterization of Spanish aided la nguage, and how the study of aided language development contributes to a broader account of language learning under conditions of limited speech and alternative forms of representation.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/gloria-soto/

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