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Exercicis perquè les persones trans entrenin la veu
Entrevista de mi gran colega y amiga Carolina Vásquez. Trabajo suuuper importante :)
Habla de términos de euforia/disforia de género, tonos de la voz, higiene vocal, buenos hábitos, el taller LGTBI de Barcelona, mindfulness ¡y mucho más!
Recomiendo mucho escuchar la entrevista
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle. 29 Nov 2025
¿Cómo tiene que ser la evaluación y la intervención logopédica en los trastornos neurodegenerativos?
https://blogs.uoc.edu/cienciasdelasalud/es/intervencion-logopedica-en-trastornos-neurodegenerativos/
Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 11th December 2025
Language decline --- language attrition, bilingualism patterns in PPA,
Presentation: The Dynamics of Language Dominance in Bilingual Primary Progressive Aphasia : Preliminary Evidence
Summary:
Bilingual Language Profile Dominance changes in PPA (Spanish and Catalan
Directionality
More balanced vs less balanced
92% of participants experienced changes in their language dominance following symptom onset
55% became less balanced, with one language becoming even more dominant; 37% became more balanced in their dominance
Magnitude
Most individuals with PPA maintain relative stability in the magnitude of change in dominance index from before to after symptom onset
Even though most participants showed a difference in their dominance index from before to after symptom onset, most of these changes were relatively small (numerically)
2. Language Impairment Profiles in Confrontation Naming and Self-Report (Decline) from BLP
Parallel Decline/Naming Impairment (Comparing Spanish and Catalan)
55% Reported parallel decline on the BLP
61% showed parallel naming impairment on the MINT
When decline is asymmetric (MINT or BLP), the non-dominant language tends to be more affected
The strong alignment between BLP self-report of decline and objective testing supports patients’ insight into their language difficulties
These findings emphasize the importance of comprehensive assessment and adaptive therapy in both languages to tailor interventions for bilingual PPA patients
Post by Sonia-Karin Marqués Kiderle
International Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists Working with Bilingual Speakers with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Academy of Aphasia, October 2025
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 31 october 2025
Discover the Brain with Neurocomic
Dr. Fernando Llanos’ neurolinguistics class motivated me to share this: I highly recommend Neurocomic by Dr. Hana Roš and Dr. Matteo Farinella! This scientifically accurate graphic novel brings neuroscience to life with amazing illustrations and playful storytelling. It makes complex concepts, neurons, memory, perception, accessible and fun. A must-read for anyone curious about the brain!
Post by Sonia-Karin Marqués Kiderle, 20250904
Cranial Nerves by the Numbers
Enjoying TA-ing Professor Susan Sneed's Introduction to Speech & Language Disorders Assessment & Treatment in Adults course
Such a great drawing!
Source: https://www.myamericannurse.com/facing-cranial-nerve-assessment/
Chen! No tos perdaís a presentazión d'o mío pai filologo, investigador y activista d'a nuestra luenga ereditaria! Fonz entalto!
💫Aragonese is a Romance language spoken in several dialects by about 25,000 people as of 2011, in the Pyrenees valleys of Aragon, Spain, primarily in the comarcas of Somontano de Barbastro, Jacetania, Alto Gállego, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza/Ribagorça. It is the only modern language which survived from medieval Navarro-Aragonese in a form distinct from Spanish.
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 18th March 2025
LRT en adultos con Síndrome de Down
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¡Hola! Quería compartir aquí el trabajazo de fin de máster de mi colega logopeda Elena, en el que adaptamos la LRT (Lexical Retrieval Therapy) a personas con Síndrome de Down y Elena estudió la eficacia del tratamiento en 5 participantes con Síndrome de Down y anomia presintomáticos a la Enfermedad de Alzheimer.
Actualmente Elena está haciendo el doctorado en la Universidad de Granada, y su objetivo es estudiar los efectos del deterioro cognitivo en Síndrome de Down
Estuvo genial poder ver el progreso y el trabajazo que hizo mi amiga entre clases, master y la vida, me parece que fue un primer paso para ver la aplicabilidad de esto en personas con síndrome de Down y Alzheimer, ya que investigaciones han demostrado que en sus 40 años ya muestran signos neuropatológicos y en sus 50 años comienzan a presentar síndromes de demencia (Head E, Doran E, Nistor, 2011).
So much variety!
Definitions from The bilingualism reader 2nd ed, edited by Li Wei (2006.)
Thank you Dr.Birdsong for lending me this book!
We were discussing the definition of bilingualism, as "an active user of two languages" - Birdsong (in press, to appear 2025) Age Learning and Second Language attainment that will be published soon, and talking in more detail about some questions that I had:
Why does this definition prioritize active use over capability?
Could capability be more relevant in certain contexts, and does this definition exclude passive bilinguals who can understand but not actively use a second language?
How does it account for individuals capable of using two languages but choosing to speak only one? Should "choice" factor into the definition?
If someone "loses" one language because of a disease (neurodegenerative, stroke...) should we still consider them as bilinguals?
Through my questions we talked about the importance of having a broad inclusive definition and being also critical of the current SLA research and the need for operational definitions to have better direction and clarity
I'm excited for the next classes and studying about bilingualism effects and L2A outcomes, how L2 influences L1 is quite interesting!
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Chapters/papers of the book: Part 1. Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Bilingualism P.25.1. Diglossia / Charles A. Ferguson P.33.2. Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism / Joshua A. Fishman P.47.3. Who speaks what language to whom and when? / Joshua A. Fishman P.55.4. Social meaning in linguistic structure: code-switching in Norway / Jan-Petter Blom / John J.Gumperz P.75.5. Code-switching as indexical of social negotiations / Carol Myers-Scotton P.97.6. The pragmatics of code-switching: a sequential approach / Peter Auer P.123.7. A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice: the example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain / Li Wei / Lesley Milroy / Pong Sin Ching P.139.8. Code-switching and the politics of language / Monica Heller P.163.9. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation / Ben Rampton P.177.Part 2. Linguistic Dimensions of Bilingualism P.205.10. Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en espanol: toward a typology of code-switching / Shana Poplack P.213.11. Matching lemmas in a bilingual language competence and production model: evidence from intrasentential code-switching / Carol Myers-Scotton / Janice L. Jake P.244.12. Code-switching and grammatical theory / Pieter Muysken P.280.13. The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children / Virginia Volterra / Traute Taeschner P.303.14. Early bilingual language development: one language or two? / Fred Genesee P.320.15. Code-switching in young bilingual children: the acquisition of grammatical constraints / Jorgen M. Meisel P.336.Part 3. Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Dimensions of Bilingualism P.363.16. Control, activation, and resource: a framework and a model for the control of speech in bilinguals / David W. Green P.371.17. A bilingual production model: Levelt's 'speaking' model adapted / Kees de Bot P.384.18. Lexical and conceptual memory in the bilingual: mapping form to meaning in two languages / Judith F. Kroll / Annette M.B. de Groot P.405.19. The bilingual's language modes / Francois Grosjean P.428.20. Cerebral lateralization in bilinguals: methodological issues / Loraine K. Obler / Robert J. Zatorre / Linda Galloway / Jyotsna Vaid P.455.21. Language lateralization in bilinguals: enough already! / Michel Paradis P.467.22. The bilingual brain as revealed by functional neuroimaging / Jubin Abutalebi / Stefano F. Cappa / Daniela Perani P.475. (personal reminder, please ignore: he tomado algunas notas en Zotero)
Post by Sonia-Karin Marqués Kiderle, 2nd of February 2025
Some cool intervention animations that my friend and filmaker-artist Andrea Algarra and I created for a talk I gave in the Hospital Sant Pau Memory Unit about the role of speech and language pathologists within a neurology unit.
The first one represents online speech therapy and the second one represents in person sessions, patient+SLP.
Post made by Sonia-Karin Marqués Kiderle, 31st of January 2025
Stunning infographic originally published in scmp.com by Alberto Lucas López and shared by Dr.Grasso in Bilingualism: typical and disordered communication in adults course
Each language is represented within black borders, with the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country provided inside of the areas
The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 31st January 2025
How AI could help us communicate with animals, interesting!
This also begs the question, why would we do it? Would it interfere with their communication systems?
But nevertheless it seems interesting to see how the methods used overlap a bit with current studies of connected speech in humans
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 11 August 2024
Very interesting talk! here are some notes:
Dominance is not a stable trait. Bilingualism is dynamic and impermanent! It's domain (circumstances, use, skills) and dimension (performance) dependant
- switches: one language replaces the other as the dominant
- shifts: relative dominance changes as a mater of degree, but not reversal
- phonetic drifts, the Case of A. Schwarzenneger
Attrition (atrición, desgaste): reconfiguration of L1 and L2, can happen in both ≠ loss, ≠ decline, temporary! can be reversed when domain-based dominance returns to initial values! Cross linguistic influence--attrition, any influence is attrition
-- example of L2 attrition: person born in Germany (German L1) moves to Spain (Spanish L2) lives there a long time and then goes back to Germany --L2 attition.
Instruments to assess dominance:
---BLP: https://sites.la.utexas.edu/bilingual/ -- includes skills (dimension), use (domain) and identity and attitude items
---AQT -- Wiig, et al. (2002); Langdon et al. (2005). AQT: A Quick Test of executive function -- Works well to assess switches, performance, processing speed and efficiency - Dual dimension Naming task
Stroop -- code switches -- how does it relate to language switches? Language switches are more complex and we need the full picture
Language performance ≠ identity
Bilingualism as a lifespan phenomenon - Grosjean 2010 book
Artificial-intelligence system allows a man who cannot speak coherently to have a conversation in the language of his choice.
Just wow...
Multilingüismo
Fragmento de George Steiner, el huésped incómodo de Nuccio Ordine
Continuous battle to preserve the Aragonese language, super proud of M.M.☺️ giving visibility through research and education to our heritage language
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 27th of April
PDF | In the field of multilinguism, 'switching' defines a mechanism operating automatically when speakers shift among different languages.
I cannot communicare con you; Oggi I cannot say il mio nome to you; I’m a disastro today.
BDAE cookie theft description: I bambini steal the biscuits from the armadio. The water sta cadendo per terra.—Patient AH (in Abutalebi et al. 2000. Neurocase, 6(1):56-56).
-When asked to switch voluntarily from one language to another, she had no difficulties
-Her impairment thus appeared to involve a stage of lexical retrieval occurring after the specification of semantic and syntactic information.
The anatomical correlation of damage to the switching is not known.Some findings have suggested that the neural basis for language switching may be located in the prefrontal and frontal cortices (Stengel and Zelmanowicz, 1933; Zatorre, 1989)
Damage to the dominant basal ganglia may not only produce an inhibition of an ability to switch across languages,but also an exaggeration of this language property may occur.
Interesting paper!
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 14th of April 2024
Very interesting talk! Bilingualism and Autism: “Bridging the Gap between Research and Beliefs”, presented by Tamara Sorenson Duncan, Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. At The Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL)
Take home messages/notes from the talk:
Concerns persist about bilingualism worsening language challenges for some autistic children, despite evidence suggesting otherwise.
Converging evidence in favour of bilingualism, but is this message reaching parents? -- families receive contradictory advices+austism services actively favor the community language over the home language
Autistic children can and do become bilingual! (this has been consistently shown by research)
A gap exists between research findings and the concerns of parents, educators, and clinicians.
Examining parents' beliefs, experiences with language support, and decision-making about language use is crucial. -- Direct support of the home language is important! (identity, language, culture)
There's a need to assess the opportunities autistic children have for bilingual development.
Investigating variations in second language development among autistic children, focusing on vocabulary and grammar skills, is essential.
The goal is to bridge the gap between research evidence and beliefs about autistic children's bilingual capacity.
Encourage parents to ask, to see which rights and resources there are, that is available in school, what teachers and slps can provide
SLPs are uniquely position to support families by explaining the existing empirical evidence that austistic children CAN and DO become bilinugal
Every person is unique, and this diversity is particularly evident among children on the autism spectrum. There are many factors to consider and decision making needed but it should be always focus on the individual and what is important for the family, -- ICF model (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health). For example: Adquiring a second language later in life is also ok!
Post by Sonia-K.Marqués Kiderle, 11th April 2024