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SUMMARY:Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportuniti
 es - Dr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20210201T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nAmong parents and professionals there is a common\
 , albeit empirically unsupported\, belief that multilingual exposure may b
 e detrimental to the development of children with neurodevelopment disorde
 rs such as autism. In this presentation we will first review studies that 
 capture the lived experience of multilingualism by autistic children and t
 heir carers and then we will report on a systematic meta-analysis of the e
 merging literature which reveals that multilingualism has no adverse effec
 t on the linguistic and cognitive development of children with autism. Mor
 eover\, we will outline in what ways multilingualism may actually be benef
 icial for autistic children and reported some unpublished trends in recent
  work with colleagues. The interplay of qualitative and quantitive methods
  and the benefits of participant-informed research will set the background
  for this presentation. \n\nBio\n\nJenny Gibson is a developmental psychol
 ogist at the University of Cambridge working on children's linguistic and 
 social development. Much of Jenny's work focuses on multilingual children 
 with developmental difficulties. \n\nNapoleon Katsos is a linguist at the 
 University of Cambridge working on language acquisition and processing in 
 monolingual and multilingual children. 
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