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This book frames the development of the capability to reflect upon language in children as a way of reasoning on language, which changes their mind into a metalinguistic one. This capability, in turn, is highly involved in learning and communication processes.
The book also offers pictures of typical and atypical profiles of metalinguistic developmental trajectories. These pictures are drawn from research conducted with a wide range of metalinguistic tests, from preschool to young adulthood, used also in studies on bilingualism in several linguistic versions. Additionally, it provides…mehr

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This book frames the development of the capability to reflect upon language in children as a way of reasoning on language, which changes their mind into a metalinguistic one. This capability, in turn, is highly involved in learning and communication processes.

The book also offers pictures of typical and atypical profiles of metalinguistic developmental trajectories. These pictures are drawn from research conducted with a wide range of metalinguistic tests, from preschool to young adulthood, used also in studies on bilingualism in several linguistic versions. Additionally, it provides examples of treatment implemented to face specific weaknesses in the metalinguistic abilities of atypically-developing children with a special focus on figurative language, by exploiting strengths in production and comprehension.

These populations include children with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) without intellectual disability, twice-exceptional children, such as ASD with giftedness, and also rarer conditions such as Klinefelter syndrome, Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum, and bimodal bilingualism in deaf individuals.

The variety of these cases, analyzed in differences and convergences, is a further factor that makes this book relevant to developmental, educational and clinical psychologists addressing subjects from early childhood to adulthood.
Autorenporträt
Sergio Melogno is an Associate Professor at "Niccolò Cusano" Telematic University in Rome, where he teaches Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and Psychology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. He also holds a professorship at the Pontifical Salesian University of Rome, where he lectures on Developmental Neuropsychology, Neuroscience and Learning. His research focuses on neuropsychological profiles, particularly in the linguistic-pragmatic and metalinguistic areas, in both typically and atypically developing children. This research informs his clinical practice at the Developmental Neuropsychology Laboratory at "Niccolò Cusano" University and in other laboratories at "Sapienza" University of Rome. He has extensively published on figurative language production and comprehension in both typical and atypical children, and developed treatments to enhance these abilities by leveraging the strengths of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and other clinical conditions.      Maria Antonietta Pinto is a past Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology - “Sapienza” University of Rome. She has published extensively on cognitive and language development in sociolinguistic complex contexts in Italy, with a special focus on metalinguistic aspects. To this end, she has elaborated a particular theoretical construct of metalinguistic development which underlies the metalinguistic tests she created, which extend from preschool age to adulthood. These tests have been translated into several languages and are widely used in international research on bilingualism and language learning. In 2001, she founded the Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata/Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, of which she is currently Editor-in-Chief.