Maria Garraffa

📌New Paper📌 "Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years" Full Text: mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/4/… Related Special Issue: mdpi.com/journal/langua…

My followers live in UK. (57%), Italy(9%)... Get your map: fedica.com/!MariaGarraffa

New paper on the impact of noisy classrooms on learning at school @UEA_Health @UEA_SLT @LangLifeLab . Factors such as being a strong reader can mitigate the effect of a noisy environment. Support reading in the community @libsconnected nature.com/articles/s4159…

An excellent intro to bilingualism! @MariaGarraffa @AntoSorace @MariaVender 🙌

New introduction to Bilingualism just published for Cambridge University Press! Read about learning languages for health and at any age! @BilingMatters @UEA_SLT @MultiLingOslo cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/bilin…

Research reveals England's public libraries generate £3.4 billion a year librariesconnected.org.uk/news/new-resea… via @libsconnected Very happy to be part of this research on public libraries to promote health and inclusion. Read the report or a snapshot in the Guardian theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

This time last week, @MariaGarraffa and Prof Jonathan Webster were delivering a full module on Research and Evaluation in Medical Education for the students in the MA programme on Leadership in Health Profession Education at the College of Medicine @uSharjah

@MilaVulchanova @evelyn_milburn Great topic!

This week we’re looking at a paper that examined how exposure to example sentence structures affects a child’s ability to produce well-formed sentences, in children with and without #DevLangDis . The authors of this paper were @MariaGarraffa , Moreno Coco and Holly Branigan.

We have a new 0.5fte lecturer vacancy and would love to hear from you. Any questions, please just ask. myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment…

Today! Join us to hear @MariaGarraffa talk about #bilingualism and #languagetherapy:

The SLT team at @UEA_Health would like to give a very warm welcome to Dr @MariaGarraffa, our newest member of the team. Exciting plans ahead already. You can find out more about Maria through @LangLifeLab or langlife.co.uk

Lots of scope for PhD applications to @HWPsych which can relate to #BSL #SignLanguage. We already work with @MariaGarraffa @AlanJohnGow @MichaDewar @LouiseDelicato on areas of memory, facial processing, multilingualism & more. We'd love to do more with YOU! #SignLanguageWeek

What better way to celebrate a new year than sharing our work on BSL and body representation 🤩? Here is the full paper for curious readers: rdcu.be/cc01e. The mystery: does using BSL changes body representation? @BrusaFederico @MariaGarraffa @grahamhturner @HWPsych

Nort Ireland students will continue to have access to Erasmus+ with support of their government. I hope Scotland will follow soon. amp-rte-ie.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.rte.ie…

I only know of one race, the human race and #BLM as humans. Foeman says, “But if we made racial categories up, maybe we can make new categories that function better”. #SayNoToRacism #antiracism ✊🏿 nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/…

@JeminaNapier @AnnaSedda @AlanJohnGow @HWPsych @heriotwatt_soss For systemic changes we need to go beyond disciplines and not criticising lab based study. I found this very inspiring socialsciences.nature.com/channels/2676-…

@AnnaSedda @AlanJohnGow @MariaGarraffa @HWPsych @heriotwatt_soss That’s what I thought @AnnaSedda given what I know about the research in @HWPsych @heriotwatt_soss

Your thoughts @AlanJohnGow @MariaGarraffa @AnnaSedda? @HWPsych @heriotwatt_soss

@AnnaSedda @heriotwatt_soss I am! 😊

Getting ready for the first @heriotwatt_soss online school meeting! Wondering how many people will be be wearing pijiama bottoms because no one can see it 🙋🏻‍♀️

Thanks to Walaa for being so brave and starting this petition. I signed because I agree. I thought a lot about this these days and I must admit I am a bit concerned of speaking out my thoughts. Sign too if you agree please. Thanks. change.org/p/principal-an…

@HWEngage @TheScotsman @LangLifeLab we have collected data supporting a cognitive benefit and better performance in English from children in GME. Languages are an opportunity for learning other languages and keep our brain active.

@TheScotsman "... bilinguals performed better on working memory tasks. Bilinguals with lower formal education were found to be faster at comprehension of one type of complex sentence" @MariaGarraffa

Educating pupils in Gaelic could harm academic achievement say Scottish Tories trib.al/oMh5QDe