🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒

❗️New paper out 📝 Co-creation of a narrative intervention program for speech–language pathology and educational settings. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 📕 American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada

Happy to share that one of the studies of my PhD is now published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology @ashajournals.bsky.social In this study, in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada, we describe the co-creation of the MMN intervention pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍 (website coming soon!)

Today @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and @janafolch.bsky.social presented about the cocreation and preliminary assessment of the MultiModal Narrative Newcomer intervention. A study in collaboration with @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Mireia Gómez i Martínez and Pilar Prieto

Happy to share that our new paper showing that children’s multimodal skills are predictive of concurrent narrative and pragmatic skills has been published in Child Development. Check it out! 👇🏼

❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica

Yesterday @juliafloritpons.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis about the development and evaluation of the MultiModal Narrative Intervention to enhance children’s oral narrative skills, co-supervised by Dr. Pilar Prieto & Dr. Alfonso Igualada

👋 Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia i Gestualitat, GrEP-G), #TraduccióUPF, @upf.edu 👉 Follow us to keep up to date on our research!

Is a full-fledged implementation of the multimodal narrative (MMN) program in Catalan feasible? Can it improve children's narrative & pragmatic skills in both clinical and educational contexts? #LSHSS study says yes. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... @JuliaFloritPons @SIGPerspectives

One of the studies of my PhD thesis has been published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools #LSHSS. We show that the MultiModal Narrative (MMN) intervention is feasible and preliminarily effective to boost the narrative abilities of children with TD and NDD. doi.org/10.1044/2024...