In January 2025, I was able to participate as part of the team in the development and creation of the proposal for a research project titled:

Multimodal approaches to language learning: insights into the linguistic skills of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (MultiLearn Project).

This project aims to be funded through calls for ‘Knowledge Generation Projects.’ The team is composed of highly qualified experts both nationally and internationally.

My inclusion in this project provides me with the opportunity to learn how to develop a proper justification, methodology, and development plan for a research project. These skills will be applied throughout my own research, and if the project is funded, many of its objectives will align with my doctoral thesis, creating a mutually beneficial outcome for both the project and my academic work.

You can see above an image in which I participated to show the use of multimodality in oral instructions within a dynamic language assessment task.

On February 28, 2025, I participated in the Employment Forum at the University of Valencia (Faculty of Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy) as a speech and language therapist, with a professional profile characterized by being a PhD student and a clinical speech and language therapist.

During the session, I had the opportunity to explain to the 4th-year Speech and Language Therapy students at the University of Valencia my academic journey at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, as well as the objectives of my research project. This open space allowed me to present the purpose of my research in an accessible way and highlight its importance within the field of speech and language therapy, both theoretically and practically.

From April 2 to 4, 2025, I will be participating as a co-author with an oral presentation at the International Workshop on Early Communication and Language Development, organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid in collaboration with the Association for the Study of Language Acquisition (AEAL), in Madrid.

The work to be presented is titled: Redefining language diagnosis with multimodal assessment: Advancing dynamic assessment approaches for DLD and ASD.

Participating in this congress will give me the opportunity to meet leading researchers in the field of language and communication development in childhood, as well as receive feedback from attendees and experts in the field, which will help improve my research project.

In January 2025, I submitted two scientific contributions to the XI International AEAL Congress and III CHITEL Congress, which will be held in September 2025 in Seville. The scientific contributions are as follows:

• Poster presentation titled The role of multimodality in dynamic assessment of language in children with neurodevelopmental disorders: a scoping review. Available in OSF: http://osf.io/4v25q

• Oral presentation titled Multimodal perceptive assessment with multimodal sampling of narratives serves to identify language needs in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Available in OSF: http://osf.io/wpztf

The evaluation and acceptance of both submissions will be published on April 1, 2025. If accepted, participating in this congress with these two research products will be a great opportunity to receive feedback from the scientific community, meet researchers in the field, and establish new horizons in the design of a dynamic language assessment tool.