This is the little corner where I share thoughts
on linguistics and speech and language therapy.
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Speech and Language Therapy and women. Sometimes, I see women
Speech therapy, despite being a profession mostly practiced by women, continues to drag gender inequalities in areas such as research, teaching and clinical practice. In this article, we explore how gender stereotypes, structural biases and female underrepresentation in positions of responsibility affect the profession. From a feminist perspective, tools and reflections are proposed to promote…
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Screens, children, and development
We live surrounded by digital media 24 hours a day, whether it’s mobile phones, tablets, smart watches, computers or advertising screens. Most of the population has had to learn to navigate this omnipresent exposure already in adulthood. New generations, on the other hand, have begun to interact with the digital environment from birth. This relationship…
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Against common sense. Evidence-based practice
When you chose to study speech therapy, you may not have thought that you would also enter the world of science. This article explores why experience, common sense and good faith are not enough to guarantee effective intervention, and claims the importance of evidence-based practice in speech therapy. To provide quality care and protect the…
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Linguistics applied to Speech and Language Therapy. The difference betewen phonetics and phonology
I share with you an explanation of the difference between sound and phoneme. There is a monumental confusion between the two entities and they are often used as synonyms, although they are different things. Phonemes and sounds are even studied by different disciplines! It is not easy to understand at first, but the distinction is…
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Speech and Language Pathology and Bioethics. A conversation with Montserrat Esquerda
As part of the monograph on speech therapy and bioethics that we produced at the Catalan Association of Speech Therapists, we were able to count on the collaboration of Montserrat Esquerda, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ramon Llull University, professor at the Borja Institute of Bioethics-URL and pediatrician in the Mental…
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Logonautes: An expedition to language and the brain aboard a story every day
Language is a mystery we experience every day. Almost without realizing it, we speak or sign, we dream in words, we think in sentences, we argue, we imagine, we remember… It’s a biological capacity, an invisible thread that runs through almost everything we are, that permeates every corner of our existence. It’s in our relationships,…
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Interview at the Spanish national radio
In this interview by Estrella Montolío and Carles Mesa, at RNE’s Gente despierta broadcast, we discuss Talking Brains, an exhibition I developed for the CosmoCaixa science museum in Barcelona. Estrella Montolío, professor at the University of Barcelona, is a renowned linguist with a long trajectory in language and communication popularization. It was a dream come…
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Gourmet breakfast! Science at the 7 portes
Last November, the people from the newspaper El Punt Avui, 7 portes, Big Van Science and the ACCC invited me and professor Anna Gavarró to a talk with round table, as a part of the cycle Breakfast with Science, in the celebrated restaurant 7 portes, at Barcelona. You can see the whole talk here as…
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The neural basis of language
Yay! Our book is published! Together with my partner Oriol Borrega, we have written a book on the brain and the human faculty of language for National Geographic: El lenguaje. Las bases neuronales de la comunicación (Language. The neural basis of communication), for the publisher RBA, in the collection «Fronteras de la Ciencia» (Frontiers of…