Wednesday, April 2
14:30 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00

Track 1: Multimodal keys in communicative and linguistic development

16:00 – 16:45 Plenary conference
Prosodic and body-movement signals ally in the development of language and communication. Nuria Esteve-Gibert. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
17:00 – 18:15 Session 1: Multimodal keys in communicative and linguistic development
Gaze aversion in 4-year-old children during speech disfluencies. Angela Grimminger. Paderborn University.
Screening and assessment tools for communication and language in young Portuguese children: Evidence on gesture use and acquisition. Anabela Santos-Cruz*, Etelvina Lima, Sandra Ferreira and Cristiana Guimarães. University of Minho.
From action to gesture to word: Multimodal pathways in language acquisition. Olga Capirci. Italian National Research Council.
The role of early gesture and touch for later vocabulary. Tove Gerholm*, Stina Andersson and Tatjana von Rosen. Stockholm University.
18:15 – 19:30
20:00 – 21:00
21:00
Thursday, April 3
7:30 – 8:30

Track 2: Developmental dynamics of early interactions

09:00 – 09:45 Plenary conference
Tuning into interaction: From "getting into synch" to co-constructing intersubjectivity. Iris Nomikou. University of Portsmouth.
10:00 – 11:00 Session 2: Developmental dynamics of early interactions
Exploring 18-month-old infants' communication competence in an interactive false belief task. Ebru Ger*, Nazlı Altınok and David Buttelmann. Bern University.
Small children, big changes: Exploring teachers' contingency in circle-time interactions with 0-3-year-olds. Ana Moreno-Núñez*, Marta Casla, Florencia Alam, Alba Torres and Jorge García-de-la-Plaza. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Situational model in shy children: How multimodal behavior can inform us? Katharina Rohlfing*, Valeriia Tykhonenko and Nils Tolksdorf. Paderborn University.
11:00 – 11:30

Track 3: Movement, synchrony and communicative contexts

11:30 – 12:15 Plenary conference
Developmental trajectory of mother-infant motor coordination in early interaction: A four-case study. Marianne Jover. Aix-Marseille Université.
12:30 – 13:30 Session 3: Movement and synchrony in communicative development
The effect of an online music programme on mother-child behavioural synchrony. Michela Santangelo*, Elena Florit, Chiara Barachetti and Marinella Majorano. University of Verona.
Early spontaneous movement and communicative development: What does movement tell us about interaction in the first few months of life? Eva Murillo* and Guzmán Azagra. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Multimodal synchrony in early environments: How does caregivers' use of movement and touch support language learning? Rana Abu-Zhaya. University College London.
13:30 – 14:30

Track 4: New approaches and methods to language development research: From dynamic assessment to AI opportunities

14:30 – 15:15 Plenary conference
Mind the "5th E"!: Ecological psychology in the remaking of developmental research. Nicolás Alessandroni. Concordia University.
15:30 – 16:30 Session 4: New approaches to typical and atypical language development research (I)
The role of contextual factors in children´s phonology: Long-term implications. Joana Acha*, Gorka Ibaibarriaga and Gorka Vergara. Universidad del País Vasco.
Communicative and linguistic developmental trajectories of infants with elevated likelihood of presenting autism. Ruth Campos* and Carmen Nieto. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Interactions in focus: Understanding early relationships and the environment in the communicational and linguistic development of babies with Down Syndrome. Marcela Tenorio*, Paulina Arango and Andrés Aparicio. MICARE Chile.
16:30 – 17:30 Session 5: New approaches to typical and atypical language development research (II)
Redefining language diagnosis with multimodal assessment: Advancing dynamic assessment approaches for DLD and ASD. Lucía Domingo-Moscardó* and Alfonso Igualada. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Sentence repetition to assess early language abilities: Evidence from monolingual Spanish-speaking children aged 2 to 4 years of age. Irene Rujas*, Sofía Vieira, Miguel Lázaro, Sonia Mariscal and Natalia Bravo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Analyzing multimodal data with the MULTIDATA EU platform for AI-powered video processing. Cristóbal Pagán. Universidad de Murcia.
17:30 – 19:30
20:00 – 21:00
21:00 onwards
Friday, April 4
8:00 – 9:00
9:30 – 10:00
The State of Data & AI Literacy - DataCamp's 2025 Report. Mafer Bencomo. DataCamp.

Track 5: Young researchers in communication and language development: The future is now

10:00 – 11:00 Session 6: Young researchers in communication and language development: The future is now (I)
The multimodal nature of triadic interactions in the first year: A home-based approach. Ana Mendoza* and Ana Moreno-Núñez. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
The impact of handwriting and typing on the reading acquisition process: A study with an artificial orthography. Gorka Ibaibarriaga*, Joana Acha and Manuel Perea. Universidad del País Vasco.
Building relationships: Sibling dyadic interactions in children at an elevated likelihood for autism. Margarita Quesada*. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Singing interactions between mothers and infants at elevated and typical autism. Beatriz Cavero*, Ruth Campos, and Pastora Martínez. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30 Session 7: Young researchers in communication and language development: The future is now (II)
Exploring musical dynamics in Early Childhood Education (0–3 years): A study of classroom interactions. Noemí Martin-Ruiz*, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Eva Jiménez-García. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Multimodal indicators as predictors of linguistic and communicative development in atypically developing children. Guzmán Azagra*, Eva Murillo, Miriam Andrés and Alfonso Igualada. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
The role of phonological monitoring abilities in automatic activation and selection of words in early readers: Frequency and word neighborhood effects revisited. Gorka Vergara*, Gorka Ibaibarriaga and Joana Acha. Universidad del País Vasco.
12:30 – 12:45
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 onwards