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This is a student volunteer
programme for persons with ASD. It is coordinated from the Universidad
Autónoma of Madrid and funded by CajaMadrid. If you are
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Courses for students organized by our
local support group, Autismo Sevilla, here at the University of Seville. |
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Resources in Developmental
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Some resources for research in this
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Other topics and subjects I am
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I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental and
Educational Psychology of the University
of Seville in Spain. My main interests are in the field of
developmental disorders and special educational needs. I am
specifically interested in Autism Spectrum Disorders and in reading and
oral comprehension.
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Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y
de la
Educación
Universidad de Sevilla
Avda. Camilo José Cela s/n
41018 Sevilla (España)
Tel.: 34 954554334
Fax: 34 954557642
E-mail: Apply
here (sorry, this is what comes from receiving too much spam - you will
be asked to write the code you see)
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| Reading
comprehension in persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
2008-2010
- Ministry of Science and Education (Spain) National R+D Programme
We shall be looking at different
processes involved in discourse comprehension, in particular predictive
inferences, inferences during situation model construction and
comprehension monitoring.
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| Difficulties
in reading
comprehension in persons with Deafness |
2008-2011
- Office for Research, Technology and Enterprise of Andalusia
- Programme for Projects of Excellence in Research
Groups of persons with deafness, both
with proficiency in Spanish Sign Language and with proficiency in oral
Spanish, will be compared on discourse processes with poor
comprehenders and typically developing persons.
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| Reading comprehension in Moroccan
immigrant children in Spain |
2004-2008
- Ministry of Science and Education (Spain) National R+D
Programme
Variables affecting the reading
comprehension of Moroccan children are the main object of this study.
Reading and oral abilities in Arabic and Moroccan, as well as
contextual factors at school and the family are considered. We are
currently analyzing the data obtained in this study. |
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| Publications and resources |
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Recent
Selected Papers and Publications
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- Saldaña,
D., Álvarez, R., Aguilera, A., Moreno, F.J., Moreno, M.
&
Rodríguez, I.R. (in press). ¿Cómo
contribuyen las
asociaciones de familiares a la educación del alumnado con
autismo? [How do parental support groups contribute to the education of
children with autism?] Infancia
y
Aprendizaje.
- Aguilera, A., Moreno,
F.J. &
Saldaña (in press). Do parents prefer special schools for
their
children with autism? Education
and Training in Developmental Disabilities.
- Saldaña, D. & Frith, U.
(2007). Do
readers with autism make bridging inferences from
world-knowledge? Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology, 96,
310-319.
- Saldaña, D.,
Álvarez, R., Moreno, M., López, A.,
Lobatón, S. & Rojano, M. A. (2006). Vida
adulta y trastornos del espectro autista. Calidad de vida y
empleo en Andalucía [Adult life and ASD: Quality
of Life and Employment in Andalusia]. Sevilla: Autismo
Andalucía.
- Moreno, FJ &
Saldaña,D. (2005). Use of a
Computer-Assisted Program to Improve Metacognition in Persons With
Severe Intellectual Disabilities. Research
in Developmental
Disabilities, 26,
341-357.
- Moreno,
F. J., Aguilera, A., Álvarez, R. &
Saldaña, D. (2005). ¿Cómo mejorar la
atención educativa del alumnado con autismo? Una propuesta
desde el
sistema escolar sevillano [How to improve the education of children
with autism? A proposal from the educational system of Seville]. Apuntes
de
Psicología, 23,
257- 274.
- Bednarek,
D., Saldaña, D.,
Quintero, E.A., Garcia, I., Grabowska, A., & Gomez,
C..
(2004). Attentional Deficit in Dyslexia:
a General or Specific Impairment?
Neuroreport, 15, 1787-1790.
More publications here
on the system of the University of Seville.
You can share some of my bookmarks and references on Connotea.
We also run a Wiki on methodological, software and internet resources
useful for developmental psychologists. It is in Spanish and can be
accesses here, under the name Pychometh.
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