Júlia Florit-Pons, PhD

🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity!

🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody
🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt

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Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality

🗣️👋 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. ✨🧒

Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...

❗️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

Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...

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/...

Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.

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

Thank you very much!

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

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Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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

Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Multi-Tiered Multimodal Narrative Intervention Program for Preschool Children Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a novel multi-tiered narrative intervention program—...

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...