Katharina Antognini

University of Teacher Education in Special Needs | HfH · Institute for Professionalization and System Development

Different regulatory frameworks have been created in the Swiss cantons to manage special needs education provision in the primary school. Whether regulatory frameworks have an influence on the promotion of learners with special educational needs has hardly been investigated so far. The structure of provision, funding and decision-making mechanisms...

Today, a vast number of tools exist to measure development in early childhood in a variety of domains such as cognition, language, or motor, cognition. These tools vary in different aspects. Either children are examined by a trained experimenter, or caregivers fill out questionnaires. The tools are applied in the controlled setting of a laboratory...

This Research Report celebrates the 20th Year Anniversary of the University of Teacher Education in Special Needs summarizes highlights of the last years of special needs education research. Topics such as inclusive education, prevention and resilience of risks in special education needs and specific topics of autism spectrum disorder and sign lang...

Today, a vast amount of tools exist to measure development in early childhood in a variety of domains such as motor, cognition, or language. These tools vary in different aspects. Either children are examined by a trained experimenter, or caregivers fill out questionnaires. The tools are applied in the controlled setting of a laboratory or in the c...

Language and action share a common processing system, namely the sensorimotor system. Sensorimotor activity is associated with action prediction and action-verb processing already early during verb acquisition. Action verbs can have a positive effect on action prediction, if the action verb matches the subsequently perceived action. However, it is...

Throughout life, actions and language are inherent to social interactions. A long‐standing research question in cognitive neuroscience concerns the interrelation between verbal and non‐verbal forms of social interactions, that is, language and action. Perceiving how actions are performed and why they are performed in a certain way is crucial for th...

Language and action share a common processing system, namely the sensorimotor system. Sensorimotor activity is associated with action prediction and action-verb processing already early during verb acquisition. Action verbs can have a positive effect on action prediction, if the action verb matches the subsequently perceived action. However, it is...

Language that describes actions, for instance verbs, can help to predict future actions of conspecifics in social interactions. Language and action are therefore interrelated. This interrelation has been described on a behavioral level for adults and toddlers. Furthermore, in adults, the sensorimotor system is involved in this interrelation. Howeve...

Language that describes actions, for instance verbs, can help to predict future actions of conspecifics in social interactions. Language and action are therefore interrelated. This interrelation has been described on a behavioral level for adults and toddlers. Furthermore, in adults, the sensorimotor system is involved in this interrelation. Howeve...

Understanding other people’s actions is a crucial skill for interaction in the social world. In order to infer action goals humans can make use of different cues from various domains, such as first-hand experience, action observation or auditory cues like action-associated sounds or language. Research has demonstrated these domains are interrelated...

This study shows a very early interrelation of action and language. Action verbs get related to sensorimotor representations of actions if they are part of the overall vocabulary at 18 and 24 months of age.