Benefits of bilingualism. Coping with intellectual disability. Iran in World History. Rodrigues drone.

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• WGNSradio.com joins continuing coverage of a new Concordia study on the positive impact on children's cognitive development of being bilingual as toddlers. The research paper, co-authored by Cristina Crivello, a graduate student with Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development and Diane Poulin-Dubois, professor in the Department of Psychology, was published in January in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
• The Times of India picks up coverage of a new Concordia study led by Ann-Louise Davidson, associate professor in the Department of Education, describing how tablets and other mobile technologies can help people with an intellectual disability (ID) cope with their condition. In the course of her research, Davidson assisted eight people with ID in the creation of testimonial videos about important aspects of their daily lives, which were then posted to a YouTube channel. 
• University of California, Irvine's Persian Studies group posts on Vimeo a recent talk held at its Jordan Center for Persian Studies by Richard Foltz, professor in the Department of Religion and founding director of Concordia's Centre for Iranian Studies. The talks, titled On the Margins of Greater Iran: Richard Frye and the History of the Tajiks, was followed by a book signing featuring Foltz's most recent book, Iran in World History (Oxford University Press, 2015).
• The research of Luis Rodrigues, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of CIADI, was featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet (behind a registration wall) on Tuesday. Rodrigues has partnered with the Hong Kong-based toy company, Wowwee, to produce a drone that chases a toy car. 

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