Bilingual infants. Benefits of art therapy. Music and poetry with Filippo Salvatore.

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• Several Italian-language publications join coverage of new research into bilingualism in infants, co-authored by Krista Byers-Heinlein, associate professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Elizabeth Morin-Lessard, PhD student in the same department, and Princeton University researchers. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that children younger than two who grow up bilingual are able to sort out two languages on their own, simply by listening:  Ansa, Zazoom, Meteo Web.
• Rosemary Reilly, associate professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of arts and Science, talks to AMEQ en ligne about her work with medical researchers on the benefits of art therapy among women living with breast cancer. The article previews a collection of poems by breast cancer patients that emerged from the research project, "The art of healing: Exploring the use of art therapy in oncology nursing practice to enhance whole person cancer care".
• Primo Numero and Termoli Online (both in Italian) announce a night of music and poetry, today in Termoli, Italy, with the participation of poet Filippo Salvatore, professor emeritus in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Salvatore will present some of his own work.

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