DUBBO residents are invited to attend two public lectures by an American professor at the city's university later this month.
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George Mason University professor of Applied Development Psychology, Dr Adam Winsler, will speak on children with mental illnesses and the long-term effects of culturally-sensitive preschool literacy intervention this month.
Dr Winsler said children often talk to themselves during play or problem-solving situations. Such private speech is thought to play an important role in the development of self-regulation and in the transfer of responsibility from others (teachers, parents) to the self.
Dr Winsler will discuss his research on private speech and parent-child scaffolding in typical children as well as young children with behaviour problems.
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and autism do use private speech in relevant ways and it is helpful for them, however, for such children, there may be a developmental delay in speech internalization.
Children with autism, and especially children with ADHD, experience poorer-quality parent-child scaffolding which is related to children's subsequent private speech use and performance.
Dr Winsler's research, represented in more than 80 publications, examines private speech (self-talk) and its role in behavioural self-regulation and executive function among typically developing children as well as children with ADHD or autism.
He also studies early childhood programs, school readiness, kindergarten retention, and bilingual language development among low-income, ethnically diverse, immigrant children.
The two public lectures will be on Tuesday April 23 and Wednesday April 24 at Charles Sturt University.
Dubbo residents who wish to attend should RSVP by Friday April 19 to Marlene Bayliss on 6885 7315 or email mbayliss@csu.edu.au
Refreshments will be served after the lecture.
