Internationalization and dissemination of research projects with E.PRIME: professor Richard Schwartz, visiting researcher from the United States

• Grant number: 12/01567-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: May 07, 2012
• End date: May 12, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Cláudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
• Grantee: Cláudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
• Visiting researcher: Richard G. Schwartz
• Visiting researcher institution: City University of New York, New York (CUNY), United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Professor Dr. Richard Schwartz has been collaborating with the development of the area and research in child language with Professors from the Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences of FMUSP since the year of 2000. From 2005, Dr. Schwartz has received undergraduate and graduate students from FMUSP in his laboratory at the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2007, a research project involving the two laboratories (Dr. Andrade and Dr. Schwartz') was informally consolidated. The project entitled E.PRIME officially initiated in 2009. The first study of this project composed the Doctoral thesis of the student Talita Fortunato-Tavares ("Syntactic Structural Assignment in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Autism and Down Syndrome", funded by CAPES DS scholarship). A subsequent study was approved by CNPq ("Lexical Access and Categorization in Stuttering: a Reaction Time Study. Process number: 470458/2009-7). Both studies were extremely successful. Part of the Doctoral thesis was accepted in the Journal of greatest global importance and impact of Speech, Language and hearing Sciences (Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Reserach) in which no Brazilian study had been accepted so far. The study funded by CNPq was completed in late 2011 and the article was submitted to a periodic with impact. During this period of collaboration there were several funded exchange visits which allowed the consolidation of this international research team. Due to the satisfactory and productive integration between the two research groups, we propose here a new phase of collaboration through the next steps of planning. (AU)