{"id":12088,"date":"2021-04-27T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/en\/?post_type=person&#038;p=12088"},"modified":"2021-09-15T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T09:00:59","slug":"edlia-alves-simoes","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/dlcre.usj.edu.mo\/en\/about\/people\/edlia-alves-simoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Edlia Alves Sim\u00f5es"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I am an educational psychologist for over 15 years. My research interests include the area of reading acquisition and reading disorders, second language acquisition, as well as psychological assessment of children and adolescents. While studying the cognitive processes underlying reading errors\u00a0during the acquisition process of school children, I developed, at the same time, several instruments for reading assessment, regarding primary education and learning difficulties.\u00a0In the last years my research focus has been on second language acquisition of Portuguese language by Chinese children in Macao. Presently my main interest is to validate a psychological instrument for diagnosis and intervention purposes with children and adolescents.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><b>Selected Research Projects:<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017-2018 &#8211; Project Leader<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese Children Learning Portuguese as a Second Language in Macao: A Case Study &#8211; Funded by Macao Foundation<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018-2019 \u2013 Project Leader<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistic Profiles of Chinese children learning Portuguese as a second language: Validation of instruments &#8211; Funded by Macao Foundation<\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><b>Selected Publications:<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sim\u00f5es, E., &amp; Martins, M. (2020). Analysis of reading errors in Portuguese: Digraphs and complex syllabic structures, An\u00e1lise Psicol\u00f3gica, vol. XXXVIII (2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sim\u00f5es, E.,\u00a0 &amp; Martins, M. (2018). A aquisi\u00e7\u00e3o da leitura em leitores principiantes: erros t\u00edpicos no portugu\u00eas europeu. Educa\u00e7\u00e3o e Pesquisa, 44, e165734. Epub 16 de abril de 2018. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DOI: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/S1678-4634201844165734\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/S1678-4634201844165734<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sim\u00f5es, E., &amp; Alves Martins, M. (2019). Estudo longitudinal do desempenho em leitura e perfis cognitivo-lingu\u00edsticos de bons e maus leitores. In V. Monteiro, L. Mata, M. Alves Martins, J. Morgado, A.C. Silva, J. Castro Silva &amp; M. Gomes (Eds). Educar hoje: Di\u00e1logos entre psicologia, educa\u00e7\u00e3o e curr\u00edculo (pp.187-202). Lisboa: ISPA, Instituto Universit\u00e1rio. Recovered from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/repositorio.ispa.pt\/bitstream\/10400.12\/7007\/1\/Educar%20hoje%20187-202.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/repositorio.ispa.pt\/bitstream\/10400.12\/7007\/1\/Educar%20hoje%20187-202.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simo\u0303es, E., &amp; Alves Martins, M. (2015). An\u00e1lise psicolingu\u00edstica dos erros de leitura em crian\u00e7as do 1\u00ba ao 4\u00ba ano de escolaridade. In L. Mata, M. Alves Martins, V. Monteiro, J. Morgado, F. Peixoto, A. C. Silva, J. Castro Silva (Eds.), Diversidade e Educa\u00e7\u00e3o: Desafios atuais (pp.258-273). Lisboa: ISPA-Instituto Universit\u00e1rio. Recovered from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cie.ispa.pt\/ficheiros\/areas_utilizador\/user23\/simoes_e._alves_martins_m._2015._analise_psicolinguistica_dos_erros_de_leitura_em_criancas_do_1o_ao_4o_ano_de_escolaridade.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/cie.ispa.pt\/ficheiros\/areas_utilizador\/user23\/simoes_e._alves_martins_m._2015._analise_psicolinguistica_dos_erros_de_leitura_em_criancas_do_1o_ao_4o_ano_de_escolaridade.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><b>Selected communications:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Sim\u00f5es, E<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., (2020).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Linguagem e aprendizagens com interven\u00e7\u00e3o: Dislexia em destaque. Communication presented at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ciclos de Confer\u00eancias UAL<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Lisbon, Portugal (18 June, 2020).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Sim\u00f5es, E<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., Teixeira, V., &amp; Kuok, A. (2019).\u00a0 Learning Portuguese as a L2 in Macao: Validation of an assessment instrument. Communication presented at the Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL2019), Tokyo, Japan (16-18 May, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Simo\u0303es, E<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (2018). Chinese children learning Portuguese as a second language in Macao, Communication presented at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP 2018)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Singapore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Simo\u0303es, E<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (2018). Estudo longitudinal do desempenho em leitura e perfis cognitivo-lingui\u0301sticos de bons e maus leitores, Communication presented at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Col\u00f3quio International de Psicologia e Educa\u00e7\u00e3o<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><b>Current major research project:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use of Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) in Macau\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\r\n<p><b>Summary:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning from preschool to elderly populations. It is widely used in mental health services, schools, medical settings, child and family services, public health agencies, training and research.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this research we intended to validate the ASEBA scales in school-age children in Macao, for clinicians and researchers to enable standardized norms for use with this multicultural population.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The instruments used comprised forms for parents (CBCL &#8211; Child Behavior Checklist) teachers (TRF &#8211; teacher-informant Teacher\u2019s Report) as well as forms of self-report (YSR- youth-informant Youth Self-Report) (11-18 years-old). They will be administered in three languages: Chinese (Hong Kong Version), Portuguese and English (US version). A clinic sample and another community sample will be involved in the validity study derived as representative samples of the Macao population.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The psychometric properties of ASEBA instruments for the population in study will be assessed, with the intention to create norms. The utility of these instruments for research and clinical practice is highlighted, and its use in a multicultural context with the prevalence of the Western and Asian populations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am an educational psychologist for over 15 years. My research interests include the area of reading acquisition and reading disorders, second language acquisition, as well as psychological assessment of children and adolescents. 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