Within the framework of the internationalization policy of María Cano and its academic programs, the mirror class was held with students from the eighth-semester Speech Therapy program of the University of Malaga in Spain and students from the Speech Therapy program of the Foundation María Cano University of the Neiva campus from the first to the fifth semester, an activity led by the coordination of the program by the director Mercy Cecilia Torres and the professor Piedad Rocío Lerma Castaño, who is doing her international internship at the international institution.

The psychologist Mariana Natalí Loredo García, master’s degree in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, specialist in clinical neuropsychology and doctoral student in psychology, participated; Also present was María Rodríguez Moreno Speech therapist, interim substitute professor in the department of evolutionary and educational psychology, coordinator of the early attention subject of the IV course speech therapy degree and doctoral student in psychology from the University of Malaga. During the mirror class, the presentation called: «Early identification of evolutionary dyslexia and its comorbidity with dyscalculia» was socialized, where students were allowed to learn about some of the common diagnoses addressed from speech therapy and learn about the tests applied within the processes. research.

In the academic activity, it was possible to learn about the methodology and way of working that is taught in the Leeduca research group, which is led by Dr. Juan Luis Luque, Dr. Almudena Giménez and the doctoral candidate Auxiliadora Sánchez. The project brings together a significant number of researchers and research and education professionals with the aim of generating a transfer of scientific knowledge to educational practice and, in turn, consolidating a neuroscience and education laboratory within the province of Malaga in Spain. With these spaces for international interaction, it is intended to strengthen the alliances between the two institutions to strengthen scientific knowledge between the different countries.

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