INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION
- Position: Research Assistant (RA)
- Researcher Profile:Research Assistant
- Number of vacancies: 1
- Research groups:Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders group / Infant Language and Cognition group
- Project:ERC Advanced grant - DISORDERED SPEECH
- Funding sources:European Research Council
- Location: Spain > San Sebastian
- Research Field:Neuroscience > Cognition and Language
- Type of contract/Duration of Contract:Temporary - 2 years
- Job Status:Full-time
- Hours per week:35
- Starting date:01/10/2026
- Application deadline: 01/09/2026

Information about the project:
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is offering a Research Assistant position within the DISORDERED SPEECH project, recently funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Advances in recent years have improved our ability to address language problems in both children and adults, with roughly 7 % of children known to have significant spoken language problems (developmental language disorder, DLD)



and another 7 % having written language problems (developmental dyslexia, DD). Early identification remains difficult, and no theory has yet explained their overlaps. The ERC-funded DISORDERED-SPEECH project will introduce and explore a novel research frontier for developmental language disorders, focusing on speech rhythm and the accurate production of prosodic patterns. It will use novel speech-production tasks alongside the neural theory of child language acquisition to develop tools for the identification of DD and DLD across a variety of European languages.
- Coordinate participant recruitment and testing through outreach activities in the BCBL Junior Lab (Colegio Carmelitas Sagrado Corazón) in Vitoria-Gasteiz:
- Collect behavioural and neuroimaging data from bilingual children with and without developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorders in the BCBL Junior Lab (Colegio Carmelitas Sagrado Corazón) in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

📌 Research Assistant (Donostia / San Sebastián)
🏢 BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
📍 Donostia / San Sebastián