Mirta Vernice is an Assistant Professor in General Psychology at the Department of Humanities, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her primary interests are (i) language acquisition in typical and atypical development and (ii) syntactic processing in normal and brain-damaged populations. In 2011, she co-authored the National Guidelines for the Assessment, Diagnosis, and Clinical Interventions for Specific Learning Disabilities, promoted by the ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma). Since 2012, she has collaborated with the Italian branch of ‘Bilingualism Matters’ (Bilinguismo conta), an information and consultancy service devoted to disseminating the findings of research on bilingualism outside academia.