36.3869, Confs: Special Session at Interspeech 2026: Child Home Interaction & Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation & Environments (Australia)

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Subject: 36.3869, Confs: Special Session at Interspeech 2026: Child Home Interaction & Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation & Environments (Australia)

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Date: 15-Dec-2025
From: Marvin Lavechin [marvinlavechin at gmail.com]
Subject: Special Session at Interspeech 2026: Child Home Interaction & Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation & Environments


Special Session at Interspeech 2026: Child Home Interaction & Language
Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation & Environments
Short Title: CHILDSPACE

Location: Sydney, Australia
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Submission Deadline: 25-Feb-2026

We are excited to announce a special session at Interspeech 2026 (Sept
27-Oct 1, Sydney, Australia) focusing on understanding children’s
language environments and the broader social, emotional, and
contextual factors that shape their development. This session will
bring together researchers from speech science, developmental
psychology, linguistics, computational modeling, and speech technology
to explore how children’s language and social-emotional development
unfold in naturalistic settings.
We welcome 4-page submissions (deadline: 25th of February, 2026) on
topics including, but not limited to:
 - Computational models of language learning and speech processing in
children
 - Acoustic, prosodic, and lexical patterns in child-directed or child
speech
 - Parent-child interaction dynamics, such as turn-taking and
conversational synchrony
 - Speech-derived indicators of emotional, social, or environmental
context
 - Multimodal analyses integrating speech, physiological, and
contextual signals
 - Methods for handling noisy, spontaneous, and overlapping speech in
real-world recordings
 - Development or adaptation of self-supervised or foundation models
for child speech
 - Clinical applications, including assessment, monitoring, and
intervention in developmental contexts
Building on the success of previous Interspeech special sessions and
tutorials, this session aims to foster collaboration across
disciplines and highlight new advances in speech technology,
developmental science, and computational modeling. We hope to catalyze
conversations that push the field forward and establish new standards
for studying children’s speech in naturalistic environments.
We warmly invite you to submit your work specifically to this special
session and contribute to this interdisciplinary discussion. Further
details about submission deadlines and guidelines can be found on our
website
(https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home).



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