************************************************************************************ The 6th workshop on: "*Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from **people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developme**ntal impairments*" *in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai -consortium* *Workshop*: co-located with LREC 2026 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | *May 12th, 2026* *RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai *serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with *mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments*. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical/medical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities. *Workshop date: *Tue., 12th of May 2026 *Submission deadlin**e*: Sun., 22nd of February, 2026 (anywhere on earth) *Paper submission*: <SOFTCONF-TBA> *Invited Speakers: *Prof. *Brian MacWhinney*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; and Assoc Prof, MD, *Sunny X. Tan*g, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA. *Website and details*: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/rapid-2026 *Contact*: Dimitrios Kokkinakis *Contact email*: dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se *Organizing committee*: - Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Charalambos Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway - Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie, France - Kathleen C. Fraser, University of Ottawa, Canada - Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden - Sebastião Pais, University of Beira Interior, Portugal **************************************************************************************