Dr. Claire Vallotton has been awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Vallotton presented her research on the Effects of an infant sign intervention on the communicative behaviors of children in monolingual and bilingual families at MultiMod 2009: Multimodality of communication in children: gestures, emotions, language, and cognition. Toulouse, France, July 2009.
Dr. Holly Brophy-Herb has been named Associate Editor for the Infant Mental Health Journal. IMHJ is the official journal of the World Associate for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and a leading journal in the study of infant development. Dr. Brophy-Herb is active in WAIMH and serves on the state board for the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (Mi-AIMH).
Kalli Decker, 2nd year MS student in Child Development, was honored with one of eight competitive Innovation Awards from Children’s Central and the Children’s Trust Fund of Michigan for her white paper on titled “Parents’ Communication Choices for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and their Vulnerability to Maltreatment: Information Sources and the Influence of the Media.” Ms. Decker will present her paper at the Consumer Culture & the Ethical Treatment of Children Conference in East Lansing this November.
The MSU Child Development Laboratories will soon offer infant caregiving for infants 6 weeks to 18 months. In Fall 2009, the CDLs opened a new full-day toddler classroom. The new infant and toddler program additions provide excellent opportunities for studying infant and toddler development in the context of high quality early childhood programming. For information on research opportunities at the CDL, visit: http://www.cdl.msu.edu/CDL_Research.html.
Child Development faculty and students presented their research as the recent meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Denver, Co. Examples of presentations include:
Brophy-Herb, H. E., Bocknek, E. L., Hillaker, B., Dupuis, S., Brideau, C., Brown, K., Daub, A. K.,Lee, K. S., & Weiss-DeBoer, E. (2009, April). Emotion coaching style and use of mental state language among low-income parents of toddlers: Links to toddler competencies. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Denver, CO.
Brophy-Herb, H. E., Schiffman, R., Bocknek, E. L., van Egeren, L., Onaga, E., Dupuis, S., Horodynski, M., & Fitzgerald, H. E. (2009, April). Toddlers' social-emotional competency in the contexts of parental emotion beliefs and contingent responsiveness. . Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Denver, CO.
Cristofaro, T.N., Guerra, A.G., Tamis-Lemonda, C.S., Pan, B., Ayoub, C.A., Vallotton, C.D., Raikes, H.H., & Howes, C. (2009, April). An Examination of Mother-Child Personal Narratives in Families From the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, Colorado, 2009.
Gerde, H. K., & Powell, D. R. (2009, April). Relation of teachers’ educational
background to their teaching practices and children’s literacy outcomes. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Hindman, A. H., Skibbe, L. E., Miller, A. L., & Zimmerman, M. A. (2009, April). Effects of classroom process quality and parent involvement on Head Start children’s academic and social competencies. In R. Shearer (Organizer) Ecological perspectives on school readiness profiles in FACES 1997 and FACES 2000. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Morrison, F. J., Bell, L. H., & Skibbe, L. E. (2009, April). The effect of schooling on children’s early literacy and mathematics skills during preschool and kindergarten. In. T. Carr (Organizer). Social scaffolding of beginning mathematics and literacy: Getting young children off to a good start. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
O’Leary, P. M., Gerde, H. K., Powell, D. R., & Diamond, K. E. (2009, April). Teachers verbal behavior across contexts in Head Start classrooms. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver.
Skibbe, L. E., Grimm, K. J., Bowles, R. P., & Morrison, F. J. (2009, April). Literacy growth in the academic year and summer from preschool to second grade: Differential schooling effects across four skills. In H. Bachman (Organizer). Experimental and nonexperimental instruction effects on early literacy development. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Vallotton, C.D. (2009, April). Support or competition? Dynamic development of the relationship between pointing and infant signing from 6 to 18 months of age. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, Colorado, 2009.
Annual Meeting of the Internatiional Society for Developmental Psychobiology
D. Haley, Stansbury, K., Lee, KS. 2. (2009, October) INFANT HEART RATE AND MATERNAL SENSITIVITY DURING PLAY, SEPARATION, AND REUNION IN 6-MONTH-OLD INFANTS. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.
Stansbury, K., McCormac, K., & Sanchez, M. (2009, October). GENETIC VARIATION, MATERNAL AFFECTION, MATERNALK CARE, AND HPA FUNCTION IN INFANT RHESUS MONKEYS. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.
