Breaking news!
Conference fun! Congrats to seven current LLD lab members for being accepted to present their work at two conference this spring/summer of 2022 - Lauren, Madison, Sarah, and Madeline presented really cool new work on how children learn language and communicate with their caregivers at the Cognitive Development Society in April, and Liesl, Bri, and Sneh presented work on language learning and possible delays at the Society for Research in Child Language Disorders in June. Stay tuned for future work on these projects!
New paper! A new paper on all the different processes and timelines that are involved in learning a new word, including how children with language delays may learn differently. We show here how vocabulary plays a role in immediate reactions to words as well as retention and generalization. Message us for a copy or find a free link to the full article here: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000817.
Grant awarded! Dr. Sarah Kucker, Director of the LLD lab and Assistant Professor in Psychology, has been awarded a R15 grant from the National Institute of Child Development ($330,000). The title of the project is “Technological timescales: Identifying the impact of digital media on the mechanisms of word learning”. The project tests how the process of word learning unfolds in digital environments and the cascading impact of digital media on vocabulary outcomes in infants and toddlers.
And that is a wrap on our 2020-2021 school year!
Our awesome LLD lab team has put together a newsletter highlighting our accomplishments, findings, and next steps. Check it out here!
More accomplishments by our team members!
Congrats to our Spring 2022 graduates! Lauren and Avery are pursing master's degrees in counseling at Oklahoma State, Alex will be doing the same at Central Oklahoma, Jayla is off to teach out next generation in Dallas, Madeline will be starting a master's degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and Bri will be working in the medical field!
Congrats to Madison for receiving a Wentz Scholarship for the 2022-2023 school year! Madison will be exploring how parent engagement in children's activities influences the child's confidence and accuracy in word learning and language development.
Congrats to our graduating seniors - Kenya, Alyssa, Sydney, and Ericca - who are ALL off to amazing graduate programs! Kenya will be pursing a Master's degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Alyssa is beginning in the Master's program in Accounting at Oklahoma State University, Sydney has been accepted into the University of Oklahoma Master's in Childhood Well-being, and Ericca will be pursing a Master's in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Oklahoma State University!
Congrats to Madeline, Brianna & Abbi, Lauren & Sabrina, and Sydney & Ericca for all being accepted to present their work at the American Psychological Society convention in May 2021!
Madeline - "Toys in the toybox and parent income/education influence child vocabulary and language skills"
Brianna & Abbi - "The impact of sex and language delay on semantic knowledge: Males with developmental
language disorder make more errors."
Lauren & Sabrina - "Impact of unfamiliar lab settings on shy children’s demonstrated vocabulary knowledge"
Sydney & Ericca - "Effects of social contingency on child learning via technology"
Congrats to Liesl and Jayla for being accepted to present their work at the international biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April 2021!
Liesl - "Measuring Language Acquisition: The Influence of Individual Differences"
Jayla - "Examining the effect of age and vocabulary on perceptual and conceptual categorization tasks"
Congrats to Liesl for being awarded a Wentz Research Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year AND receiving a competitive renewal to continue this work in 2021-2022!
Check out our highlight reel of the LLD lab projects from 2019-2020!
If you missed the full Spring Lab Showcase event in 2020, find a longer video here!