Highly recommend surprising Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova and watching your language brain light up at Planet Word!!🧠✨

Check out the story Nashville Public Radio did on our campers at Camp TALKS (talking and learning with kids who stutter). wpln.org/post/how-this-… Vanderbilt Health Children's at VUMC #slppeeps #stuttering #stutter

I'm so grateful to have spent the past 2 days at the ASHA Pathways Program! The mentorship (from Jason Chow & many others) was thought-provoking and encouraging in the best ways! ASHA ASHA Journals

This is how you implement an inclusive conference for an #AcademicMama - a livestream of the auditorium with an infant play area & toys in front of it. This sends such a powerful message. Great job ICIS #ICIS2024 Academic Mom, PhD

I’m so happy to be at #ICIS24 and to be presenting preliminary data from part of my dissertation this afternoon in the first poster session looking @ caregiver stress in infant siblings (with very unexpected results)! Would love to chat with people at poster E-85! ICIS

So grateful for a wonderful time at #ICIS2024 with such incredible mentors and friends (Kate Humphreys (she/her), Shiree Harbick, lots of others)! If anyone is interested in reading my posters just let me know and I’ll send them along!

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is estimated to be ~10 times higher in children with vs without an autistic sibling. This #Pediatrics 📰 provides updated estimates of familial ASD recurrence of infants with older autistic siblings by Carol Wilkinson & authors: bit.ly/3S8jFyE

Grateful and excited to be able to recruit 4 PhD students to join us Fall 25! More to come, but please reach out if you are thinking about grad school next year! Broad focus is on the use, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based practices in school contexts #impsci

Pregnancy may rewire the brain—but does it shape our ability to care for babies? 🧠✨ We wrote a correspondence in nature that cautions against embracing this hypothesis. nature.com/articles/d4158… w/ Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt

New ASHA!opportunity for early to mid-career researchers! Please apply to the Article Peer-Reviewer Training Program! I have many thoughts & opinions on bias in peer review and am happy this program exists. Stay tuned for more! asha.org/research/artic…

Abria and I are very excited to share this important work we’ve been doing to figure out best practices for inclusive fNIRS scanning w/ Rachel R. Romeo and the entire LEAD Lab UMD team!

Participate in Baby Research at Vanderbilt! Would you like to help us learn more about how baby siblings respond to lights, sounds, and touch? Contact: [email protected] (615) 397-4492

New #metaanalysis lead by José Ortiz - we synthesize the evidence for the use of #language sample analysis to distinguish between developmental language disorder #DLD and typical language in #bilingual children Link: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20… Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/38…

🚨New paper! 🚨We’re excited to share our latest work exploring prenatal descriptions of babies and how these perceptions influence future child outcomes. Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/osf/… Abby Blum Kate Humphreys (she/her)

Fall 2024 Learning Lab is back by popular demand! Researchers and clinicians in #CSD, #SLP, #AUD, #specialeducation, and #educationalpsychology: Join us for a free learning lab to kickstart or maintain your self-archiving journey. 📅 Save the dates listed below:

Just Did It. #GoDukes

I'm reviewing applications for PhD students to start Fall 2025 - if you're interested in integrating naturalistic methods and experimental methods to study how infants learn from their environment, please consider applying/reach out with questions! arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/app…

We had an amazing time yesterday as all of our PhD students presented work in our annual department poster session and enjoyed the annual Dan Ashmead lecture!🧵below! VUMCHearSpeech Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt Health

Reminder! This Friday come see the amazing Abria Simmons and Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova talk about best practices for fNIRS with afro-textured hair! 10am EDT October 11.