VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is seeking individuals to participate in a study that will explore how autistic and non-autistic adults collaborate on tasks. If you complete all sessions, you'll receive a summary of your cognitive abilities upon completion of the research study and up to $50.

Great to see this report out with updates from various EF+Math funded projects, including the Our Math World team I lead with David Purpura Sarah Powell @SaraAnneSchmitt Ma Bernadette Salgarino, NBCT @mayes_mandy Tamika M.! If you’re going to #AERA2023 check out our session Thurs. 4/13!

New pub! We found that children who had higher relational thinking skills in kindergarten had a better understanding of the equal sign by second grade than their peers with lower relational thinking skills in kindergarten. Check out the public pre-proof in the thread below:

New U.S. National Science Foundation grant funded for the Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab! Our team is excited to get this work started over the summer alongside the @ICATatVT Center for Educational Networks and Impacts!

Check it out! Our team co-developed these books alongside educators and students as part of the Our Math World project funded by Advanced Education Research & Development Fund. The materials are being modified after feedback from the last round of piloting, and we will eventually make them all publicly available!

The most recent study Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab is collaborating on! Check out the post below- we are recruiting 3-6 year olds and their parents to participate in a zoom study!

Members of the Learning and Development Lab contributed to the co-design of the Our Math World curriculum materials. We are so excited to see this compilation of our work for the past 3 years alongside other projects also funded by Advanced Education Research & Development Fund's EF+Math program!

“Having someone at the center who is able to sign with Bennett has made a huge impact on his life.” - Sheree Andrews, Bennett's mom. 🫶 The VT Human Development & Family Science Child Development Center for Learning and Research offers amazing opportunities for parents and students. news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

The Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab is headed to Pasadena to disseminate our research! Posters led by Jisun Kim (with Koeun Choi and others), and coauthors from the Our Math World team: Tamika M. Dana Miller-Cotto Eric Wilkey @andyribner Nydia Prishker Ma Bernadette Salgarino, NBCT Sarah Powell David Purpura and more!

Kudos to our Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab VT Human Development & Family Science students who led poster presentations at #CDS2024 last week! Great work Isabel, Maegan, and Jisun Kim!

Delighted to have a joint lab dinner with Koeun Choi at #CDS2024, and with Vanessa Diaz, Ph.D. as well! Excited to see how this group grows in the future!

Check out the newest research from the Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab VT Human Development & Family Science! Results highlight the important role of math language skills in children's numeracy development. Stay tuned for more related work that grad student Isabel Valdivia will present at #MCLS2024 MCLS

The Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab is headed to D.C. this week to disseminate our research! Come say hello if you follow our account and will be there!

The Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab had a great time presenting our work and connecting with colleagues in D.C. at #MCLS2024 recently! Kudos to VT Human Development & Family Science grad students Maegan and Isabel who each led posters!

We co-created these books alongside a children's book author and illustrator, many educators, students, and researchers on the OMW team. Net proceeds from purchases on Amazon will go toward the creation of new educational books for children! amazon.com/dp/B0DH7YBJHW

Please spread the word - Applications for our PhD program in HDFS (Child and Adolescent Development Area) are due 12/1!

I’m excited to share that my newest publication is out! It has been a great collaboration working with this team of members from both VT Human Development & Family Science and Virginia Tech Computer Science.

Check out the work being presented at #AERA2025 led by VT Human Development & Family Science grad students in the Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab! Thanks to Advanced Education Research & Development Fund for funding the Our Math World project (data Maegan is presenting), with co-authors Jisun Kim Tamika M. Sarah Powell Ma Bernadette Salgarino, NBCT David Purpura and others!

I'm excited to announce #SRCD25 conference presentations led by current and former grad students in the Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab! Isabel (PhD Candidate) is presenting a poster from a project with another collaborator in VT Human Development & Family Science, Dr. Ben Katz! Society for Research in Child Development #SRCD2025

My newest paper is out! Led by VT Human Development & Family Science Virginia Tech Learning & Development Lab alumna Jisun Kim, with Gillian Grose, Tess Levinson, and Lisa Fazio.