Come post-doc with the amazing Language Sciences community at UConn -- applications due May 1!

Feeling the #BUCLD fomo, as I take a desperately needed travel break this weekend and miss my first one in nearly a decade. Thanks for the semi-hybrid option!

Hey Delta, your gate agent Juanita at DTW went above and beyond tonight by helping me locate my toddler’s milk after I left it on a plane at the other end of the terminal. She was working a completely different gate and helped me anyway. I hope you know how great she is.

🚨JOB POSTING ALERT🚨

If you wondered what it would like to work with me based on how cool I am here...YOU CAN FIND OUT!

My dept is hiring two tenure track faculty (one clinical & one cognitive) to begin Fall 2024

DM's open (I think)
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

My twitter feed is just beautiful tributes to Jon Henner. Twitter may be a hellhole but it offered a lot of people a way to learn from Jon, and now a place of comfort and grief in his passing. Community is beautiful.

How I feel about syllabus prep this year.

come post-doc with us! On a newly funded R01 looking at conversational skills in autistic teens: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/4977…

Fuck yeah.

All the folks who say “I would love to learn ASL” ~ here’s your chance to learn for a reasonable cost from the comfort of your home.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you have the opportunity to announce a pregnancy to your friends privately, TAKE IT.

Ali Fitch Ali Fitch and I are honored to receive an R15 research award from NIDCD NIH to study Deaf Preschoolers’ Exploratory Behaviors and Parent Guidance during Shared Museum Experiences. This work will be done with The Strong Museum of Play The Strong Museum

Am I the only one who doesn’t understand viral videos of interpreters at music events? It’s a person doing their job…fascinating?

Mother’s Day is complicated. Not everyone has a straightforward path to parenthood. Not everyone has a great relationship with their mother. Not everyone identifies with the term “mother” but are no less a primary parent. However you do today, I hope you take care of yourself.

For Rochester, NY area families with #deaf and #hardofhearing children 6 months to 6 years of age, we have some short, fun studies for you!

tinyurl.com/playstudies

I can confidently say my executive function is worse. Maybe more than a SD.

Delighted to report that our article on the importance of early language in executive functioning is a #topdownloadedarticle in Child Development. Keep spreading this important finding to support the devt of deaf/hard of hearing children! Study of Language and Math (SLaM) Kristin Walker #earlyintervention

New paper! “Learning a Sign Language does not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language.” This study provides evidence that families with deaf children can pursue ASL without concern of negative impact on spoken English development. 🧵
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…