Robin Chapman, PhD, receives Career Research Scientist
Award
Posted: May 30, 2007
Robin Chapman, PhD
Robin Chapman, professor emerita of Communicative Disorders and Waisman
principle investigator, received the 2006 Career Research Scientist
Award on Tuesday, May 22, at its Atlanta, GA. meeting from the Academy
on Mental Retardation. The award was made for her outstanding
contributions to research in mental retardation and developmental
disabilities. On Waisman grants funded by the National Institutes of
Child Health and Human Development and the National Down Syndrome
Society she carried out research on language learning in children and
adolescents with Down syndrome, demonstrating strengths in vocabulary
learning, ongoing acquisition of complex syntax in expressive language
in adolescence,and longitudinal losses in syntax comprehension in young
adults. With colleagues she demonstrated the importance of auditory
short-term memory for comprehension, visual support for story telling,
and repeated hearing of novel words for speed of comprehension.
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