Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
The environment in which toddlers learn language may have a greater impact on word learning than previously understood.
Movement is the arch nemesis of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans.
Although cochlear implants (CIs) facilitate spoken language acquisition, many CI listeners experience difficulty learning new words.
There is no one “typical” type of researcher clinician. There are differences in training, percentage of focus on research vs clinic, and type of research done. Many also carry teaching and administrative responsibilities on top of their already demanding positions.
Research and clinical services go hand in hand. One can’t effectively work without the other.
A recent study continues to add to the body of evidence that the brain structure of autistic individuals is different from the structure of neurotypical individuals.
So, in 1976, Burns along with a few collaborators, established the Genetic Counselor Program at UW-Madison.
This clinic specialized in the diagnosis and care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) – a service not easily found in the late 1960s.
This study examined alignment of language choice of 44 Spanish-English bilingual child-parent dyads in a naturalistic context to determine whether bilingual children and their parents respond to each other in the same language(s) across conversational turns, and whether children’s language ability and children’s and parents’ language dominance affect language alignment.
The end goal is to build a collection of information for multiple disorders, the first one being Down syndrome.
