Attention is a key component of learning. Think of how hard it is to learn someone’s name if all you can think about is the eyelash on their cheek. The same can be said for language learning.
Audra Sterling
Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week
Dyadic caregiver-child interactions are commonly used to examine children’s language learning environments.
LEADer Study (A. Sterling)
The purpose of this research is to better understand how skills related to executive function like memory and flexible thinking are related to grammar and language comprehension and production in children with FXS, DS, and DLD, and a comparison group of neurotypical children.
Leveraging Technology to Identify Outcome Measures for Young Children with Down Syndrome (Sterling)
Our study aims to learn more about how language samples collected in the home can be used to measure the language development of children with Down syndrome.
How Waisman researchers are advancing knowledge of speech and language in Individuals with IDDs
People say between 150 and 200 words a minute on average during a casual conversation.
Boys with fragile X syndrome + autism spectrum disorder and autistic boys show high rates of word omission during conversations
A recent study shows that boys with fragile X syndrome and co-occurring ASD (fragile X + ASD), and autistic boys have similar patterns of linguistic errors and omit more words in conversations compared to non-autistic boys.
Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week
Expressive language impairments are common among school-age boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autistic boys.
Waisman postdoctoral training program: Training the next generation of IDD researchers
The first two years of the grant provided funding for two seminars in an academic year, but in a short span, seeing the tangible benefits these had, they expanded from two lectures a year, to two a month.
New NIH grant to study language use as potential predictor of neurodegenerative disorder in FMR1 premutation carriers
A new study will investigate if language differences can predict the development of a neurodegenerative disorder in people that carry a premutation of the gene FMR1.
Postdoctoral program equips a new generation of scientists in IDD research
For more than 26 years, the center’s Postdoctoral Training Program in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research has helped shape the careers and research paths of 53 postdoctoral researchers through multidisciplinary training in social, epidemiological, behavioral and biobehavioral research on intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).