Selected Presentations & Appearances
Guest Blogger, Ty’s New Friends
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Duke Blue Planet
Narrative and vocabulary development in dual-language learners.
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Boston MA
Developmental changes in infants’ ability to categorize anger and disgust emotional expressions
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ISIS), Berlin, Germany.
From the hands of babes: Parents’ responses to infants’ communicative gestures.
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies. Berlin, Germany
Collaboration Featured, SI College Athlete of the Year nominee: Duke’s Tyler Thornton,
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Sports Illustrated.com
Examining 14-month-olds ability to map labels to emotion facial expressions.
· December 29, 2013
Lecture
Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ISIS), Berlin, Germany
Role of Early Gesture Use on Children’s Vocabulary Development: Implications for the Black and White Achievement Gap?
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context (CSBYC), University of Michigan
Featured Expert, Children are overexposed to media, study finds,
· October 29, 2013
Lecture
WNBC-17 News
Multimodal input in joint book-reading activities facilitates early word learning.
· October 1, 2013
Lecture
Memphis, TN
Exploring Mother-Child Gesture and Language During a Picture-Book Activity: Implications for the Achievement Gap?
· October 1, 2013
Lecture
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Put on a Happy Face:” Developmental Changes in Infants’ Ability Map Labels to Emotion Facial Expressions
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
Seattle, WA
The frog jumped on his head” Examining Perspective-Taking, Language Development, and Executive Function in Dual-Language Learners
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
Seattle, WA
Exploring Mother-Child Gesture and Language During a Picture-Book Activity: Implications for the Achievement Gap?
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
Seattle, WA
Examining 18-month-olds’ ability to discriminate and categorize anger and disgust emotional expressions
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
Washington, D.C.
Don’t worry be“happy”: Mother-child emotion talk during a picture-book task.
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
Washington, D.C.
Emotion, cognition, and language: Developmental changes in infants’ discrimination, categorization, and label learning for emotion facial expressions
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
Emotion, Cognition, and Language: A mixed methods approach to studying developmental changes in infants' discrimination, categorization, and label learning for emotion facial expressions.
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
Yale Child Study Center, Yale University
Cultural differences in narrative style and reading achievement in African American and Caucasian children
· November 1, 2012
Lecture
Boston, MA
The Examination of Narratives by Dual-Language Learners
· October 1, 2012
Lecture
Worcester, MA
Debating Dual Language Immersion Programs
- NC NPR State of Things radio show
· July 19, 2012
Broadcast Appearance
Black Mothers, SES, and Language Development
· April 21, 2012
Invited Talk
North Carolina Central University,
North Carolina Central University
Role of SES and Race on the Relation between Gesture and Language: Implications for the Black and White Achievement Gap?
· April 21, 2012
Invited Talk
Peabody School of Education, Vanderbilt University,
Peabody School of Education, Vanderbilt University
Exploring Executive Function in Emerging Bilinguals
· October 1, 2011
Lecture
Department of Psychology, UNC Greensboro
Get by with a little help from a word: Multimodal input facilitates 26-month-olds' gesture learning
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
International Conference on Child Language - Montreal, Canada
Families, Race, and Language: Implications for the Black and White Achievement Gap
· April 1, 2011
Lecture
Annual conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, University of Chicago, Illinois
Get by with a little help from a word: 26-months’ ability to learn gestures as labels when presented with words
· April 1, 2010
Lecture
Language Learning Group, Emory University
Developmental changes in infants’ association of gestures versus words with objects: Evidence of a narrowing effect towards words.
· April 1, 2010
Lecture
Department of Psychology, Emory University.
Early Gestures and Word Learning in Infants and Toddlers
· October 1, 2009
Lecture
Developmental changes in infants’ association of gestures versus words with objects: Evidence of general to specific processing
· October 1, 2009
Lecture
Department of Psychology, UNC-Chapel Hill
CSUF Alumnae of the Year Keynote Address
· June 1, 2009
Lecture
California State University Fullerton - Fullerton, CA
Talk with the hand: Developmental changes in infants’ ability to associate words and gestures with objects.
· January 13, 2008
Lecture
Williams College
Developmental changes in infants’ ability to use multiple sources of input to learn language: Implications for African American children
· January 13, 2008
Lecture
Africana Studies - Cornell University
Service to the Profession
Ad hoc Reviewer : NSF College of Reviewers: Developmental & Learning Sciences
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April 7, 2014
Other
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Infant Behavior and Development
·
2013
Other
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Psychological Science
·
2013
Editorial Activities
Co-organizer : Minority Student Grad School Day
·
2013
Event/Organization Administration
Center for Developmental Science
Member : Racial/Ethnic Minority Faculty Group
·
2013
Other
Center for Developmental Science
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Developmental Psychology
·
2013
Other
Grant Submission Reviewer : International Reading Association
·
December 2012
Other
Member : Carolina Consortium on Human Development Committee
·
2012
- 2013
Other
Center for Developmental Science/UNC Chapel Hill
Ad Hoc reviewer : Child Development
·
October 19, 2011
Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc reviewer : Cognitive Development
·
October 19, 2011
Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc reviewer : Journal of Cognition and Development
·
2011
Other
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Cognition
·
2010
Editorial Activities
Submission Reviewer : International Conference on Infant Studies
·
2010
Other
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Educational and Psychlogical Measurement
·
2010
Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Sex Roles
·
2010
Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Journal of Genetic Psycology: Developmental and Education Psychology
·
2009
Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Reviewer : Developmental Science
·
2008
Editorial Activities
Service to Duke
Institutional Review Board
(University)
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2019
- 2023
Committee Service