Posters 2017

Starting with Start: Building a Broad and Sustainable Infrastructure for Research and Intervention in Early Language Development

Scott R. McConnell, PhD
University of Minnesota
Look who is talking: Understanding the linguistic environments of family child care homes

Rihana S. Mason, PhD
Urban Child Study Center, Georgia State University
Enhancing Early Intervention Children’s Communication with their Depressed Mothers: Using LENA at the Crossroads of Early Intervention and Maternal Depression

Marcia Mandel, PhD
Durham Children’s Developmental Services Agency/Early Intervention Branch/Division of Public Health/North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Maternal Involvement as a Predictor of Early Infant Conversational Turns In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Elisabeth C. McGowan, MD
Women & Infants Hospital (WIH), Providence, RI
Talk To Teach – Providence Talks & Brown University’s Early Evaluation Findings

Kevin D. Slattery, MPA
Providence Talks
The Relationship between Quality and Quantity in Parental Language Input to Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children

Jeffry A. Coady, PhD
Institute of Cognitive Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder
Bridging the Word Gap Research Network (BWGRN)

Charles R. Greenwood, PhD
Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, University of Kansas
Texas Children’s Hospital upWORDS: Baby More Than Just Words

Cary Cain, MPH, RN, and Maura Dugan, MA, CCC-SLP
Baylor College of Medicine
LENA Start^® Parents Show Increases in Parenting Domains Beyond Those Measured by LENA

Jill Gilkerson, PhD
LENA, Boulder, CO, University of Colorado at Boulder
Closing the achievement gap through parent education and quantitative linguistic feedback: The use of LENA Start^® to improve the home linguistic environment and parental knowledge of child development

Craig K. Van Pay, MS
School of Education, Iowa State University
Ready4K: Evidence-based text message for parents

Benjamin N. York, PhD
ParentPowered Public Benefit Corporation