*Today's post is dedicated to welcoming Barb to our LLaMA Lab team!*![]()
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Barb is a speech language pathologist with many years of experience in private practice and as a First Steps provider. She has also provided clinical supervision to graduate students in the Purdue Speech Clinic. Her areas of expertise include early intervention and stuttering management in children and adults. In addition to her clinical practice, she has served as a research associate and project coordinator for several NIH-funded grants awarded to Purdue SLHS faculty members. She is looking forward to working with everyone on Dr. Borovsky’s LASER2 team as we explore early language and vocabulary skills in toddlers. We are very excited to have her join us!
Congratulations to post-doc Sabrina and undergraduate research assistant Jaelyn for their poster presentation, and graduate student Justin for his talk at this year's Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) last week. We're so proud of you!
We are very excited to welcome our new Project Coordinator Claney to LLaMA Lab!![]()
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Claney is a recent graduate of the University of West Florida with a major in Psychology and a minor in Statistics. She split her time between two child development labs at UWF where she explored environmental contexts of the development of preschoolers' self-regulation as well as the influence of socioeconomic status on young children's language development. She is interested in a future in School Psychology with a focus on intervention and prevention in the school system of developmental and learning disorders through community, school, and home collaboration. We are very excited to have her join us!
We are so proud of our LLaMA Lab members Grace Lovell and Sarah Nicolas Cruz - we congratulate them on their 2021 Chappelle Fellowship Award! We wish them best of luck in pursuit of their Master's!Congratulations to this year's Chappelle Fellowship recipients - Mikahla Combs, Grace Lovell, Sierra Mendoza, Sarah Nicolas Cruz, Halle Shoults, and Mackenzie Zorn! The Charles C. Chappelle Fellowship provides a one-year fellowship to students with undergraduate degrees from Purdue for the furtherance of postgraduate research at the University. Recipients are selected on the basis of character, intellectual ability, and promise of degree attainment. All 6 recipients will be pursuing their Master's in Speech-Language Pathology. ![]()
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*Congratulations to our graduating research assistant Jaelyn*![]()
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Jaelyn is graduating with a double major in Anthropology and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences with minors in Linguistics and Psychology. She's been in the LLaMA Lab since 2019, completed a LSAMP-sponsored project in the lab, and is even a co-author of a paper under review! Jaely was accepted at four top-ranked graduate programs, and we're thrilled to announce that Jaelyn picked Purdue's Speech-Language Pathology program out of all of them! We're so excited to see what you do next!
*Congratulations to graduating LLaMA Lab member Jenny!*![]()
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We are thrilled to announce that Jenny will be starting the Physical Assistant (PA) program at Temple University-Lewis Kratz School of Medicine in Philadelphia this upcoming June! Jenny graduated in Spring 2021 with a major in Brain and Behavioral Sciences and a Pre-PA concentration, and she was a member of the LLaMA Lab her junior year. We are excited for this new chapter in her education! Congratulations Jenny!
*Congratulations to our graduating research assistant Grace!*![]()
Grace studied Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences with a minor in Psychology, and she completed an honors thesis in the LLaMA Lab exploring social play's effects on vocabulary development in young children. Grace will start Purdue University's Master of Speech-Language Pathology program in the fall. Congratulations Grace!
Congratulations to research assistant Maria Bushman for receiving the Outstanding Sophomore Award from Purdue National and International Scholarships Office!Four Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences students have received the Outstanding Sophomore Award from Purdue National and International Scholarships Office (NISO)! Congratulations to Maria Bushman, Erin Frain, Macy Griffis, and Renee Kohlmeier! Well done! #PurdueSLHS #PurdueHHS
Today's celebration post is dedicated to another one of our amazing undergraduate students: Sarah! Sarah is majoring in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences with minors in Psychology and Spanish, and will be graduating this May. During her time in the lab, she worked on her Honors thesis project exploring parent engagement during play and its effects on early language skills and presented her poster recently. She will be attending Purdue University's Speech Language Pathology program in the Fall. Congratulations Sarah!!
Hooray for LLAMA lab graduate student, Michelle Indarjit who is this year's Ringel award recipient to support her research on sensory processing and early language learning.This year's Robert L. Ringel Research Award recipient is Michelle Indarjit! This award is gifted to honor the memory and legacy of the late Bob Ringel, who inspired his students to take their research to new heights. The award assists one Ph.D. student in actualizing an idea or vision for their research that would be difficult to accomplish without the support. Michelle's research aims to determine whether and how individual and combined senses (namely, Visual, Tactile, and Auditory) support word-learning in 24–30-month-old children. Congratulations Michelle!![]()
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Today, we are celebrating Lizzy! Lizzy will be graduating this May with a Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences major and Spanish minor. Lizzy has made tremendous contributions to our verb features projects, and she will be attending University of Memphis - Speech Language Pathology program to pursue her Master's in the fall. We are very proud of Lizzy's accomplishments and we congratulate her again!
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! We're so proud to be part of a department with fabulous resources to support healthy communication at all ages. Do you or a loved one struggle to speak, hear, swallow or communicate? Check out the links to the M.D. Steer clinics below for more resources --May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, a time to raise awareness about communication disorders and available treatment options that can improve the quality of life for those who experience problems speaking or hearing. We encourage you to check out the programs available in the M.D. Steer Speech, Language, and Swallowing Clinic (www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/clinics/speech_language.html) and the M.D. Steer Audiology Clinic (www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/clinics/audiology.html) to learn more about taking charge of your hearing and speech health. #BHSM #PurdueSLHS #PurdueHHS
**Congratulations to graduating LLaMA Lab member Candace! ** ![]()
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Candace double majored in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences *and* Brain and Behavioral Sciences. She is one of the first members of LLaMA Lab, she has been with us all throughout her undergraduate years, and completed an honors thesis in the lab. Candace will be attending Boston University's Master of Public Health program, and we are so proud of her! Congratulations, Candace!
As we head into finals week at Purdue, we look forward to celebrating our LLaMA Lab members, and we wish everyone good luck on their final projects and exams!
Happy Word Wednesday!![]()
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This week's word is exuberant (adjective).![]()
Meaning: filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement.![]()
Sentence: Our lab members deserve exuberant praise for all their hard work and accomplishments this semester! 💛
Congratulations to Sarah, Candace, and Grace who are presenting their honors projects at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Symposium this week! We are so proud of our students and congratulate them for their amazing work! Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research
New paper out today with lab director Arielle Borovsky and colleagues Donna Thal and Larry Leonard. We use data science tools to predict future language outcomes from parental reports of toddler’s language skills. Open access paper available in SpringerNature Scientific Reports. rdcu.be/ciFJM
New paper out today with our colleagues Erica EllisRay and Julia Evans that explores how toddler’s abilities to use statistical patterns in speech help them grow their vocabulary. Open access paper available here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.600694/full
We are excited to share with you that our PhD students Michelle and Justin will be presenting at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2021 conference! Michelle will be presenting her poster "The interaction of multisensory cues on novel word learning" on Wednesday, April 7 at 4:30-5:30 PM ET. Justin will be presenting his poster on "Learning Verbs from Events: Semantic Similarity Differentially Affects Generalization Across Toddlerhood", and his presentation will be on Friday, April 9 at 11:45-12:45 PM ET. We are very proud and excited to hear more about their work! If you are interested in learning more about their research, you can click on this link tinyurl.com/y63hu3ub to access Michelle's poster, and this one tinyurl.com/y6y5n782 for Justin's.
Here at the LLaMA lab, we love learning about language learning, and reading with children can be one great way to help grow a child's language skills. Undergraduate research assistants, Hannah and Lizzy, wanted to share what they recently learned about dialogic reading - a strategy to make reading with children more fun and interactive. They highlight some key tips here, and point to more resources for families that want to know more. Check out this article for more information on dialogic reading: www.readingrockets.org/article/dialogic-reading-effective-way-read-aloud-young-children
