Developing Language in a Developing Body: Interactions and C ascading Effects
In this talk\, Dr. Jana Iverson wil l present findings from two lines of research designed to illustrate ways i n which advances in motor skills provide foundational opportunities and exp eriences that benefit communicative and language development. The first dem onstrates how movement organizes experiences relevant for language learning . The second illustrates how movement shapes infants’ social interactions w ith objects and people in ways that generate rich language input beneficial for language development. Together\, these findings reveal how the achieve ment of new motor skills exerts far-reaching\, cascading effects on develop ment that extend beyond the individual to impact the behavior of social par tners and the broader communicative environment. Improving our understandin g of the dynamic linkages between early motor and communicative development in the context of the constant\, complex interplay between developing comm unicators and their environments will advance theory and research on early communicative and language development. It will also suggest novel targets for intervention for infants and toddlers with communication delays and cha llenges.
Dr. Ja na Iverson is Professor of Psychology\, Linguistics\, and Comm unication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh. Her resea rch\, funded by NICHD\, NIDCD\, and Autism Speaks\, focuses primarily on th e interface between the development of early motor skills and the emergence of communication and language in typical development and in children with or at risk for developmental disorders. Dr. Iverson has published a co-edi ted book and more than 90 articles and book chapters. She is on the editor ial boards of the Journal of Child Language\, Language Learning and Dev elopment\, and Infancy. Since 1991\, she has served as an in ternational investigator at the CNR in Rome\, Italy. Dr. Iverson was award ed the University of Pittsburgh’s Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award in 2007 and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. She wa s recently named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
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