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Our Collaborators

• Goldin-Meadow Laboratory at the University of Chicago
• Language Development and Disorders Laboratory at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology Rome, Italy
• The Gesture and Language Laboratory at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome, Italy
• The High Risk Baby Siblings Research Consortium

Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh

• Department of Psychology
• Developmental Psychology program
• Clinical Psychology program

Autism Research in Pittsburgh

• Autism Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Pittsburgh Early Autism Study

Featured Research From Our Lab

• Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication of Italian vs. American children. Cultural variation in gesture use is evident even in the communication of young toddlers.
• Variation in vocal-motor development in infant siblings of children with autism. Early motor and vocal development in high-risk infant siblings as an indicator of a future autism diagnosis.
• Gesture paves the way for language development. How children use gestures with speech predicts the transition to two-word combinations.