Our Team

Director: Jana Iverson

Graduate Students (left to right): Erin Koterba and Meg Parladé

Undergraduate Assistants (left to right): Michael Rose, Jessica Intinoli, Sayaka Takeda, Alyssa Thatcher, Karen Jakubowski, Amanda Cataldo, Courtlyn Mummert, Jonni Johnson, Mike Ansell

Permanent Staff (left ro right): Myriam Ricci, Research Assistant; Julija Hetherington, Data Manager; Lindsay Nickel, Project Coordinator; Lisa Melnick, Research Assistant

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.