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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

• The interplay between language, affect, and gesture during communicative transition: A dynamic systems approach. 
  The vocabulary spurt impacts infants’ production of multiple, coordinated communicative behaviors.

• Developing language in a developing body: The relationship between motor development and language development.
  The emergence of new motor skills changes infants’ experiences with objects and people in ways that are relevant for communicative and language development.

  
• 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.