Our Team

Director: Jana Iverson, Ph.D.

The Infant Communication Lab

Post-Doctorate: Eve Sauer LeBarton, Ph.D.

Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate Stuents, Visiting Graduate Student: (left to right): Emma Satlof-Bedrick (Post-Baccalaureate), Nina Leezenbaum (Graduate Student), Jessie Northrup (Graduate Student), Laura Morett (Visiting Graduate Student)

Graduate Students (left to right): Nina Leezenbaum, Jessie Northrup and Meg Parladé (absent from photo)

Undergraduate Assistants (back row, left to right): Megan Schambura, Rachel Sandercock, Allison Charles, Julia Skuby, Andrew Adams, Kelly Williams, Marney Steinberg (front row, left to right): Samantha Haberman, Genna Froehlich, Victoria Leung, Megan Breinlinger, Leanna Mihalko; (Members absent): Tim Barthelmes, Christina Bayley, Marykate Viola

Permanent Staff (left to right): Julija Hetherington, Data Manager; Kaitlin Schuessler, Research Assistant; Laura Ayer, Project Coordinator; Stephanie Telep, Research Assistant; Krista Kalinoski, Research Assistant

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.