Mom Crew is partnering with NYU’s BabyChildTeen research cohort of accomplished PhDs on a monthly Lunch and Learn series. In December, Dr. Karen Adolph will lead a talk on motor development.
Children’s worlds are full of objects that require particular, designed actions – twisting the lid off of a jar, turning a knob to open the door, or pulling a zipper to fasten a coat. But these designed actions are not always obvious, even to adults. How do children learn the particular motor actions required to use the objects that surround them in everyday life?
Dr. Adolph will explain developmental progressions in how children learn the designed actions of everyday objects across age and experience. Activities of daily living require the fundamental skills needed to manage basic physical needs, such as dressing, toileting, and eating. She will also discuss how parents can help their children to navigate the tasks of everyday living so that children are best prepared for entry into daycare and school.
There will be time for some questions at the end. Early bird tickets are on sale through 11/30/2020 for $10 (limited quantity available) and regular tickets will be available after that for $15 until 1 hour before the event. The Zoom will be recorded and sent to everyone who signs up in advance in case you miss the live event.
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About Dr. Karen Adolph
KAREN E. ADOLPH is Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at New York University. She uses observable motor behaviors and a variety of technologies (video, motion tracking, instrumented floor, head-mounted eye tracking, EEG, etc.) to study developmental processes. Adolph leads the Databrary video library (databrary.org) and the PLAY project (play-project.org), and she developed and maintains the Datavyu video-coding tool (datavyu.org). Adolph completed a B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, Ph.D. at Emory University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science and Past-President of the International Congress on Infant Studies. She received the Kurt Koffka Medal, a Cattell Sabbatical Award, the APF Fantz Memorial Award, the APA Boyd McCandless Award, the ICIS Young Investigator Award, FIRST and MERIT awards from NICHD, and five teaching awards from NYU. She chaired the NIH study section on Motor Function and Speech Rehabilitation and serves on the McDonnell Foundation advisory board and editorial boards of Developmental Psychobiology and Motor Learning and Development. Adolph has 180+ publications. Her research on perceptual- motor learning and development has been continually funded by NIH since 1991.
BabyChildTeen@NYU is a collection of developmental research labs at the Washington Square campus of New York University. We study how kids develop and grow over time, and we want our research to be accessible to families all over New York City.
We encourage you to sign up to participate in online research studies, which are available for children of all ages, from newborns to teenagers. They’re a great way to engage your children, and you'll have the opportunity to speak to developmental psychologists about any questions you may have regarding child development. Once it is safe to do so, we will also resume in-person studies and we would love to have you visit our labs.
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