Mom Crew is partnering with NYU’s BabyChildTeen research cohort of accomplished PhDs and professors on a monthly Lunch and Learn series.
In June, Dr. Kelsey West, Dr. Karen Adolph and Dr. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda will co-lead a virtual discussion on walking and talking, exploring the intersections of motor development and language development. They’ll also share tips for facilitating your child’s development at home. There will be time for some questions too.
Tickets will be available until 1 hour before the event. The Zoom will be recorded and sent to everyone who purchases a ticket in case you miss the live event.
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Tickets are nonrefundable but may be transferred to another mom by emailing Emily@MyMomCrew.com.
About Dr. Kelsey West, Play and Language Lab
Kelsey West received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a postdoctoral associate at NYU working with Drs. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda and Karen Adolph. Her research program examines how infants' motor achievements – like learning to walk – create new opportunities for communication and language learning.
About Dr. Karen Adolph, Infant Action Lab
Karen Adolph is the Julius Silver Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology at New York University and a world-renowned expert on infant motor development. She uses observable motor behaviors to study developmental processes in infants and children. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and Past-President of the International Congress on Infant Studies. She has received numerous awards, including the American Psychological Foundation Fantz Memorial and American Psychological Association Boyd McCandless awards. She chaired the NIH MFSR study section and currently serves on boards of the McDonnell Foundation, Developmental Psychobiology, and Motor Learning and Development. She has published 170+ articles and chapters. Her research has been continually funded by NIH/NSF since 1991. Most recently, she was featured as an expert on infant crawling in Netflix's Babies docuseries.
About Dr. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, Play and Language Lab
I conduct my research at NYU Steinhardt's Play and Language Lab, where we examine infant and toddler learning and development in social and cultural contexts. I seek to understand how developing skills across a variety of domains reciprocally affect one another concurrently and over time (the theoretical construct of “developmental cascades”). In particular, we study language, communication, and play/exploratory behaviors, and how mothers’ and fathers’ interactions with children –such as contingent responsiveness and richness of child-directed language – relate to children’s developmental trajectories and, conversely, how emerging skills in children influence their everyday learning experiences and interactions with parents. We examine these bi-directional processes in children from diverse economic and ethnic backgrounds using longitudinal analyses, naturalistic observations at home, laboratory studies, and interviews with parents. Our research team includes undergraduates, Masters students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral fellows who share a commitment to advancing a nuanced understanding of how learning and development unfolds in different cultural and ethnic groups in the United States and internationally.