The Language Intervention Impacts on Executive Function (LIIEF) project will include 2-4 preschool students with typical/delayed/spectrum of language who will receive language treatment using the Story Champs intervention. They will complete approximately 24 sessions over 8 weeks, and their language and executive function will be assessed at the start, end, and middle of treatment
Graduate and undergraduate students studying to become speech-language pathologists create book lessons that focus on strengthening young children’s language and early reading skills. These book lessons are designed for 3-5 year olds, and they will be implemented in local public preschools beginning in 2022. This project also aims to equip teachers and parents with resources to support children’s vocabulary, comprehension, early reading, and language development.
KnowLEFIC is a project that looks at the impacts of at/the relationship between learning and processing on young children’s comprehension. This project will include children with a spectrum of language abilities, including children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). This project aims to understand where the difficulties arise during comprehension. Learning more about how children’s learning and processing impact their comprehension can help us understand children with DLD better, illuminate potential differences between children with DLD and children with typical development, and help us learn how to better support children with DLD. We are seeking Spanish-English bilingual children, both with and without language development concerns.
