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AY 2022 - 2023 04/04/2023: Antonella Mini presented on parent perceptions of personal strengths in emerging adults with Down syndrome at URFIU 2023. 03/25/2023: Atefeh Karimi presented our latest findings on fine motor deficits in preschoolers with externalizing behavior problems at SRCD 2023. 01/15/2023: Our systematic review protocol on behavioral laterality over the first year of life in nonhuman primates is available on OSF. 11/09/2022: Kaityn Contino presented our latest findings on infant motor-language cascades at ISDP 2022. 11/07/2022: Our paper on developmental cascades as a research framework for primate handedness is out in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience . AY 2021 - 2022 07/27/2022: Kaityn Contino defended her masters thesis using infant hand preference trajectories to predict 5 year language outcomes. 07/09/2022: Kaityn Contino presented our work on cascades of manual exploration onto language outcomes at ICIS 2022 . 03/16/2022: Our paper on measuring handedness comparatively in primates is out in Current Directions in Psychological Science . 11/24/2021: Our scoping review protocol on motor-language links in Down syndrome is available on OSF. 10/13/2021: Our chapter on the emergence of fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome is out in the International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities . 08/23/2021: Atefeh Karimi and Kate Luger Long joined the lab as doctoral students in the FIU Developmental Science program. AY 2020 - 2021 03/23/2021: Incoming HANDS graduate student Atefeh Karimi was awarded the prestigious FIU Presidential Fellowship . 02/23/2021: Our chapter on developmental primate cognition was accepted for Primate Cognitive Studies (book under contract with Cambridge University Press). 02/19/2021: Our paper using factor analysis with our measure the HHQ (Home Handedness Questionnaire) is out in Applied Neuropsychology: Adult . 11/06/2020: Emily Boeving defended her dissertation. Dr. Boeving is now Lecturer at the University of Central Arkansas and Adjunct Lecturer at FIU. 10/21/2020: We showcased our work on infant growth models for RDBM and our review on developmental primate cognition at ISDP 2020 . 08/17/2020: Kaityn Contino joined the lab as a doctoral student in the FIU Developmental Science program. AY 2019 - 2020 08/13/2020: Our paper using social networks to examine social development in spider monkeys is out in American Journal of Primatology .
02/16/2020: Our systematic review on how to measure infant handedness reliably from reaching is out in Laterality .
01/30/2020: Our paper showing toddler hand preference trajectories predict 5-year language outcomes is out in Developmental Psychology . 12/20/2019: Dr. Nelson received a Notice of Award for Year 2 of her NIH/NICHD grant infant motor trajectories and language outcomes . 12/03/2019: Our systematic review on whether gross and fine motor skills differentially contribute to language outcomes is out in Frontiers in Developmental Psychology . 08/30/2019: Sandy Gonzalez defended her dissertation. Dr. Gonzalez is now a Senior Research Associate for Nicklaus Children's Hospital. Get in Touch
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