Lynn K. Perry

@lynnkperry.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Miami

New work with @skucker.bsky.social! Screen time isn't just associated with a reduction in children's vocabulary size, but it also relates to the specific types of words they're learn first. More screen time is associated with knowing fewer body part words but more people and furniture words.

Videos and Vocabulary: How Digital Media Use Impacts the Types of Words Children Know

The last decade has seen an exponential rise in children's digital media use, as well as growing evidence that it is associated with changes in children's vocabulary. However, while high rates of lo...

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Using automated, digital data collection -- e.g., daylong audio recordings of children's language environments -- is yielding important insights for research in CSD. But ethical issues have yet to be thoroughly explored. This study does just that. on.asha.org/45hnjh5 @sigperspectives.bsky.social

The Use of Automated Digital Data in Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: Confronting a New Ethical Landscape

Purpose: The use of automated, digital data collection, such as daylong audio recordings of children's language environments, is yielding importa...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

list of banned keywords

"Their findings, published in Developmental Science, show that a higher proportion of shape-based nouns in a child’s vocabulary shortly after cochlear implantation was associated with better language development for the next three years." << wow! From: news.miami.edu/as/stories/2... #keeplistening

Study sheds light on language development in children with hearing loss

University of Miami researchers find a link between early vocabulary composition and later language development in children with cochlear implants.

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