LVC psych's Dr. Rachel Albert was interviewed for the “Teachers in the Tiny Chairs” podcast about her research on infant language development and how it applies to childcare teachers in early childcare education. Listen here: bit.ly/3nfIJEL #GoLVC

#infantstudies undergraduate students, apply to the Founding Generation Summer Fellowship! Over 40 international faculty are proposing exciting projects. Visit the website for more information and apply by February 14. infantstudies.org/founding-gener…

Thrilled to have the Baby lab and my research students featured on WGAL this morning! Thanks Katelyn Smith for helping us spread the word! Lebanon Valley College researching how babies learn to talk wgal.com/article/lebano…

Thanks WGAL for visiting the Baby Lab! #GoLVC Lebanon Valley College researching how babies learn to talk wgal.com/article/lebano…

Attending @srcdtweets : Friday at 1:45 you can learn about how infant behaviors shape learning opportunities in early education classrooms. Excited to present with @SheilaDegotardi, & Debbie Laurin with Claire Vallotton as discussant! #SRCD23

Melissa Geary (⁦LebanonValleyCollege⁩ ‘23) presented her first of two posters this morning at #srcd2023 check out her second Saturday at 12:30!

@SheilaDegotardi is at SRCD in Salt Lake City, presenting CRECE's Sarah Jacobson's analysis of educator-infant joint attention. A great symposium with Rachel Albert, Debbie Laurin and Claire Valloton

Second poster complete! Melissa Geary (LebanonValleyCollege ‘23) rocked her presentation and we got great feedback. #srcd2023

That’s a wrap on #srcd2023 for me. Such a highlight to spend time with fabulous researchers, mentors, and collaborators. Thanks @SheilaDegotardi, Claire Vallotton and Diane Horm for participating in our symposium and sharing so much insight into ECEC

Lebanon Valley College Announces Department Awards lvc.meritpages.com/achievements/L…

Very excited to have our chapter titled "Infants contributions to prelinguistic conversations drive language learning" out in the new WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

.Rachel Albert Claire Vallotton et al. (2023): Infant vocalizations create learning opportunities in childcare by eliciting simplified info. Teachers provided shorter, simpler & less unique speech after babbling compared to at other times #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

Wrapping up a great research trip to Australia. Really enjoyed presenting to the Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education at Macquarie University and the opportunity to collaborate with their fantastic MQTaLK! Dataset.

Turn-taking is crucial for the development of communication, but why do infants engage in the game of vocal turn-taking? For answers, check out TWO of my papers out this month in Infancy twtr.to/x9V6W and Infant Behavior & Development twtr.to/FAkrY a 🧵

Most studies of early turn-taking focus on a “serve-and-return” model. In contrast, with Steven Elmlinger Rachel Albert and Michael Goldstein, we studied the interactions that led to longer bouts of turn-taking.

.Vivian Hanwen Zhang Steven Elmlinger Rachel Albert & Michael Goldstein (2024) found caregiver vocal (not multimodal) responses keep infants in vocal turn-taking. Multimodal flexibility in vocal turn-taking may emerge over development #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

.Rachel Albert Naomi Sweller et al. (2025): Infants’ directed & mature vocalisations predict ⬆️educator convos in ECE classrooms. Group size did not predict convo length➡️educators skillfully maintain multi-turn convos w/ multiple infants #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.7…