ASHFoundation New Investigators Research Grant Recipients

✨We are excited to share that our PI, Dr. Kim Crespo, and our postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Kaityn Contino, are recipients of the ASHFoundation 2025 New Investigators Research Grant. ✨

Dr. Crespo’s project will explore how sleep quantity and quality predicts children’s statistical word learning and retention across children with varying language abilities, including those with Developmental Language Disorder. Her work aims to characterize relationships between sleep, learning, and language development. 📚💤

Dr. Contino’s project will explore how motor planning — the way toddlers coordinate and control actions during everyday tasks — may serve as an early marker for the development of executive function and language skills. This research aims to shed light on the cascading effects of motor development on cognitive and language outcomes during a critical period of early childhood. 🧸👶🏽

We are incredibly proud of them! Thank you to the ASHFoundation for this incredible opportunity! 🎊