Highlights of Fall 2021

Happy new year! As we welcome 2022, our lab has been joyfully reflecting on the milestone accomplishments of multiple lab members in Fall 2021:

Ione Madsen Hardy, a senior in Linguistics and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Boston University, presented her summer research project at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium, with a poster entitled: Building prosodic profiles for pediatric autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder.

Kelsey Davison, PhD student in the Communication and Neurodevelopment Lab, was awarded the Paula Menyuk Award from the Boston University Conference on Language Development for having one of the highest-rated student research submissions for a project, in collaboration with Dr. Nadine Gaab at Harvard University, entitled: Associations between shared book reading at home and white matter organization in kindergarten in relation to subsequent language and reading abilities.

Our Lab Director, Dr. Jennifer Zuk, had a remarkable experience reuniting with close colleagues and academic family at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention in DC, where she had the honor of receiving the association’s Early Career Contributions in Research Award. With immense gratitude for these milestones, we look ahead in great anticipation and excitement for all that 2022 has in store for us!