Outreach Specialists Sarah Roseberry and Elizabeth Zack share insights from I-LABS research regarding language development and imitation. This important dialogue was featured in the April edition of ParentMap Magazine: ‘Whether you’re a parent or researcher, everyone agrees: Babies are amazing! “They’re these little geniuses who have a lot to share,” says Sarah Roseberry. Roseberry is an outreach specialist at the … Read More
Road Map Parent Forum Connects More Than 750 to I-LABS’ Exhibits
More than 750 children and families from 7 south King Country school districts and communities converged on Foster High School in Tukwila for the Community Center for Education Results Road Map project Parent Forum to learn about educational resources and how to engage and advocate for children within and without the school system. The I-LABS interactive exhibits on display drew … Read More
I-LABS Advisory Board member’s op-ed emphasizes the importance of social emotional contexts for learning
I-LABS board member Jackie Bezos shares insights regarding a new “School in the Cloud” online learning initiative designed to increase access to education for children with specific empahasis on creating social emotional learning experiences in the home. This important effort is headed by Dr. Sugata Mitra or Newcastle University. Read the full article in the Huffington Post.
New Research: While in womb, babies begin learning language from their mothers
Each time a newborn sucks on the pacifier, a computer delivers sound into the headphones. The sounds are computer-generated versions of vowels. Infants in both countries were tested with English and Swedish vowels. This newborn in Sweden is listening to an English vowel; after long pause in sucking, the vowel is changed. The number of sucking responses to each vowel … Read More
Dr. Kuhl’s TED.com talk: The linguistic genius of babies
FEb 18, 2011. Dr. Patricia Kuhl’s TEDx Rainier talk on language acquisition is now available on TED.com. Dr. Kuhl talks to attendees at the TEDx Rainier event held on October 10, 2010 about I-LABS’ studies on the first critical period of language development in infants. At the age of six months, babies are able to distinguish sounds from all languages, … Read More