Kelsey E. Davison

have fun! Would have loved to attend this one

Thrilled to share our work on speech timing in autism: we found right-hemispheric white matter pathways in the brain associated with speech timing in autistic children. Grateful to @kdvsn14.bsky.social for her dedication to this project, and @htagerf.bsky.social for supporting this collaboration.

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones!

We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels.

In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

New paper examining longitudinal #brain data over 7y & relation to #reading; implications for early intervention/policy @fitngin.bsky.social
Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited that this publication is out now, led by Dr Kate Radville, and an amazing team. Parents need more information about DLD and in this paper we elevate their voices 🎉

Right-Hemispheric White Matter Organization Is Associated With Speech Timing in Autistic Children Purpose: Converging research suggests that speech timing, including altered rate and pausing when speaking, can distinguish autistic individuals ...

Our work on speech timing & white matter organization in autistic and non-autistic children is out in JSHLR. Thankful for the research team on this project! @jenniferzuk.bsky.social @talialiu.bsky.social @neurotyler.bsky.social @htagerf.bsky.social @qzhever.bsky.social
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thinking of you, Nadine

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HELP! GaabLab has been supporting the #Dyslexia community since 2007. Now we could really use YOUR help due to recent funding cuts that threaten our lab's existence: We're looking for supportive foundations & collaborations, very grateful for any small gift community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/51711873

Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language Some researchers worry about risks of devaluing sign language, overreliance on imperfect devices

Honored to be mentioned alongside scholars I admire: @naomicaselli.bsky.social, Padden, Mayberry, Chen Pichler, and more! www.science.org/content/arti...

"Imperfect sounds: Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky."

Maternal Oral Reading Expressiveness in Relation to Toddlers' Concurrent Language Skills Across a Continuum of Early Language Abilities Purpose: A rich body of evidence has illuminated the importance of caregivers' use of prosody in facilitating young children's language developme...

Our new paper, co-first authored with J. Zuk, in JSLHR found relationships between maternal oral reading prosody and language skills among late and typical talkers. My dissertation work takes a deeper dive into these relationships at the preschool age...coming soon!
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Unpacking the U.S. Department of Education: What Does It Actually Do?

www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast...

Literacy Through Language - Morphology Instruction Morphology is the binding agent between phonology, orthography, and semantics. English is morpho-phonemic, meaning it represents both morphology and phonology within spellings; however, morphology is...

Great resource for those teaching 4-8 grade…
#Edusky
#SOR

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congrats!!!!

📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚
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my goodness, I saw a teenage neighbor walking to the bus stop yesterday with just a sweater, wet hair, and no gloves or hat! Now I know why...

Let me know if you have further questions! Here is a link to the author's manuscript I host on my site: mjmarte.github.io/manuscripts/... :)

Are Speech Sound Difficulties Risk Factors for Difficulties in Language and Reading Skills? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Background: Children with speech sound difficulties often require educational psychology services, yet systematic reviews examining the associati...

When young children have problems pronouncing words accurately, should we be worried? Our new meta-analysis open access in @ashajournals.bsky.social focuses on that pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

our paper on intelligibility and speaking rate. rate, intelligibility and age are all correlated so i work through the effect of rate on intelligibility in a few different analyses

Histogram showing time to publication of papers in years; distribution centers on about 3/5 years

Just did a calculation of our lab's time from project conception to publication (e-pub) over the past x years. We're averaging 3.5 years from the first idea to acceptance. About 6-9 months of this is review time. Don't know how typical this is but good reality check esp. for trainees.