Presenter: Jillian Weinman, Linguistics & Hearing and Speech Sciences, Global Public Health Scholars
For my practicum project, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Language Development and Perception Laboratories (LDEV) at the University of Maryland. I spent six hours each week during the semester coming into the lab to contact and schedule potential participants for studies, run participants in studies, help collect data for future analysis, code participant videos, and much more. The studies in LDEV focus on exploring language abilities of children to figure out how factors, such as noise, have an effect on how infants understand and develop language. The research done here could give parents a sense of behaviors that will most benefit their child’s language development, as well as inform educational systems how to identify delays in language abilities.