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Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab |
Developmental Language Laboratory
The goal of the Developmental Language Laboratory is to understand the nature and underlying causes of childhood language impairments. To this end, we study the relationship between speech perception, the processing of language, and the brain mechanisms underlying language processing in production in young children acquiring language typically and atypically. Included among the populations being studied are monolingual and bilingual children with SLI, children with phonological impairments, children with autism, children with permanent and transient hearing losses, and children with typically developing language. This laboratory consists of three areas: (1) Sentence Processing, (2) Developmental Speech Perception, and (3) Electrophysiology. The Sentence Processing Area includes on-line and off-line computers, digital tape recorders, scanners, and specialized software to allow the construction and administration of language processing tasks for pre-school and school-aged children. The Developmental Perception Area has hardware and software to conduct auditory and cross-modal (visual preference) studies of speech perception and production in infants, toddlers and young children. The Electrophysiology Area includes a 32-channel Neuroscan and associated software to conduct studies of the neurophysiological bases of auditory perception and processing underlying language acquisition. The laboratory is also engaged in cooperative projects with the Eden II School , the Children’s Health Fund, The Rose F. Kennedy Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Sackler Institute of the Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, and the Department of Communicative Disorders of the University of Hong Kong.
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