Published: August 10, 2021 Publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly CLI Author: Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado, PhD Abstract: Purpose: This study examines the extent to which the Home Literacy Environment (HLE) as measured by reading habits and resources, library use, and subscriptions or materials, as well as parental reading beliefs predict both language skills (i.e., vocabulary) at kindergarten and… Read more »
Category: Publications
Should I Allow My Confirmatory Factors to Correlate During Factor Score Extraction?
Implications for the Applied Researcher Published: July 23, 2021 Publication: Quality & Quantity CLI Author: Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado, PhD Abstract: With complex models becoming increasingly popular in the social sciences, many researchers have begun using latent variable modeling in multiple-steps, saving, estimating, or otherwise extracting factor scores from one confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for use in… Read more »
“Doing What I can, but I got no Magic Wand”
A Snapshot of Early Childhood Educator Experiences and Efforts to Ensure Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic Published: May 31, 2021 Publication: Early Childhood Education Journal CLI Authors: April Crawford, PhD, Cathy L. Guttentag, PhD, Yoonkyung Oh, PhD, Cheryl Varghese, PhD, Kelly A. Vaughn, PhD, and Tricia A, Zucker, PhD Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted early childhood… Read more »
Normalizing Perinatal Neurological Development via Intervention
Published: May 29, 2021 Publication: Diagnosis, Management and Modeling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Neuroscience of Development Chapter 43 CLI Authors: Dana DeMaster, PhD and Kelly Vaughn, PhD Book Description: Diagnosis, Management and Modeling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Neuroscience of Development is a comprehensive reference on the diagnosis and management of neurodevelopment and associated disorders. The… Read more »
Nurturing the Developing Brain to Reduce Neurological Delay
Published: May 29, 2021 Publication: Diagnosis, Management and Modeling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Neuroscience of Development Chapter 42 CLI Authors: Kelly Vaughn, PhD and Dana DeMaster, PhD Book Description: Diagnosis, Management and Modeling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Neuroscience of Development is a comprehensive reference on the diagnosis and management of neurodevelopment and associated disorders. The book… Read more »
Replication of Combined School Readiness Interventions for Teachers and Parents of Head Start Pre-Kindergarteners Using Remote Delivery
Published: April 28, 2021 Publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly CLI Authors: Susan H. Landry, PhD, Tricia A. Zucker, PhD, Janelle J. Montroy, PhD, Hsien-Yuan Hsu, PhD, Mike A. Assell, PhD, Cheryl Varghese, PhD, and April Crawford, PhD Abstract: This replication study examined remote delivery of 2 evidence-based prekindergarten (pre-k) interventions to evaluate whether the combination… Read more »
Elementary Teachers’ Intervention Fidelity in Relation to Reading and Vocabulary Outcomes for Students at Risk for Reading-Related Disabilities
Published: April 1, 2021 Publication: Journal of Learning Disabilities CLI Author: Cheryl Varghese, PhD Abstract: Teachers’ implementation of differentiated supplemental instruction is critical to help students with or at risk for reading-related disabilities acquire early reading and vocabulary skills. This study represents an initial investigation of whether classroom teachers’ intervention fidelity (exposure, adherence, and quality)… Read more »
Phonetic Discrimination, Phonological Awareness, and Pre-literacy Skills in Spanish-English Dual Language Preschoolers
Published: February 11, 2021 Publication: Journal of Child Language CLI Author: Sarah Surrain, PhD Abstract: The current study explores variation in phonemic representation among Spanish–English dual language learners (DLLs, n = 60) who were dominant in English or in Spanish. Children were given a phonetic discrimination task with speech sounds that: 1) occur in English… Read more »
Frontostriatal White Matter Integrity Relations with “Cool” and “Hot” Self-Regulation After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Published: January 1, 2021 Publication: Journal of NeuroTrauma CLI Authors: Dana DeMaster, PhD and Linda Ewing-Cobbs, PhD Abstract: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) produces microstructural damage to white matter pathways connecting neural structures in pre-frontal and striatal regions involved in self-regulation (SR). Dorsal and ventral frontostriatal pathways have been linked to cognitive (“cool”) and emotional (“hot”)… Read more »