Table 17 – Dr. Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

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Biography:
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Developmental Psychology, in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University, where she co-directs the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society; member of the governing council of the Society for Research on Child Development; associate editor of Infancy and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, former co-chair of SRCD’s 2015 biannual conference, and President Elect of the International Congress of Infant Studies. Tamis-LeMonda’s research focuses on infant and child language, communication, object play, literacy, and motor skill, and the roles of language input, home experiences, parenting, and culture in infant learning and development across domains. A key focus of her work is understanding how home environment, parenting, and cultural context shape infants’ and young children’s everyday experiences and learning, and how early emerging skills in one area cascade to affect developments in other domains. Some example articles that highlight her research interests include: Why is infant language learning facilitated by parental responsiveness? (2014, Current Directions in Psychological Science); Routine language: Speech directed to infants during home activities (2018, Child Development); The costs and benefits of development: The transition from crawling to walking (2014, Child Development Perspectives); and Ethnic differences in mother-infant language and gestural communications are associated with specific skills in infants (2012, Developmental Science).

Tamis-LeMonda has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Mental Health, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, the Ford Foundation, and the Robinhood Foundation. She has approximately 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, and co-edited the volumes Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues, 1st 2nd 3rd Editions (Psychology Press, 1999, 2006, 2016), Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, (Psychology Press, 2002; 2013), The Development of Social Cognition and Communication (Psychology Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Handbook of Infant Development (Cambridge University Press).

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• Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, New York University
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