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Professional Organizations

Society for Research in Child Development [SRCD]
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association [ASHA]
American Academy of Audiology [AAA]

The Baby Language Lab Research Team

	Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Director Dr. Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe is an associate professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department and Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, where she directs the Baby Language Lab. Prior to joining the faculty in 2001, she served on the faculty in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University (1998-2001), following a post doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago (1997-1998). Dr. Gershkoff-Stowe is a developmental psychologist who studies children’s language learning. She teaches courses on childhood language, infant communication, and experimental research methods.

Research Assistants

Esther Chen Esther is a third year Ph.D. student, working towards a dual major in Speech and Hearing Sciences and Cognitive Science. Her research interests include language acquisition and cognitive development. More specifically, she is interested in the relationship between early word learning and object categorization.


	Leigh Hardy Leigh is a junior from Lafayette, Indiana. She is majoring in Speech & Hearing Sciences with a minor in Psychology. Afer graduation she plans to apply to graduate school and enroll in a master's program to become a speech-language pathologist. This is her first research experience.


Melissa Melrose Melissa is from Indianapolis, Indiana. She currently is a second-year Master's student in Indiana University's Speech-Language Pathology Program.


	Karen Walker Karen is a native to Bloomington, Indiana. She is a first-year Master's student in the Speech-Language Pathology Program at Indiana University. She is interested in working with adults with acquired communication disorders related to stroke, traumatic brain injury, or progressive disease. Prior to entering the master's program, Karen worked as an administrative assistant at Indiana University.

Alumni

Suzannah Edgar Suzannah earned her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at IU in December, 2008. Her master’s thesis examined the speech-gesture relationship in preschoolers who stutter and do not stutter. She is currently licensed as a speech-language pathologist and works with children who have communication disorders in the Bloomington area.


	Shakila Shayan Shakila received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and the Cognitive Science Program at IU in May, 2008. Her dissertation, entitled, “Role of Language in the Emergence of AGENT and PATIENT” addresses how young children acquire the syntactic knowledge of verb argument structure. She currently holds a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

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