Highlights from BULCD 2024
The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BULCD) is one of the largest linguistics conferences in the world, hosting over 500 language acquisition and development researchers and students. The QLAB was honored to attend the 49th annual iteration of...
Language Learning in Children with Autism Presentation
Recently, Dr. Zhenghan Qi and Ph.D. student Katherine Trice presented at the Boston Ability Center about current research on language development in children with autism. More details about the talk are available here. A full recording of the discussion can be viewed...
Our new NIH-funded project – PLAUSL
Predicting Language and literacy growth in Autistic children Using Statistical Learning How do little ones decipher patterns in speech and print? And do these processes wield their transformative influence on language and literacy growth as children step into the...
SRCD Conference Highlight
SRCD (short for Society for Research in Child Development) has many different facets of research on how children develop their language, cognitive skills, academic skills, and more. It also focuses on the environmental factors that impact child development. We were...
MoLA Conference Highlight
Recently, members of our lab attended the first ever Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) conference at Duke University! This international conference was created and attended by some of the top names of our field, as well as many fantastic graduate students and...
QLAB Undergraduate Posters at RISE Expo!
Recently, three of the QLAB's undergraduate research assistants, Lauren Voso, Emily Cohen, and Veronica Foster, presented their work at Northeastern's RISE conference. RISE (Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Entrepreneurship) is an expo for research and creative...
Lab Member Highlights Fall 2022
We are very excited to share great accomplishments within our lab this Fall. Congratulations to PhD student Anqi (Jojo) Hu for being one of the two winners of the 2022 Society for Language Development (SLD) Student Award for her presentation on the “Greater Plasticity...
Spring 2022 Welcoming New Research Assistants
As the year begins, QLAB is excited to jump into our new projects, research, and discoveries, while sharing our progress along the way. With our new semester also comes four new research assistants who we are excited work with and introduce. Emma Van Emma Van has a...
Fall 2021 Semester Review
We are proud to share the transition of the QLAB to Northeastern University and the successful Fall semester that followed! Making The Move QLAB departed from the University of Delaware and now resides in Northeastern University’s Forsyth building. Many students and...
Fresh Conference Presentation-Fall 2021
Psychology PhD candidate Katherine Trice submitted her Talk for the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Katherine presented on pragmatic inference and social cognition in the context of understanding and retaining word meanings....