CoDirectors Stephanie De Anda Lauren Cycyk Lab team

▪ Co-Directors: Stephanie De Anda & Lauren Cycyk ▪ Lab team: undergraduate, doctoral students, and community members Who are we? ▪ Collaborators: ▪ Researchers in the College of Education at UO ▪ School psychology, family & human services, education, special education, etc. ▪ Oregon Health & Science University ▪ Community partners serving children and families ▪ Early Childhood Cares, Head Start of Lane County, Springfield Library, etc.

▪ Our overarching goal is to support the academic and developmental success of young children from bilingual backgrounds. ▪ We are dedicated to understanding how bilingual What does the EDLD Lab do? children develop their home language(s) and English early in life. ▪ We are primarily focused on children exposed to Spanish and English ages 0 -5. ▪ We also conduct research on how early language assessment tools and interventions account for children’s home language(s) and culture(s). ▪ We also study how to support early childhood service providers to become linguistically and culturally responsive.

▪ Dual language development: ▪ Code-switching ▪ Vocabulary development ▪ Language assessment and intervention: What are the current EDLD projects? ▪ ▪ Vocabulary checklist Language exposure tools Methods of language sampling Evaluation of LAPE-en español ▪ Cultural competence in service delivery: ▪ Health disparities in early intervention ▪ Cultural competence of service providers ▪ Sociocultural and environmental context of dual language development: ▪ Parental mental health ▪ Parental language input

▪ Study designed to understand development of Spanish and English for children from Latino backgrounds before 38 months. ▪ Involves 1 -3 home or lab visits with mothers and their young children: MILO Study ▪ Spanish and English vocabulary ▪ Mother-child interactions ▪ Maternal well-being ▪ Compensation, transportation, and childcare provided!

▪ Study designed to examine how children learn words across Spanish and English between ages 46 years. Word Learning Study ▪ Involves 5 visits to the lab over the course of 2 -3 weeks: ▪ Spanish and English vocabulary ▪ Word learning game ▪ Compensation, transportation, and childcare provided!

▪ Please talk to families about our current studies! ▪ MILO (children <38 months) and Word Learning (children 3 -5 years) ▪ Families can contact us via text, voice mail, email, snail mail, or website How can you help? ▪ You can provide us with names of interested families for us to follow up! ▪ Refer families who indicate concerns about early child language development ▪ LAPE-en español ▪ Young Child Center (HEDCO Clinic) ▪ Connect student volunteers to us!

▪ EDLD Phone: (971) 220 -5648 ▪ EDLDOregon@gmail. com Contact Info ▪ EDLDLab. uoregon. edu ▪ Personal Emails: ▪ sdeanda@uoregon. edu ▪ lcycyk@uoregon. edu