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Attending the SRCD Conference

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Last week I attended the biennial conference of the Society for Research in Child Development where I heard some of the latest research findings.

In my MGOL trainings, I mention some studies that show how infants are preprogrammed to connect with their parents. A poster from the University of Denver presented by Andrew Erhart describes “infant’s brain response to mother’s voice.”  His conclusion adds more aspects to the preprogramming” “This research demonstrates that infants show a neural preference towards mother’s voice and respond differently to different emotional prosody across a variety of brain areas.”  In addition, “this research shows that increased socioemotional development is associated with increased activation to mother’s voice (particularly happy voice) in areas of the brain responsible for social and emotion information processing in adults.

Look at poster by clicking on this link:  SRCD_infant_voice.

I also had the wonderful opportunity to hear Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman speak about the follow-up research to the Perry HighScope Preschool Project.  I’m writing a column on the conference for Children and Libraries, so I don’t want to give away all the details.  But it was fascinating!

Here are a few more posters: Priase, Enjoyment, & high expectations_ Sarah Pepper SRCD_infant_voice

 

Priase, Enjoyment, & high expectations_ Sarah Pepper

 

Alexandre Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries !!!

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In May, I was informed that I had received a national award for creativity in libraries. It is still thrilling and I wanted to share the news on my blog.  Below is the official press release:

Vattema..

Thank you, everyone. Hooray!!!!!

Here, There, and Everywhere

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Mother Goose on the Loose has certainly been traveling here, there, and everywhere, and soon there will be a book (to be published by ALA Editions) describing the types of programs with information on how you can use MGOL as outreach to your local unserved populations.

This coming week, I will be presenting with  Anne Bakker from Early Head Start in Venango County, PA, at the Early Childhood Education Summit, about her use of MGOL during home visits and family time.

And, here is a cool blog post someone just sent me a link to, that describes another successful MGOL outreach program, entitled “Reading in Rehab.”

 https://ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu/info/info269reflections/2017/09/17/reading-in-rehab/