UMD Postdoctoral Fellow studying children's early language environments @LEADLabUMD | @UCMerced (BA) and @UDelaware (PhD) | Chicana 🇲🇽 | she/her
Joined February 2019
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16 Mar 2023
Excited to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation!!! Thank you to everyone who supported me these last 5 years. We did it!❤️
🎉DR. RAMIREZ🎉
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4 Nov 2024
We will be at the Crossroads Farmers Market on Wednesday 6th November giving out warm winter clothes for both children and adults🧥🍂Please share this with anyone who may be interested / feel free to donate any hand-me-downs to stock our future drives!
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11 Oct 2024
🚨Attention UMD Undergrads 🚨 The LEAD Lab is hiring in-person, Maryland-based Research Assistants to start in January 2025. Apply by 11/1 for best consideration using this link: forms.gle/ZadmdZXGKG9Wkufb6 🐢🧠 Please repost to share this opportunity with potential Terp RAs!
ALT Flyer promoting the RA position. Light pink background with maroon, purple, and black text. Text reads "Apply to be an RA in the Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) Lab. Join us on our science journey to help children grow, learn, & LEAD our world! The start date fr this position is January 2025, an RAs work approximately 10 hours per week in the lab. A one year commitment (January 2025 - December 2025) is required. The skills/experiences listed below are not required to join the team, but they may make you an especially good for for certain team projects. - Styling afro-textured hair & advocating for hair equity - Bilingual in English & Spanish -Programming fluency in R, MATlab, and/or Python - Time spent working with preschoolers. Apply by November 1 for best consideration" There is also a QR code linking to the application in the bottom right corner, the lab logo in the top left corner, and the ed terps logo in the top right corner. There is a semi transparent flower icon.
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3 Oct 2024
Ray was truly one of the most beautiful souls I have ever met. I miss you friend.
3 Oct 2024
The University of Delaware community is deeply saddened to share the loss of Raymond (Ray) Patt, a fifth-year doctoral student in the College of Education and Human Development, Graduate College.
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25 Sep 2024
Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.
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23 Sep 2024
#HispanicHeritageMonth Fact of the Day: Latinx children and families benefit from their bilingual and bicultural status. Being bilingual promotes children’s social and #CognitiveDevelopment. hispanicresearchcenter.org/r…
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13 Sep 2024
New #metaanalysis lead by José Ortiz - we synthesize the evidence for the use of #language sample analysis to distinguish between developmental language disorder #DLD and typical language in #bilingual children
Link: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…
Preprint: researchgate.net/publication…
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11 Sep 2024
Are you interested in language development in late talkers? If so, consider working with me to apply for a post-doctoral research supplement to promote diversity for up to 3 years. We have been fortunate to get these in the past. Contact me with questions! nidcd.nih.gov/funding/types/…
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11 Sep 2024
Abria and I are very excited to share this important work we’ve been doing to figure out best practices for inclusive fNIRS scanning w/ @RachelRRomeo and the entire @LEADlabUMD team!
11 Sep 2024
Join our webinar with experts from the University of Maryland's LEAD lab discussing best practices for scanning Black participants with diverse hair types. Don't miss out on this opportunity to broaden your perspective on this subject.
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10 Sep 2024
The LEAD Lab is so excited for Language Science Day (9/20)! We'll share more timing details as we get closer, but look out for a talk by @alexusgramirez and posters by @EllieTaylor9_ new Lab Manager Alicia Mortimer. Register by 9/16 to attend: go.umd.edu/lsd2024.
10 Sep 2024
Language Science Day is September 20th! Visit go.umd.edu/lsd2024 to learn more and register by September 16th!
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6 Sep 2024
The LEAD Lab is so excited that we will be at this week's Friday Night LIVE / Friday Night Lights event! Check out our table for cool coloring pages, brain hats, and information about our PLANES project. Hope to see you there! #goterps 🐢🏈🪩
27 Aug 2024
Cheer on the University of Maryland Football Team in upcoming Big 10 games! These special Friday Night LIVE events will feature live music and sports-themed activities to rally hometown spirit before the game. See you on September 6 at 5:30pm!
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21 Aug 2024
Balancing job applications, grant writing, and conference submissions this season. I'm tired. But, trusting the process!
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13 Aug 2024
A great project from this #UMD-led team conducting fun and interactive research studies at the Planet Word Museum. today.umd.edu/a-good-word-fo…
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13 Aug 2024
📢 New publication! 📢 This manuscript explores grandparent-grandchild interactions over video chat as they engaged with pictures and videos.
Read more by clicking the link below. The first 50 downloads are available for free access!
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5 Aug 2024
My lab is hiring! We have TWO (!) RA positions available as part of the HBCD Consortium study.
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22 Jul 2024
Delighted that this is now out as part of a volume!
doi.org/10.1080/14790718.202…
If you don't have access to the International Journal of Multilingualism — here is a free preprint:
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/583g…
#Multilingualism #HeritageLanguages #IntergenerationalLanguageTransmission
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9 Jul 2024
Wish I could be at ICIS, but I've been enjoying all the photos! Keep sharing so I can live vicariously through them! 🥰
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2 Jul 2024
I can't believe it's been a year since I started my postdoc at the University of Maryland, College Park with @RachelRRomeo at the @LEADlabUMD. We've been exploring factors that relate to bilingual parent-child interactions and children's school readiness! Excited to share more.
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27 Jun 2024
Congratulations to Rachel Romeo, PhD, CCC-SLP on being the 2024 recipient of the Flux Young Investigator Award
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7 Jun 2024
Wanna do some awesome language science this weekend? Come check out our new study “Light up your language brain!” at Planet Word! You’ll get to wear a cool fNIRS headband and see your language brain in action 🧠👀🤩
We're thrilled to announce that our first class starts today! This year, we’re joined by 15 enthusiastic students and have 4 brand-new studies lined up. We'll be back on the floor next week, ready to dive into some amazing conversations with visitors. Stay tuned for more details!
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20 May 2024
🚨New pub!🚨 In this paper, we discuss lessons learned from school/district leaders on how researchers can be better partners. While we conducted this research in DE, we believe the lessons learned to be useful in a variety of settings and contexts.
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20 May 2024
So grateful for my time with @UDelPPE and being able to work with Arielle Lentz (@lentz_ar), Amanda Pickett, Annastasia Purinton, and Liz Farley-Ripple! (@FarleyRipple)
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