The EDLD Lab is so proud of our talented undergraduates! Abbey Ward recently received the prestigious Undergraduate Research Award from the University of Oregon’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship to support her thesis research underway in the EDLD Lab. Seniors Brandon Zuel and Rachael Dahlen, as supportedby UO alumnus […]

Dr. De Anda and Dr. Cycyk recently presented EDLD Lab research at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference. This research examined different methods for understanding the language input of young bilingual children. Thank you to our collaborators, Dr. Maria Kapantzoglou at Portland State University and Dr. Aquiles Iglesias at University of […]

Drs. De Anda and Cycyk lead a parent workshop on Saturday, February 16th on the topic of Supporting Bilingualism in the Home for Early Childhood Cares. They reviewed myths about bilingualism and shared ideas for how to foster Spanish language maintenance in the home.

The EDLD Lab is excited to announce a new community collaboration with Dr. Heather Moore and the staff of CIELO de Amor in La Concepción, Nicaragua. CIELO de Amor works to improve the quality of life of children and youth with disabilities, by providing education, physical therapy, adaptive equipment, and trainings to parents and staff. […]

Dr. Lauren Cycyk, co-director of the EDLD Lab, has been awarded a 2018 New Investigators Research Grant from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. This funding will support Drs. Cycyk and De Anda to study the impact of maternal talk and health on the language development of 24 month old children from families who speak Spanish. This […]

We’re pleased to announce that the co-directors of the EDLD Lab will be presenting their research with students and collaborators at the 2018 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s annual convention in Boston, MA from November 15-17th. Here is a list of their presentations by day of the convention: Thursday “LAPE en español: Adapting a caregiver-implemented naturalistic communication […]

Meet the co-directors of the EDLD Lab at the Oregon Speech-Language & Hearing Association’s Annual Conference, to be held in Salem, OR October 12th and 13th. Ariel Rice, an alumnus of the EDLD Lab, will be presenting her research on how study abroad influences the training of future speech-language pathologists with a talk entitled “¡Viva […]

The Co-Directors of the EDLD Lab, Drs. De Anda and Cycyk, met this summer with collaborators from University of Oregon (UO) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to pursue plans to address health disparities among young Latino/a children with communication difficulties. This collaboration is supported by an OHSU-UO Collaborative Seed Grant, jointly funded by […]