UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute researchers, implementation and technical assistance specialists, postdoctoral research associates, graduate research assistants, faculty fellows, and other professionals make an impact on their fields through active participation in national organizations as well as by giving panel and paper presentations at major conferences such as those hosted by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) National Research Conference on Early Childhood, American Educational Research Association, DEC International Early Childhood Conference on Children with Special Needs, International Colloquium of Educational Psychology, International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), International Society of Early Intervention Conference, Panel Global Implementation Conference, Society for Prevention Research, and Society for Research in Child Development.
Below are some of our upcoming conference presentations.
March 23
11:00 a.m. MDT, Floor: 1 Hall A-B
Poster | Sustained Relationships across the Early Elementary Years: Association with Children’s Social-Behavioral Skills
FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD
3:15 p.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 251 B
Symposium: To Pre-K and Beyond: Child Development and Educational Environments Across Pre-K and Elementary School.
Can Kindergarten Teacher Value-Added Sustain the NC Pre-K Boost During Kindergarten?
Robert Carr, PhD
5:00 p.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 251 F
Symposium: Do dual language experiences benefit the academic and literacy outcomes of Spanish speaking ELs?
Educational gains for students in dual language programs: Effects of language proficiency and program model
Doré LaForett, PhD (Presenter); Ximeno Franco-Jenkins, PhD; Sabrina Zadrozny, PhD
5:00 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Grand Ballroom D
Duo Address: Racial & Economic Justice - Baby's First Years
FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD (Commentator)
5:00 p.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 259
Symposium: Examining the Language Skills of Racially and Linguistically Marginalized Children in Early Childhood
Racial/Ethnic Match and Language and Social Outcomes for Black Children Enrolled in High-Quality Preschools
Sandra Soliday Hong, PhD (Presenter); Laura Kuhn, PhD; FPG Faculty Fellow Kirsten Kainz, PhD; Noreen Yazejian, PhD; FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD
March 24
10:15 a.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Meeting Room 151 G
Symposium: Biobehavioral Developmental Mechanisms Linking Early Institutional Care to Later Externalizing Psychopathology.
Prefrontal Cortex Structure Shaped by Early Institutionalization is Associated with Externalizing Psychopathology and Cognitive Capacity
FPG Faculty Fellow Margaret Sheridan, PhD
10:30 a.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 258
Flash Talk Session: Education, discrimination, and positive youth development among Latinx populations.
Mechanisms Linking Peer Discrimination and Adolescents’ Behavioral, Affective, and Cognitive Bicultural Competence Development
FPG Faculty Fellow Dalal Safa, PhD
11:30 a.m. MDT, Floor: 1 Hall A-B
Poster | Biased Teacher Perceptions of Student Leadership Skills in Dual Language Education Settings
Ximena Franco-Jenkins, PhD (Presenter); Doré LaForett, PhD
1:45 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Grand Ballroom H
Symposium: Centering Family Voice: Partnership Interventions with Marginalized Families
FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD (Discussant)
3:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Meeting Room 151 G
Symposium: A Multifaceted Lens: Perspectives and Impacts of an Effective Elementary Teacher Literacy Professional Development Program
TRI Coaching: Virtual Support for Teacher Implementation and Instructional Decision-Making
Heather Aiken, PhD
3:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1 Hall A-B
Poster | Power of language: Does the quality of preschool teacher language translate into child executive function?
Laura Kuhn, PhD
3:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1 Hall A-B
Poster | Predicting Language Skills in Preschool: Process and Structural Quality Influences on Language and Literacy Outcomes
FPG Graduate Research Assistant Lindsay Gomes (Presenter); Sandra Soliday Hong, PhD
March 25
11:45 a.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Meeting Room 155 D
Equity Research Centers: Creating Countercultural Spaces for the Pursuit of Equitable Science
FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD (Panelist)
1:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 254 B
Symposium: Risk and Resilience in Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From a Social Equity Perspective.
Black Parents and Their Babies: The Dual Pandemic of Racism and COVID-19, 2019–2022
Aspacia Stafford, PhD (Presenter); FPG Faculty Fellow Iheoma Iruka, PhD; Sharron Hunter-Rainey, PhD
1:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Meeting Room 155 E
Conversation Roundtable | Including Family Child Care in Public Pre-Kindergarten Systems: Opportunities and Challenges for Advancing Equity
Jenille Adams Morgan, MA (Panelist)
1:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 1, Meeting Room 151 G
Symposium: Taking on Cumulative Stress Models: Neuroimaging Studies from Dimensional/ Interpersonal Neurodevelopmental Processing Perspectives on Adversity.
Associations Between Cognitive Deprivation and Neural Activation During Cognitive Control in Early Childhood: A FMRI Study
FPG Faculty Fellow Margaret Sheridan, PhD (Discussant)
1:30 p.m. MDT, Floor: 2, Meeting Room 250 F
Developmental Science, Public Policy, Equity & (In)Justice: A conversation roundtable
FPG Faculty Fellow Shauna Cooper, PhD (Panelist)
