Julia Parish-Morris

(jparish@temple.edu) is a fourth-year graduate student studying language acquisition with Dr. Hirsh-Pasek. She is originally from Juneau, AK, and received her B.A. in psychology and linguistics from Smith College in 2003. Julia focuses on the acquisition of relational terms like verbs and prepositions by typically and atypially developing children. For her dissertation, Julia will study spatial cognition in children with autism, and will examine how social abilities interact with spatial cognition to predict language outcome. Other ongoing projects include a study comparing the quality of language interactions between parents and children while reading electronic and traditional books.