HANDS Lab

We made the cover! 🎉🎉🎉 Cover story and article in comments @Symmetry_MDPI @ElizaLNelson @AtefehKarimi12 #mdpisymmetry

Check out my poster for the CSD T32 Research Day conference @BUSargent @buslhs ⚡️🐾 Happening 11am - 11:25am

📢 Please RT: We are recruiting PhD students at FIU in Miami 🏝️ Faculty accepting students: 1. Lorraine Bahrick 2. Anthony Dick 3. Eliza Nelson 4. Shannon Pruden Deadline is Dec 1. Fee waivers available!

Time for your BU era! We’ll miss you @Kaityn_Contino 🫶

It’s OFFICIAL 💫💗 I’ve passed my dissertation defense and am officially 💫Dr. Kaityn Contino, PhD 💫 I now join the 1% of Latinas with a PhD, ya soy doctora !! #PhDone

Congrats 💖 Dr. @Kaityn_Contino! 💖@fiupsych @handslabfiu @ElizaLNelson

Congrats DR @Kaityn_Contino! 💕 #Milton was 💯not on your bingo card but you absolutely nailed it! We can’t wait to see what you do next when you get to @buslhs 🫶 @fiupsych @ElizaLNelson @spruden @DrStefanyC @MelissaBaralt

My last lab meeting with @handslabfiu !! So sad!! So grateful for this lab and these people 😩

Well-meaning medical providers sometimes tell parents of preemies to stick to one language. @MelissaBaralt, associate professor of Modern Languages and a Center for Children and Families (@FIUCCF) researcher, discusses on The @AcademicMinute how speaking more than one language can actually boost the cognitive and executive functioning skills of kids who were born preterm. 📖 Learn more: academicminute.org/2024/09/meliss…

Object Skill Advantage in Infants with a Hand Preference mdpi.com/2941960 #mdpisymmetry via @Symmetry_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess

Our study protocol titled “Hand preference consistency and fine motor skills in preschoolers with externalizing behavior problems” is now out on OSF. You can check it out here: osf.io/67m93 With @ElizaLNelson @handslabfiu #OpenScience

FIRST first-author paper for HANDS and ⁦@DevSciFIU⁩ grad student ⁦@KLugerLong⁩ 🙌 🙌 with ⁦@AtefehKarimi12⁩ ⁦@mini_anto⁩ ⁦@DrDionneS⁩ ⁦@ElizaLNelson⁩ ⁦@fiupsych⁩ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New blog post on the development of brain asymmetries on @PsychToday psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-as…

Interested in links b/w fine motor skills, motor affordances, and caregiver object labeling? 🧸👶 Going to #ICIS2024 @Infantstudies ? Check out my poster! “Infants manipulation complexity and caregiver object labeling during play” When? Session 2 (July, 10th 5pm) P2-A-240

🌟 Happy First Day of our Summer Treatment Program Pre-K and our Summer Academy in Liberty City! 🍎☀️💚 Best of luck to our little ones, fantastic counselors, and dedicated staff.

Happening now! @handslabfiu @DevSciFIU @Kaityn_Contino

Interested in the development of #hand_preference? Check out my poster at #ICDL2024! I will be presenting this poster on Tuesday, May 21st at 3:15pm. @handslabfiu @ElizaLNelson @Kaityn_Contino

Join us in the #moveforacceptance with ⁦@GiGis_Playhouse⁩ as we run, dash and walk our way to increased awareness and acceptance of all individuals with Down syndrome ⁦ support.gigisplayhouse.org/gigifit-accept…

Congrats to HANDS and @DevSciFIU trainee @AtefehKarimi12 who advanced to candidacy today and proposed her dissertation! 👏🏼 with @ElizaLNelson @spruden @schoolreadylab @DrStefanyC @MelissaBaralt @fiupsych

THEN & NOW with HANDS trainee and college grad @victoriarodri01 🎉 🎓@FIUCASE @fiupsych @DevSciFIU @fiuhonors

First but not last FIU graduation for @Chris_Shoukry 🎉 We are thrilled to keep him at @fiupsych for his PhD #classof2028