Doctor Christa Lam-Cassettari
RESEARCH OFFICER,
The MARCS Institute
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- The MARCS Institute
Contact
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Biography
I am currently investigating infant language development in a series of experiments evaluating infant’s ability to detect audio-visual congruence in point-light talking faces using eye-tracking methods. I am particularly interested in elucidating the social and environmental factors that influence speech and language development in infancy and early childhood such as the special speech style infant-directed speech, the impact of hearing-loss and additional complex needs in childhood, the quality of parent-child interaction and factors that adversely affect emotional availability and parent-child communication.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Lam-Cassettari.
Interests
- Childhood Studies
- Early Interventions
- Experimental Psychology
- Infant-directed speech
- Language Acquisition
- Language Socialisation of the Child Through Interaction with Caretakers
- Video Interaction Guidance
Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 100016 Human Learning and Cognition, 2007
- 101677 Cognitive Processes, 2012
