Anne Fernald
Associate Professor
Psychology
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Anne Fernald is Associate Professor at Department of Psychology, Stanford University. Her Teaching courses are Behavior, Health, and Development, Biology, Culture and Family in Early Development and Seminar on Infant Development. Working with English- and Spanish-learning children from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, her research examines the importance of early language experience in supporting language development.
Research Interest
She and her Department are deeply involved in community-based research in San Jose, designing an innovative parent-engagement program for low-resource Latino families with young children. They also conducting field studies of beliefs about child development and caregiver-child interaction in rural villages in Senegal. A central goal of this translational research is to help parents understand their vital role in facilitating children’s language and cognitive growth.
Publications
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Fernald A, Weisleder A. Twenty years after 'meaningful differences,' It's time to reframe the 'deficit' debate about the importance of children's early language experience Human Development. 58: 1-4.
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Marchman VA, Adams KA, Loi EC, Fernald A, Feldman HM. Early language processing efficiency predicts later receptive vocabulary outcomes in children born preterm. Child Neuropsychology : a Journal On Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence. 1-17.
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Marchman VA, MartÃnez LZ, Hurtado N, Grüter T, Fernald A. Caregiver talk to young Spanish-English bilinguals: comparing direct observation and parent-report measures of dual-language exposure. Developmental Science. PMID 27197746
