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| Daniel R. Anderson, Ph.D. Rachel Barr, Ph.D. Lori A. Custodero, D.M.A. |
Claire Lerner, L.C.S.W.-C Kyle Dean Pruett, M.D. Claudia Saad, M.A., CCC-SLP |
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DANIEL R. ANDERSON, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
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Daniel Anderson received his Ph.D. from Brown University and is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published numerous research articles concerning children's use of television and its impact, especially on intellectual development and school achievement. His current research concerns the impact of television on infants and toddlers, brain activation during media use, and the influence of television on diet. Professor Anderson has worked extensively with television networks and production companies concerning the development of educational television programs including Sesame Street, Allegra's Window, Gullah Gullah Island, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Blue's Clues, Bear in the Big Blue House, Dora the Explorer, and The Fimbles (BBC). He serves on numerous advisory boards in organizations concerned with children and media, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Food Marketing and the Diet of Children and Youth. |
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RACHEL BARR, Ph.D. Georgetown University |
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Rachel Barr received her BSc. (Hons), her Clinical Diploma and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand under the supervision of Harlene Hayne. Her Ph.D. examined developmental changes in imitation during late infancy. After completing her Ph.D., she did post-doctoral training with Carolyn Rove-Collier at Rutgers University studying associative memory processes during infancy. For the past four years she has worked as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. She has been a reviewer for Developmental Psychobiology, Developmental Science, and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. She is a 2005 ZERO TO THREE Solnit Fellow. Her research focuses on infant learning and memory in human infants using deferred imitation and parent diaries and questionnaires. She is particularly interested in how infants learn information from a number of different sources. Currently, her research focuses on learning from television during infancy. |
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LORI A. CUSTODERO, D.M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University |
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Lori Custodero is a music education professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Over 25 years experience with young children, parents, and teachers in a variety of musical settings has informed her research, which has focused on children from infancy through preadolescence, and adults as musicians, teachers, and parents. She has presented and published on issues of musical challenge, engagement, and meaning in classrooms, playgrounds, and family settings; recent titles include "Passing the Cultural Torch: Musical Experience and Musical Parenting of Infants" (Journal for Research in Music Education) and "Observational Indicators of Flow Experience: A Developmental Perspective of Musical Engagement in Young Children from Infancy to School Age" (Music Education Research) and "'Being With: The Resonant Legacy of Childhood's Creative Aesthetic" (Journal of Aesthetic Education). A guest editor for an issue of the Journal of Zero to Three entitled "The Musical Lives of Babies and Families," she has served in various professional leadership roles including Co-Chair of the Music Educators National Conference's Special Research Interest Group for Early Childhood, she currently serves as co-chair and immediate past chair for the International Society for Music Education's Early Childhood Commission. Dr. Custodero is currently developing programs for young children and families in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic. |
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CLAIRE LERNER, L.C.S.W.-C ZERO TO THREE |
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Claire Lerner is a licensed clinical social worker, child development specialist, and Director of Parenting Information and Resources at ZERO TO THREE where she oversees development of all parenting content, including its web site and numerous publications. She is also the co-author of ZERO TO THREE's best-selling parent books, Learning & Growing Together and Bringing Up Baby. Ms. Lerner writes a regular column in American Baby Magazine on young children's behavior. She is frequently quoted in Parents Magazine, Parenting, Child Magazine and Fit Pregnancy. In addition, she has been quoted in numerous national daily newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and London Times. Ms. Lerner has been a practicing clinician for over 17 years, providing parent education and counseling services to families with children of all ages. She also trains early childhood professionals and pediatricians on early childhood development and working effectively with parents. Ms. Lerner has participated on numerous national advisory panels and task forces related to early child development. She is currently on the Council of the National Parenting Education Network and is a liaison to the American Academy of Pediatric's Committee on Early Childhood Development. Ms. Lerner lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her partner, David, a pediatrician, and her children, Sam (14) and Jessica (12). |
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KYLE DEAN PRUETT, M.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
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Kyle Dean Pruett, M.D., is an international authority on child development with special interest in fatherhood and its effects on children and families. He was educated at Yale (B.A. in History and Music) and Tufts (M.D.), and is currently Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry and Nursing, Director of Medical Studies at the Yale Child Study Center (DMS); Yale University School of Medicine. He is immediate past president of ZERO TO THREE: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and their Families in Washington D.C., the nation's leading think tank on early child development. He serves on the Sesame Workshop Board of Trustees, and as Principal Investigator for the Longitudinal Study of Children of Primary Paternal Care; Co-Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Divorce Project (Smith Richardson Foundation); Co-Principal Investigator of Leadership Development Initiative (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation); and as Co-Principal Investigator with his wife, Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D. of the prestigious Supporting Fatherhood Initiative for the California Department of Social Services, Office of Abuse and Prevention. The two have also presented frequently to family bar and judicial training institutes in Canada and the United States. Dr. Pruett also maintains a private practice in Infant, Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. His areas of interest and expertise include the developmental vulnerabilities and mental health of infants, toddlers and young children, the effects of divorce on young children, school and day care consultation (public and private), clinical and legal dimensions of fatherhood (biological and non-biological), and role of the media in children's lives. He served as consultant to Vice President Al Gore, Jr., for the White House Conference Men in Children's Lives, and to the National Fatherhood Initiative. Dr. Pruett, also a professional musician, founded the Yale Conference on Medicine and Performing Arts and serves as member of the Performing Arts Medical Association. He is also principal author of over sixty original scientific articles and books including the award-winning The Nurturing Father, Me, Myself and I, and Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Dr. Pruett has also been a consultant to ABC News, CBS Morning News, Nova and was chosen by Peter Jennings to co-host the Children's Town Meeting on ABC the Saturday after 9/11. He co-hosted, with Oprah Winfrey, the nationally distributed videotape for new parents, Begin with Love. He lectures internationally, and represented the United States at the UN's first International Summit on Fathers and Children. He has been a columnist and contributing editor to Good Housekeeping, Parents, and Child magazines. He is a frequent presenter at the National Press Club and expert commentator for journalists writing for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek. Dr. Pruett hosted his own Lifetime Cable series "Your Child Six to Twelve with Dr. Kyle Pruett," and has appeared frequently on CNN, Oprah, ABC News, NPR and Good Morning America. He and his wife are parents to three daughters and one son, and live in New Haven. |
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CLAUDIA SAAD, M.A., CCC-SLP American Speech-Language Hearing Association |
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Claudia Saad, M.A., CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist who currently works as the Director of Multicultural Education at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in hearing and speech sciences, specializing in speech-language pathology, from the University of Maryland at College Park. Prior to joining ASHA, Ms. Saad worked at Children's Hospital's Scottish Rite Center for Childhood Language Disorders in Washington, D.C. as a bilingual speech-language pathologist. Ms. Saad provided speech-language diagnostic and therapeutic services to children with various communication disorders. Additionally, Ms. Saad specialized in service delivery to bilingual and multicultural populations. In her current role at ASHA, Ms. Saad leads the development of educational materials, products, and programs on issues relevant to the provision of speech, language, and hearing services to bilingual and multicultural populations. She has given numerous presentations on speech and language development, bilingualism, cultural competence, and the assessment and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse populations at various state and national conferences, school districts, healthcare facilities, and universities. |
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