Faculty

Karen Diamond

While it is increasingly common for young children with disabilities to participate in preschool with typically developing peers, children with disabilities have fewer opportunities for social interactions with peers. Dr. Diamond's research focuses on typically developing children's ideas about age-mates with disabilities and influences on children's decisions to include a peer with a disability in play.

Judy Myers-Walls

Dr. Myers-Walls' work has included populations from Serbia, Korea, the Philippines, and multiple cultural groups in the U.S. Publications and training programs have focused on the cultural context of parenting and of family life education, and study-abroad programs have allowed students to experience Indian culture in depth.

German Posada

Attachment theory suggests that attachment relationships is a universal phenomenon that is sensitive to context. Dr Posada's research investigates central propositions of the theory through studies that include cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-SES explorations and comparisons to test the generality and specificity of attachment relationships processes.

Seung-Hee Son

Dr. Son's research tries to find ways to disentangle a complex web of sociocultural and maturational factors on child development, by comparing low-income, Asian, and Latin-American children's experiences in home and school.