Personal Statement Assignment
Write a statement about your personal and professional goals (including your assign research areas of interest). About 2-3 pages.
Research Interests (1): Impact of Sleep on Health and Quality of Life in Children with Chronic Health Conditions, Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology, Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
Research interests (2): research aims to understand how children’s home learning experiences and parent-child interactions influence and support early language and cognitive development, with a focus on children and families from socioeconomically, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. In her research, she asks questions such as, how do parents help infants and young children learn language and knowledge through day-to-day interactions? Do parents from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds interact with their children differently? Also interested in developing early interventions for children and caregivers from at-risk families, using the framework of community-based participatory research (CBPR).