Speech and Neurodevelopment Lab

Our lab is hosting a 5k the week of 10/24-10/31.

Through this Virtual 5K experience we hope to center black mamas in the cause for reproductive justice, health, and rights and shed light on the contributing factors to these outcomes including racial discrimination and inaccessibility to quality care.

Here is how you register: https://eventregistration.northeastern.edu/event/ea543653-c3b0-432d-b612-f0cbc16673f2/summary

All funds go to Mamatoto Village.

Virtual 5K and Fundraiser for Birthing Justice Virtual 5K and Fundraiser for Birthing Justice.

Congrats to Alaina Martens and Morgan Hines on this important publication:

Changes in non-nutritive suck between 3 and 12 months Non-nutritive suck (NNS) is one piece of the complex oral feeding process, yet there is paucity on how it develops throughout the first year of life.T…

Timing mattes when assessing non-nutritive suck in infants!

Changes in infant non-nutritive sucking throughout a suck sample at 3-months of age The goal of this study was to compare how infants’ non-nutritive suck (NNS) changes throughout a suck sample. Fifty-four full-term infants (57% male) completed this study at, on average, 3.03 (SD .31) months of age. These infants sucked on our custom research pacifier for approximately five minute...