Early Development Lab wins Bridging the Word Gap Award!
ollen Russo, Israel Flores, Gabriele Strouse and Georgene Troseth of Vanderbilt’s Early Development Lab, led by Dr. Troseth, have won a Phase I Award for the Bridging the Word Gap Challenge! This Award was given by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to facilitate their development of a storybook app to model verbal interaction involving dialog and questioning. The app aims to help reduce the gap in early word exposure between low and high income children.