Profile: Jana Iverson

Physical Therapy, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Options Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Work-Study Funding, Potential for Academic Credit Overview The Infant Communication Lab studies the relationship between motor activity, postural stability, communication, and language in typically developing infants and infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Current projects focus on three major topics: a) how changes in infant motor activity, postural […]

Jana Iverson

Jana Iverson’s research focuses on relations between early motor development and later-emerging ‘higher-order’ skills (i.e., communication and language). Specifically, she is interested in understanding: The way in which development in motor skills provides infants with an increasingly diverse set of opportunities for acquiring and refining abilities that contribute to development in domains such as communication […]