Jill Gilkerson

TL;DR: Television exposure is not independently associated with child language development when adult-child conversations are controlled, but adult- child conversations are robustly associated with healthy language development.

TL;DR: Audible television is associated with decreased exposure to discernible human adult speech and decreased child vocalizations, which may explain the association between infant television exposure and delayed language development.

TL;DR: The first automated approach implemented is not only able to track children's development on acoustic parameters known to play key roles in speech, but also is able to differentiate vocalizations from typically developing children and children with autism or language delay.

TL;DR: Analyzing the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong, automatically labeled audio recordings of children with and without autism found that an adult was more likely to respond when the child’s vocalization was speech related rather than not speech related.

TL;DR: This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments, and extended on previous research reporting language behavior differences across socioeconomic groups.