Tellander, Fitch, Bosworth, and Sellers contribute research and present on children’s communication
Savannah Tellander, a second-year cognitive science doctoral student, presented “Coordinating attention, coordinating turns: Communicative behaviors in deaf preschoolers’ signed interaction,” co-authored by Rain Bosworth, associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, and Allison Fitch, assistant professor of psychology, at the Boston University Conference on Language Development in Boston on Nov. 6. Fitch and Bosworth also presented “Associations between motor development and Communicative Development Inventory measures in English- and ASL-exposed preschool children” at the same conference, and co-authored “Caregiver nonverbal communicative behaviors across speaking, signing, and bimodal dyads” with Sarah Bella Sellers ’26 (psychology).
