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Resources for Families
To support children and families during the pandemic, CCF has compiled a list of local resources for parenting, basic needs, mental health, and educational concerns...
CCF Student Volunteer Info Session
Calling all students! Join the Center for Children and Families on Thursday November 12th to learn about CCF's virtual outreach programs and how you can get involved...
CCF October 2020 Newsletter Published
Our October e-newsletter highlights research among our faculty affiliates, our partnership with CNM for data visualization, and a developmental screening success story...
Researchers To Study How Fathers Influence Children’s Language Development
This new study involving Dr. Margaret T. Owen, CCF director, and Dr. Raul Rojas, CCF faculty affiliate, will have important implications for low-income ethnic-minority children...
How To Help Victims for National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Dr. Denise Paquette Boots, CCF faculty affiliate, describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intimate partner violence and ways to help victims with the financial, legal, physical, and mental impacts of the violence...
Research of Center Affiliates
Close Relationships and Health Lab
Directed by Dr. Heidi Kane, this lab investigates the basic relationship processes that are associated with relationship functioning and the links between romantic relationships and physical health.
Directed by Dr. Raul Rojas, this lab focuses on child language from a longitudinal and processing perspective, specifically bilingual language development in typically developing children and in children with language impairment(s).
Directed by Dr. Margaret T. Owen, this lab researches self-regulation skills as an important foundation of school readiness.
The CHildren and Infant Listening Laboratory (CHILL)
Directed by Dr. Andrea Warner-Czyz, this lab explores how infants, children, and adolescents with hearing loss wearing cochlear implants learn to communicate with others, and how communication effects how they feel about themselves.
The Developmental Neurolinguistics Lab
Directed by Dr. Mandy Maguire, this lab is focused on understanding how children learn language and how the brain processes language in general.