兔子先生

December 2022

• DNL members have 7 scientific papers published in 2022! Key outlets include Contemporary Educational Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, and a chapter in the edited book, Pediatric Neuropsychology (3rd Ed.).

August 2022

• The DNL welcomes Cristina Boada to the lab!
• Abby Farrell successfully defends her masters thesis, Interactions of reading skill, working memory, and mind wandering on reading comprehension. Yay Abby! 

July 2022

• Anthony Gioia begins clinical internship at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Philadelphia.

June-August 2022

• Huge congratulations to Drs. Kelly Macdonald and Kelly Halverson, both of whom graduated from UH with their Ph.D. in clinical psychology. A wonderful accomplishment and well-deserved! Dr. Macdonald begins her postdoctoral fellowship at Children鈥檚 National Hospital (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Halverson begins her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida (Gainesville).

February 2022

• Several members of the DNL (Dr. Cirino, Kelly Macdonald, Kelly Halverson, Abby Farrell) presented papers and/or posters (virtually) at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

December 2021

• Kelly Halverson successfully defends her dissertation, Impact of acculturation on math achievement in community college students. Way to go Kelly!
• DNL members have 12 scientific papers published in 2021! Key outlets included Developmental Neuropsychology; Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; Journal of Cognition and Development; Contemporary Educational Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Scientific Studies of Reading; and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, among others.
• Dr. Cirino completes his term as Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Individual Differences, where the impact factor rose from 1.37 to 3.90 during his six-year tenure. He will remain as Outgoing Editor-in-Chief for 2022. 

August 2021

• The DNL welcomes Cassidy Salentine to the lab!
• The Developmental Neuropsychology Clinic (DNC) opens! The DNC provides neuropsychological evaluations for school-aged children (kindergarten through high school). Dr. Cirino runs the clinic, which serves as a practicum setting for his graduate students, who are integral to its operation.

June-August 2021

• DNL members current and former moving! Kelly Macdonald begins clinical internship at Texas Children鈥檚 Hospital (Houston). Kelly Halverson begins clinical internship at the Minnesota VA (Minneapolis). DNL alumnus Dr. Amanda Child secures a position as a neuropsychologist at UT-Health (Houston). Dr. Emily Warren alumnus secures a position as a neuropsychologist at UAB Medical Center (Birmingham, AL). DNL alumnus Dr. Jesse Fischer secures a position as a neuropsychologist at the UCLA Semel Institute (Los Angeles, CA).

February 2021

• Several members of the DNL (Kelly Macdonald, Abby Farrell, Anthony Gioia) presented posters (virtually) at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in San Diego, CA.

December 2020

• Congratulations to Kelly Macdonald, who successfully defended her dissertation, entitled 鈥淐lassifying the degree of balanced bilingualism among struggling middle school English learners and relations to reading outcomes鈥�.

August 2020

• The DNL welcomes Abby Farrell to the lab!

July 2020

• Congratulations to Will Lacey, who successfully defended his dissertation, entitled 鈥淭he role of number line estimation and cognitive attention in procedural fractions鈥�.

May 2020

• Congratulations to Kelly Halverson, who successfully defended her master鈥檚 thesis, entitled 鈥淓xecutive functioning in struggling readers: The NIH Examiner鈥�.

February 2020

• Several members of the DNL (Kelly Macdonald, Kelly Halverson, Anthony Gioia, Andrea Ochoa-Lopez) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Denver, CO. 

August 2019

• The DNL welcomes Natalie Ridgely to the lab!

June-August 2019

• DNL members moving! Will Lacey begins clinical internship at Henry Ford (Detroit). Dr. Amanda Child begins postdoctoral fellowship (Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore). Dr. Emily Warren begins postdoctoral fellowship (Texas Children鈥檚, Houston). Dr. Jesse Fischer begins postdoctoral fellowship (UCLA). DNL alumnus Dr. Elyssa Gerst secures a position as a neuropsychologist at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Atlanta.

April 2019

• DNL undergraduate member (and now first year graduate student in Dr. Luis Medina鈥檚 CARMA lab at UH) Andrea Ochoa successfully defended her senior honors thesis, entitled 鈥淚nternalizing and externalizing symptoms and their relation to math difficulties and spina bifida鈥�.

March 2019

• DNL member Kelly Macdonald is awarded a 3-year, $106K NIH predoctoral NRSA (F-31), entitled 鈥淭he roles of first and second oral language processes in reading and math outcomes among English language learners in middle school鈥�. What a fantastic accomplishment!

February 2019

• Several members of the DNL (Amanda Child, Kelly Halverson, Kelly Macdonald, Emily Warren) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in New York, NY.

December 2018

• Dr. Cirino hosts the advisory panel for his new NSF grant on math learning disabilities in college.

November 2018

• The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities hosts the annual meeting of the NIH research consortium, Learning Disabilities Research Center, including scientists from all 3 Centers (Texas, Colorado, and Florida State).

September 2018

• Dr. Cirino received a $2.5M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), entitled 鈥淢ath learning disabilities among young adults in college: Structure, identification, and validation鈥�.
• Dr. Cirino has attained the rank of Full Professor, at the 兔子先生.

August 2018

• The DNL welcomes Anthony Gioia to the lab!
• DNL member Emily Warren successfully defended her doctoral Dissertation, 鈥淧redictors of social adjustment in pediatric brain tumor survivors: A comparison of proton and photon radiation therapy groups鈥�. She is currently on clinical internship at Nationwide Children鈥檚 Hospital in Columbus, OH.
• DNL member Kelly Macdonald submitted an F-31 proposal to NIH, entitled 鈥淭he roles of first and second oral language processes in reading and math outcomes among English language learners in middle school鈥�.

July 2018

• DNL members Amanda Child and Kelly Macdonald (with Dr. Cirino) publish the manuscript, 鈥淟ongitudinal overlap of reading and math and their predictors鈥� in Contemporary Educational Psychology.
• TCLD team members (with Dr. Cirino) publish the manuscript, 鈥淐ontrol engagement during sentence and inhibition fMRI tasks in children with reading difficulties鈥�, in Cerebral Cortex.

June 2018

• Dr. Cirino presented at a symposium of the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, in Brighton, UK, reviewing a series of studies focused on executive function.
• TCLD team members (with Dr. Cirino) publish the manuscript, 鈥淓xecutive functions and response to intervention: Identification of struggling readers鈥�, in Learning Disability Quarterly.

May 2018

• DNL member Jesse Fischer successfully his doctoral Dissertation, 鈥淔rontostriatal white matter integrity relations with 鈥榗ool鈥� and 鈥榟ot鈥� self-regulation following pediatric traumatic brain injury鈥�. He is currently on clinical internship at the UCLA Semel Institute in Los Angeles.
• DNL member Amanda Child successfully defended her doctoral Dissertation, 鈥淎cademic fluency in pediatric brain tumor survivors treated with proton beam radiation therapy versus photon radiation therapy鈥�. She is currently on clinical internship at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.
• DNL undergraduate member Andrea Ochoa received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), to work in the DNL this summer. Congratulations Andrea!
• Dr. Cirino publishes the manuscript, 鈥淟ongitudinal algebra prediction for early versus later takers鈥�, in the Journal of Educational Research.

March 2018

• DNL undergraduate member Rachel O鈥橰eilly successfully completed her senior honors thesis, entitled 鈥淚nternalizing and externalizing symptoms and their relation to math difficulties and spina bifida鈥�.
• Dr. Cirino gave a plenary talk at the 24th Butters-Kaplan West Coast Neuropsychology Conference, entitled 鈥淯nderstanding the developmental neuroscience of mathematics: Application to neurodevelopmental populations鈥�, in San Diego, CA.
• DNL member Amanda Child (with Dr. Cirino) has her thesis, 鈥淎 cognitive dimensional approach to understanding shared and unique contributions to reading, math, and attentional skills鈥�, published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities.

February 2018

• Several members of the DNL (Amanda Child, Kelly Macdonald) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Washington, DC. Dr. Cirino presented as well.
• Dr. Cirino (with TCLD team members and DNL member Elyssa Gerst), have their manuscript, 鈥淎 framework for executive function in the late elementary years鈥�, published in Neuropsychology.

January 2018

• TCLD team members (with Dr. Cirino), have their manuscript, 鈥淐ortical thickness and local gyrification鈥� in children with developmental dyslexia鈥�, published in Cerebral Cortex.

October 2017

• Dr. Cirino is PI of a new project on attention and achievement. The project is one of five in the new Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (TCLD), which you can read more about by clicking here.

September 2017

• DNL member Jesse Fischer鈥檚 thesis work sleep and internalizing disorders in children with TBI, is now in press in the Journal, Neuropsychology.

August 2017

• The DNL welcomes Kelly Halverson to the lab!
• DNL member Kelly Macdonald publishes a first-author paper in the Journal Frontiers in Psychology, on 鈥渘euromyths鈥�. You can read a summary of this paper here. Kelly was featured (along with co-author Dr. Lauren McGrath, and also Dr. Daniel Willingham) on the NPR show 鈥淪cience Friday鈥� with Ira Flato, which you can listen to here.
• A Special Issue on executive functions and achievement (edited by Dr. Cirino, with Dr. Erik Willcutt) is published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities. A link to the table of contents of the special issue is available here. Included in the special issue is an article by TCLD team members (including Dr. Cirino, and DNL members Elyssa Gerst, Amanda Child, and Emily Warren), 鈥淓xecutive function, self-regulated learning, and reading comprehension: A training study鈥�.

July 2017

• DNL member Jesse Fischer completed all requirements of his comprehensive exams, including passing the EPPP, and attains LPA status.

May 2017

• Congratulations to Dr. Elyssa Gerst, who received her Ph.D. at UH commencement! She completed her internship, and is heading off to her postdoctoral fellowship at Children鈥檚 National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Way to go, Dr. Gerst 鈥� welcome to the DNL alumni club!
• Congratulations to Dr. John Elias, who received his Ph.D. at UH commencement! He completed his internship, and is now beginning his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, NM. Way to go, Dr. Elias, and welcome to the DNL alumni club!

April 2017

• DNL member Will Lacey successfully defends his thesis, 鈥淭he Role of Magnitude Processes and Working Memory for Learning Algebra鈥�.

February 2017

• Several members of the DNL (Emily Warren, Elyssa Gerst, Amanda Child, Will Lacey) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Cirino presented as well.

January 2017

• DNL member Elyssa Gerst鈥檚 thesis work, 鈥淐ognitive and behavioral rating measures of executive function as predictors of academic outcomes in children鈥�, is published in Child Neuropsychology.

August 2016

• The DNL welcomes Kelly Macdonald to the lab!
• DNL member Amanda Child completes all requirements of her comprehensive exams, including passing the EPPP, and attains LPA status.

June 2016

• DNL member Elyssa Gerst successfully defends her dissertation, 鈥淧rocessing Speed in Children: Examination of the Structure in Middle Childhood and its Impact on Reading鈥�

May 2016

• DNL member Emily Huston-Warren successfully defends her thesis, 鈥淭he Role of Executive Functions and Self-Regulated Learning in Math Development: A Path Analytic framework鈥�

February 2016

• Several members of the lab (John Elias, Amanda Child) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Boston, MA. Dr. Cirino presented as well.
• DNL member Elyssa Gerst matches for internship at Children鈥檚 Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO. Congratulations Elyssa!
• DNL member John Elias matches for internship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, NM. Congratulations John!

January 2016

• Dr. Cirino is named Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Individual Differences

 

December 2015

• DNL member Amanda Child successfully defends her thesis, 鈥淎 cognitive dimensional approach to understanding comorbidity among reading disability, math disability, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder鈥�

November 2015

• Elyssa Gerst thesis paper is in press in Child Neuropsychology. Way to go Elyssa!

October 2015

• Dr. Cirino presented a talk on executive functions in a symposium at the International Dyslexia Association
• John Elias successfully defended his dissertation, "A model for the contributions of executive functions, math anxiety, and parental expectations toward math achievement". Congratulations, John!

September 2015

• Dr. Cirino is named Associate Editor of the journal, Learning and Individual Difference

August 2015

• A special issue in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, on Executive Functions and Their Contribution to Academic Skills (and edited by Dr. Cirino, with Dr. Erik Willcutt), is in press.

July 2015

• Dr. Cirino presented on executive function and reading comprehension in a symposium at the annual meeting of the Scientific Studies of Reading, Waikaloa, HI
• Emily Maxwell began a postdoc with Children's Hospital Colorado

June 2015

• Emily Maxwell successfully defended her dissertation, "The role of executive functioning, anxiety, and family burden on mathematical performance in children with traumatic brain injury." Congratulation, Emily
• February 2015Several members of the lab (Emily Maxwell, Emily Huston-Warren, Amanda Child, and Elyssa Gerst) presented posters at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Denver, CO. Dr. Cirino presented as well.

 

• Elyssa Gerst Successfully defended her thesis, "Cognitive and behavioral rating measures of executive function as predictors of academic outcomes in children. Congratulations Elyssa!

September 2014

• The DNL welcomes Will Lacey to the lab

April 2014

• Elyssa Gerst successfully defends her thesis proposal, 鈥� Cognitive and behavioral rating measures of executive function as predictors of academic outcomes in children鈥�
• Elyssa Gerst is named student representative to the Houston Neuropsychological Society ( HNS)

March 2014

• Dr. Cirino presents an address on the neuropsychology of math at the West Coast Neuropsychology Conference in San Diego, CA.

February 2014

• Becca Martin, John Elias, Elyssa Gerst, and Emily Huston-Warren present at the International Neuropsychological Society ( INS) Meeting in Seattle, WA.
• Congratulations to Emily Maxwell, who successfully matched with Denver Children鈥檚 Hospital APA accredited clinical psychology internship. Way to go, Emily!

 

• December 2013
  • Emily Maxwell successfully defends her dissertation proposal, 鈥淭he role of anxiety, family environment, and executive functioning on mathematical performance in children with traumatic brain injury鈥�
  • John Elias successfully defends his dissertation proposal, 鈥淎 model for the contributions of executive functions, math anxiety, and parental expectations toward math achievement鈥�
• November 2013
  • Becca Martin successfully defends her Dissertation, 鈥淢emory in children with temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy, pre- and post-operatively鈥�
• September 2013
  • The DNL welcomes Amanda Child and Emily Huston-Warren to the lab!
• February 2013
  • Congratulations to Becca Martin, who successfully matched with The Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Health System (Emory/Grady) APA accredited clinical psychology internship. Way to go, Becca!
  • Congratulations to Emily Maxwell and John Elias, who successfully passed Neuropsychology Specialty Comprehensive Exams
  • Becca Martin, Emily Maxwell, and Dr. Cirino present at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting in Waikoloa, HI.
• January 2013
  • Dr. Cirino is named Treasurer for the Houston Neuropsychological Association (HNS), continuing his long involvement with this organization.

 

December, 2012

• Dr. Cirino is named to the Editorial Board of the Learning Disabilities Quarterly

November, 2012

• John Elias successfully defended his Masters Thesis, 鈥� Procedural versus conceptual Algebra Refresher Interventions in adults and the moderating effects of cognitive abilities鈥�, which he is now preparing for publication.

October, 2012

• Becca Martin successfully defended her Dissertation proposal, 鈥� Memory and executive functions in pre- and post-operative epilepsy in children with temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy鈥�
• Dr. Cirino is named to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

September, 2012 

• Dr. Cirino is awarded tenure as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.

August, 2012

• Emily Maxwell successfully defended her Masters Thesis, 鈥� Visual perception in children with spina bifida myelomeningocele and the impact of posterior cortical changes鈥�, which she is now preparing for publication.
• The lab welcomes Elyssa Gerst, a first year graduate student in neuropsychology

July, 2012

• Congratulations to Becca Martin for passing Comprehensive Exams, including successfully passing the EPPP! Way to go Becca!

June, 2012

• Congratulations to John Elias and Emily Maxwell for successful defenses of their thesis proposals! John鈥檚 thesis is entitled, 鈥� Procedural versus conceptual algebra refresher interventions in adults and the moderating effects of cognitive abilities鈥�. Emily鈥檚 thesis is entitled, 鈥� Visual perception in children with spina bifida myelomeningocele and the impact of posterior cortical changes鈥�.

April, 2012

• Becca Martin, is named student representative to the Houston Neuropsychological Society ( HNS).
• Dr. Cirino is named to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Learning Disabilities.

February, 2012

• At the 40th Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society ( INS), the lab was active in presenting posters! John Elias presented Magnitude representation, spatial abilities, and mathematical performance in adults. Emily Maxwell presented Symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude comparison and math skills in adults. Becca Martin presented, Counting procedural skill and conceptual knowledge in kindergarten as predictors of grade 1 math skills.

January, 2012

• Becca Martin is named as the Programs Coordinator, for Students in Neuropsychology (SINS), an organization of the International Neuropsychological Society ( INS).
• Dr. Cirino is named to the Association for Doctoral Education in Clinical Neuropsychology ( ADECN). He is Treasurer for ADECN.
• Dr. Cirino is named Member at Large for the Houston Neuropsychological Association ( HNS), continuing his long involvement with this organization.

 

December, 2011

• The competing continuation of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities ( TCLD) is funded. Dr. Cirino is PI of Project II, Development of a Framework for Executive Functions in the Context of Reading Comprehension Skills and Difficulties

April, 2011

• The lab is currently running a study evaluating the contributions of number sense and other cognitive skills in relation to mathematical skill in undergraduates. Current UH students may sign up for this study within the SONA system.
• Dr. Cirino will present a talk at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Montreal, entitled, 鈥� Profile Analysis of Children with MD With and Without RD on Mathematical Competencies in 2nd and 3rd Grade鈥�

February, 2011

• Becca Martin presented two first-author posters at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) meeting in Boston in February, 2011.  The title of the posters were 鈥� Stability of math skills in children categorically and continuously鈥�, and 鈥� The role of non-symbolic and symbolic estimation and comparison in computational ability in adults鈥�.

March, 2011

• Dr. Cirino recently received an Institute for Education Sciences (IES) Exploration grant with Co-PI鈥檚 Tammy Tolar, Ph.D. (at TIMES/UH), and Lynn Fuchs, Ph.D. (at Vanderbilt University), entitled 鈥� Arithmetical and Cognitive Antecedents and Concomitants of Algebra Skill鈥�. The grant will run from August, 2011 to August 2015.

 

August, 2010

• We welcome Emily Maxwell and John Elias to the lab. Emily and John are first year graduate students in the Neuropsychology Track of the Clinical Psychology program at UH.