The Babies, Toddlers, and Young Children (BITSY) SIG Presents: A Novel Method to Longitudinally Track Infant and Toddler Developmental Status: PediaTrac
Date and Time: Thursday, April 25 / 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM U.S. Mountain Time (UTC -6 hours).
CE Credits: 1.0 CE credit with optional purchase ($20 for members, $30 for non-members).
Abstract: This webinar will review direct assessment and caregiver report methods commonly used to assess infant and toddler developmental status and the strengths and limitations of these methods. Participants will learn about the development, validation, and initial application of a longitudinal caregiver report method to track infant and toddler developmental status and trajectories called PediaTrac. Participants will learn about potentially novel infant and toddler milestones based on caregiver report using PediaTrac. Participants will also learn how the attained cross-sectional and longitudinal trajectory metrics as well as these milestones can be used to predict risk and developmental status in infants born term and preterm. Finally, participants will learn how sources of variation in caregiver report such as sociodemographic variables and caregiver response styles impact the precision of our estimates of infant/toddler developmental status.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify and evaluate direct assessment and caregiver report methods that are commonly used to assess infant and toddler developmental status, the strengths and limitations of these methods, and the gaps addressed by the novel PediaTrac instrument.
2. Participants will be able to discuss sources of variation in caregiver ratings of infant/toddler development, such as sociodemographic factors (i.e., maternal age, maternal education, SES, neighborhood deprivation), and how caregiver response styles impact the precision of those ratings using examples from the PediaTrac Project.
3. This knowledge will help clinicians and researchers to evaluate tools to assess infants and toddler developmental status and trajectories, consider novel conceptualizations of infant and toddler milestones based on caregiver report, and consider methods to minimize, account for, and/or correct for sources of variation in caregiver report in developmental assessments.
Presenter:
Renée Lajiness-O’Neill, PhD
Eastern Michigan University
Dr. Renée Lajiness-O’Neill, trained as a pediatric neuropsychologist, is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Eastern Michigan University and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Michigan Medicine. She completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University, her predoctoral internship at Primary Children’s Medical Center, and her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical and Research Neuropsychology at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Lajiness-O’Neill is passionate about screening, risk detection, and surveillance of childhood disorders, particularly neurodevelopmental disorders. Her research focuses on brain-behavior relationships in children with neurodevelopmental disorders as well as development and validation of assessment methods to characterize neurobehavioral development. She is currently Project Director/Principal Investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 multisite, longitudinal grant (“PediaTrac: Web-based Measure to Screen and Track Early Developmental Trajectories”) for which her team is developing and validating a web-based tool to identify risk trajectories of neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism, cerebral palsy) and acquired disorders of childhood and related developmental psychopathologies. She is also Project Director of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Implementation grant for which her team is developing EEG methodologies across development. She was a recipient of the Rita W. Rudel Foundation Award for outstanding potential in the field of developmental neuropsychology from the International Neuropsychological Society. She serves on the Editorial Boards for Child Neuropsychology and the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. Her research, funded both internally and externally, explores the cognitive, behavioral, and neural correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders using neuropsychological and neurophysiological methods such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG). Her goal is to develop and validate bio-behavioral methods of assessing neurodevelopmental disorders and developmental psychopathologies.
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