Dr. Adam Winsler is visiting Charles Sturt University during March and April as an international scholar affiliated with the Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network. He is professor of applied
developmental psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
His research, represented in over 80 publications, examines early childhood programs, school readiness, kindergarten retention,
and bilingual language development among low-income, ethnically diverse,
immigrant children. He also studies private speech
(self-talk) and its role in behavioral self-regulation and executive function
among typically developing children as well as children with ADHD or autism. His books include: Scaffolding Children’s
Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education (Berk & Winsler, 1995), and Private
speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal
self-regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is also editor-in-chief of the journal, Early
Childhood Research Quarterly (ECRQ). For more details see http://winslerlab.gmu.edu
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| Professor Adam Winsler in Bathurst |
