Current PhD Students
Elizabeth Choi MS, CCC-SLP
Elizabeth Choi MS, CCC-SLP
Faculty Mentor: Grace Baranek PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Research Lab: Baranek ASD and Neurodevelopment Lab
Year of Entry: 2018
Research Interests
My main research interests relate to infant and toddler development and growth. I am particularly interested in the role and trajectory of communication within infants’ and caregivers’ engagement in occupations such as the co-occupation of feeding. I also seek to explore how caregiver-infant bonding dynamics, especially in terms of caregiver response to infant cues and infant solicitations, can impact infants’ social and communicative development.
My career interests include bridging the knowledge gap between occupational science and speech, language, and hearing sciences with neonatal/infant therapies and practice. Additionally, I am interested in contributing to research involving best methods for evaluation of swallowing in breastfeeding infants and in developing noninvasive measures of swallowing function specifically for the breastfeeding population.
Education
Master of Science (MS)
in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
2017 | University of Arizona
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
in Applied Linguistics
2011 | University of California, Los Angeles
Publications
Book Chapters
Isaac, N., & Choi, E. (2018). Infant anatomy and physiology for feeding. In S. H. Campbell, J. Lauwers, R., Mannel, & B. Spencer (Eds.), Core curriculum for interdisciplinary lactation care (pp. 37-55). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Full text
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