Reaching New Heights in Early Childhood Research (REACH) Conference

Below you will find the presentation schedule for the symposia, oral presentations and poster presentations during the REACH conference. You can also download the abstract book here.

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Symposia (12 December, 09:30 – 11:30)

S1: The effects of COVID-19 on child development: interdisciplinary perspectives

Anika van der Klis
Lisa Krijnen
Carlijn van den Boomen
Pauline Slot
Hanneke Willemen
Peter Lugtig

S2: Mechanisms of exploration, play, and attention in early development: Interdisciplinary practices

Marijke Achterberg
Niilo Valtakari
Mariska Venema
Isa Linders

S3: Distal and proximal effects on child development: Integrating views from Economics and Pedagogy

Thomas van Huizen
Ekin Yurdakul
Vaso Tiliopoulou
Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz
Paul Leseman
Hanna Mulder
Maya Weinstein
Ronny Geva

Oral presentations

Session 1a – Environment and interaction (11 December, 10:45 – 12:04)

1.1	Before Words: How innate knowledge shapes preverbal infants’ use of prosody to express communicative functions	Elanie van Niekerk
1.2	The Implications of Measurement Models on Policy Evaluation	Annika Brown
1.3	The effect of gestational diabetes on early language development	Eline de Groot
1.4	Physical environmental factors and social-emotional development in infants	Nora Großmann

Session 1b – Development in at-risk populations (11 December, 10:45 – 12:04)

1.5	Early Identification of Developmental Delays: Bridging Research and Practice	Marjolein Verhoeven
1.6	Early Prosodic Boundary Perception: Innate Biases in Preterm Newborns	Jorik Geutjes
1.7	Early predictors of language outcomes in children born extremely preterm	Emma Everaert
1.8	Memory, attention and vocabulary in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome	Jantine Wignand

Session 2a – Diversity and biases (12 December, 14:00 – 15:30)

2.1	Neurodevelopmental disorders and multilingualism in child and adolescent psychiatry	Tessel Boerma
2.2	Learning prosodic phrasing in infancy: The role of gestures and visual attention	Victoria Reshetnikova
2.3	Resilience and Protective Factors for Maternal Mental Health in Eventful Pregnancies: Insights from Preeclampsia Survivors in Ghana	Salim Wangabi
2.4	Everyone should be a hero, but only some accents get the part: Language media biases in 5-year-olds	Thomas St. Pierre

Session 2b – Methodological considerations (12 December, 14:00 – 15:30)

2.5	Self Assessment by SASTA	Jan Odijk
2.6	Comparing EEG-preprocessing pipelines in infants: a test-retest analysis of neural tracking	Ádám Takács
2.7	Assessing language development in the YOUth baby & child cohort: an add-on wave	Caroline Junge

Poster presentations

Session 1 (11 December, 14:00 – 15:30)

1.1	Validating the Theory of Mind Scale in typically developing Dutch-speaking children and its relation to individual differences in language profiles	Nina Wyman
1.2	The Role of Associative Learning in the Acquisition of Prosody-Emotion Mappings during the Prenatal Period	Anna Ansems
1.3	Functional Flexibility in Vocalisation of Children and Adolescents with Non- or Minimally Verbal Autism	Elize Bruil
1.4	Eyes on the Input: Combining Pupillometry and the Head-turn Preference Paradigm in Infant Rule Learning	Areti Kotsolakou
1.5	After-school physical activity programs for children aged 4–12: a multidisciplinary analysis of benefits for children and communities	Paolo Perfetti
1.6	Creativity in dialogues: How do children interact with parents vs. strangers for generating creative ideas?	Honghong Bai
1.7	The complexity of parent-professional collaboration	Inge Klatte
1.8	Social preferences as human capital: intergenerational transmission in an ethnically diverse context	Enric Vila-Villasante
1.9	Development at risk! Associations between early child development and risk & protective factors in high-risk families	Marjolein Verhoeven
1.10	Poster REAL project	Isa Linders
1.11	Baby sleep in daycare	Ora Oudgenoeg
1.12	The influence of brain maturity on prosodic boundary processing at birth	Tirza van den Eijnde
1.13	Coordinated cues? Gesture and prosody in mother–infant interaction	Victoria Reshetnikova
1.14	Adolescents’ Relationship with their Parents as Predictor of Parenting Motivation in Adulthood	Sanne Geeraerts

Session 2 (12 December, 15:30 – 17:00)

2.1	Milk Intranasal Therapy (MINT) in neonates with Post-Haemorrhagic Ventricular Dilatation: A safety and feasibility study	Bobbie-Louise van Ernst
2.2	Project BAMBAM: BAby Motor development, monitored By A Multisensor wearable	Marike Boonzaaijer
2.3	The power of interaction: How turn-taking and screen time affect language development in children with and without DLD	Merel van Witteloostuijn
2.4	Effects of shared word order on intrasentential mixing in English-Dutch, Polish-Dutch, and Turkish-Dutch bilinguals	Vera Snijders
2.5	Evidence Synthesis on Parental Language Mixing Effects	Elma Blom / Emma Verhoeven
2.6	Methodological variability in the analysis of auditory ERP studies in infants and young children at risk of dyslexia	Hugo Schnack
2.7	‘Home is the Most Boring Play Space’: Exploring Children’s Risky Play in Greek Neighborhoods Through Play-Along Interviews	Elisavet Pasidi
2.8	Camera-based Assessment of Gendered Toy Preference in Free-Play Parent-Child Interactions	Peitong Li
2.9	How does comparing (dis)similar objects affect young children’s creative idea generation? Exploring the role of diversity in facilitating creativity.	Honghong Bai
2.10	Nonword repetition skills of preschoolers with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and peers with Developmental Language Disorder are weak, but differently associated with vocabulary	Tessel Boerma
2.11	Multimodal Prosodic Phrasing in Infant-Directed Speech: Testing the Cumulative-Cue Hypothesis with Gesture Restriction	Roos Ledeboer
2.12	Predicting Language Abilities in Young Children: Parental Vocabulary Knowledge and the Language Input Environment	Caroline Junge
2.13	The origin of social bonding through shared experiences in a smartphone dominated world	Wouter Wolf
2.14	Automated three-dimensional ultrasound segmentation of fetal brain regions using annotations derived from magnetic resonance imaging	Gaby van Iersel