Letitia Naigles

Letitia Naigles
CitizenshipUnited States of America
OccupationProfessor of Psychological Sciences
SpouseMark Naigles (1960-2021)
Awards
  • UConn AAUP Excellence Award for Research & Creativity: Career (2019)
  • UConn CLAS Award for Excellence in Research for the Behavioral and Life Sciences (2017)
Academic background
Education
  • University of Pennsylvania (Psychology, M.A. 1984; Ph.D. 1988)
  • Brown University (Cognitive Science, B.A. 1983)
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Academic work
DisciplinePsychological Sciences
InstitutionsUniversity of Connicticut

Letitia Rose Gewirth Naigles is a developmental psychologist known for her contributions to the field of language acquisition, including work on syntactic bootstrapping and language development trajectories of children with autism. She is Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut and the director of the UConn Child Language Lab.[1]

Naigles has served as Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), and as Conference Liaison to the 2027 Congress.[2] She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child Language.[3]

In 2017, Naigles was awarded the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research Award for the Biological and Life Sciences.[2] In 2019, she received the Research Excellence: Career Award from the University of Connecticut chapter of the American Association of University Professors.[4]

  1. ^ "Home | UConn Child Language Lab". cll.research.uconn.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  2. ^ a b "Letitia Naigles". IASCL. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  3. ^ "Journal of Child Language: Editorial Board".
  4. ^ "2019 UConn-AAUP Excellence Awards – UConn-AAUP". 2019-03-19. Retrieved 2024-10-29.