Lois Bloom

Lois Bloom
TitleProfessor Emerita of Psychology and Education
Awards
  • ASHA Honors (1992)
  • G. Stanley Hall Medal (1997)
  • SRCD Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2003)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-disciplineDevelopmental psychology
InstitutionsColumbia University
Main interestslanguage development

Lois Masket Bloom is an American developmental psychologist and Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emerita of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.[1] Her pioneering research elucidated the roles of cognition, emotion, and social behavior in language acquisition.[2]

Bloom is the author of several books on language acquisition, including One Word At a Time: The Use of Single-Word Utterances Before Syntax[3], the culmination of Bloom's first longitudinal study, and the first-ever published study of language acquisition to use video-recorded data. Language Development From Two To Three[4] a collection of findings from research studies spanning two decades, highlights the tremendous achievements in language acquisition that occur during this period of childhood. For Language Development and Language Disorders[5], which she co-wrote with Margaret Lahey, Bloom connected her research with her early experience as a speech therapist working with language-delayed children. It offers guidelines for speech therapists assessing and assisting children with language delays.[2] The Transition From Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression[6] was the inaugural winner of the Eleanor E. Maccoby Book Award from the American Psychological Association,[7] Division 7, which recognizes the author of influential books in the field of developmental psychology.

  1. ^ "Lois Bloom, PH.D. Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emeritus". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  2. ^ a b "Lois Bloom, Biographical Sketch". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
  3. ^ Bloom, Lois (1976). One Word at a Time: The Use of Single Word Utterances Before Syntax. De Gruyter Mouton.
  4. ^ Bloom, Lois. (1991). Language development from two to three. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40178-X. OCLC 22275184.
  5. ^ Bloom, Lois. (1978). Language development and language disorders. Lahey, Margaret, 1932-. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-08220-1. OCLC 3168487.
  6. ^ Bloom, Lois (1996). The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression. Cambridge University Press.
  7. ^ "Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-10-22.