Hester Duffy Author

Steffie van der Steen (Ed.M. Harvard University, PhD University of Groningen) is an Associate Professor in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) where she teaches courses on child rearing and development. Her main research topics include animal-assisted interventions, special needs education and teacher-student interactions. Hester Duffy (PhD University of Plymouth) is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick, where she teaches both developmental psychology and research methods. Her research interests focus on early language acquisition, and in particular the impact of infant-directed speech, and the acquisition of minoritized languages (especially Irish). Catherine Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt, where she examines learning and development in social and cultural contexts. She has co-authored a number of titles on parenting and early child development and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology . She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.