https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits See where we've been! Note that locations are approximate to protect the privacy of schools we visit. en-us 2022-01-31 17:04:37 UTC 2025-11-08 16:42:35 UTC hello@padlet.com thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022519175 January 2022: We visited three fourth-grade classrooms in Maryland to talk about ways we can sort sounds. The students conducted an experiment to learn about how our brains interpret sounds.]]> 2022-02-01 01:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022519175 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022524102 November 2021: We visited 3 4th grade classrooms at a local elementary school to talk about finding patterns in sounds. Students loved our Speech Detectives activity!]]> 2022-02-01 01:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022524102 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022526078 October 2021: We visited 3 4th grade classrooms to talk about animal sounds in languages around the world.]]> 2022-02-01 01:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022526078 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022528844 June 2021: We visited two multi-grade assemblies at an elementary school in Washington, DC to do many of our language science demonstrations! Here, Lauren shows us how powerful our brains are using a game where we try to say the color of the letters without reading the words.]]> 2022-02-01 02:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022528844 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022530278 March 2021: We were honored to visit a local elementary school's virtual STEAM night to talk about language science! ]]> 2022-02-01 02:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022530278 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022530962 April 2021: We had so much fun teaching students about language science at an elementary school STEAM night!]]> 2022-02-01 02:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022530962 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022532336 November 2021: Thanks to Zoom, we can present anywhere in the world! It was great talking to a high school chemistry class about careers in language science and speech-language pathology. They had fun exploring patterns in sounds with the Speech Detectives activity!]]> 2022-02-01 02:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022532336 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022532996 June 2021: What a fun visit to a high school psychology class! The students had just finished their unit on language acquisition and asked such thought-provoking questions!]]> 2022-02-01 02:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022532996 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022535009 January 2022: We were honored to demonstrate our work to other language scientists at the Linguistic Society of America! ]]> 2022-02-01 02:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2022535009 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2066981796 We had a great time visiting 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders at an elementary school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania today! Kathleen led us in the Speech Detectives activity and also told the students about her research using a special computer that measures where people look while they hear sentences. The future language scientists asked great questions and did a great job creating, testing, and revising hypotheses!]]> 2022-02-25 20:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2066981796 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2084754697 March 2022: Visiting a general psychology classroom to talk about careers in speech-language pathology, language science, and research was so much fun! the students practiced applying the scientific method to speech production using our Speech Detectives activity.]]> 2022-03-08 19:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2084754697 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2108542937 March 2022: While visiting the University of Florida, Lauren gave an informal lab talk about doing outreach to teach about bilingualism! Erika joined remotely for a hybrid presentation.]]> 2022-03-22 23:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2108542937 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2108545202 March 2022: We visited nine classrooms at an elementary school to teach second, third, and fourth graders about language science! We had so much fun testing hypotheses about the sounds of languages and the choices speakers make when communicating!]]> 2022-03-22 23:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2108545202 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2162584635 General psychology high school students solved our Speech Detectives puzzle so quickly! They asked insightful follow-up questions about the sounds of speech and we had a great discussion about dialect variation!]]> 2022-04-28 13:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2162584635 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2162592091 High school students in general psychology loved the Speech Detectives activity and enjoyed learning about careers as speech-language pathologists. Students asked great questions about work settings and were particularly interested in learning about providing in-home early intervention services. We also talked about eye-tracking research methods and how scientists can tell what predictions listeners make based on what pictures they look at.]]> 2022-04-28 13:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2162592091 thelanguagescientists https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2202253956 We enjoyed visiting Dr. Jamie Thomas's Intro Linguistics class to talk about our outreach work.]]> 2022-05-27 14:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thelanguagescientists/our_visits/wish/2202253956