Roberta Michnick Golinkoff holds the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of Education at the

University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 ma ...

and is also a member of the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics and Cognitive Science. An author of 14 books and over 150 professional articles on early childhood and infant development, she founded and directs the Child's Play, Learning, and Development Laboratory (formerly called The Infant Language Project), which investigates how young children learn their native language. Among her projects is the creation (with Jill de Villiers, Aquiles Iglesias, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Mary Wilson) of a computerized language assessment for preschoolers called the QUILS: Quick Interactive Language Screener. Her research has been supported by funding from national agencies, including the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

, the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

, the

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development The ''Eunice Kennedy Shriver'' National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It supports and conducts research aime ...

and the

Institute of Education Sciences The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the independent, non-partisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. IES' stated mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice ...

. Golinkoff served as an Associate Editor of Child Development, one of the premier research journals in her field, and serves on many advisory boards for organizations devoted to children's well-being and education. Golinkoff is a fellow of the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

and the

American Psychological Society The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in ...

. Golinkoff also consults with toy companies, governmental bodies, children's museums and libraries, and other organizations. In addition, she is one of the founders of the Ultimate Block Party movement, an event that took place in Central Park to celebrate playful learning. It attracted over 50,000 people. Other Ultimate Block Parties were held in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

, Canada, and

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...

. Golinkoff does development work for childhood education company MindChamps.

Education

Golinkoff received her bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

. Her postdoctoral fellowship was completed at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...

's Learning Research and Development Center.

Awards

Golinkoff received the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development's Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. In 2015, Golinkoff won two awards. From the American Psychological Association, she was named a Distinguished Scientific Lecturer. The Association for Psychological Science made her a James McKeen Cattell Fellow for "a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research". Golinkoff and her colleague

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Deborah Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she directs the Temple University Infant Language Laboratory. She is the author of 14 books and over 200 publications on ear ...

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...

were joint recipients of the 2009 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science and the 2011 Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the

. Golinkoff was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, both in 1988. Her book, ''Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less'', was awarded the Multiple Sclerosis Society's ''Books for a Better Life Prize'' in its Psychology division in 2003

Books

* Links Between Spatial and Mathematical Skills Across the Preschool Years (co-authored with B. Verdine, K. Hirsh-Pasek, & N. Newcombe, in press) * Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, 2016) * A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Berk, & D. Singer, 2009) * Celebrate the Scribble: Appreciating Children's Art (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, 2007) * Play=Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth (co-edited with K. Hirsh-Pasek & D. Singer) * Action Meets World: How Children Learn Verbs (co-edited with K. Hirsh-Pasek, 2006) * Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, 2003) * How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, 1999) * Becoming a Word Learner: A Debate on Lexical Acquisition (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, L. Smith, A. Woodward, N. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, & G. Hollich, 2000) * Breaking the Language Barrier: An Emergentist Coalition Model for the Origins of the Word Learning (co-authored with K. Hirsh-Pasek & G. Hollich, 2000) * The Origins and Growth of Communication (co-authored with L. Feagans & C. Garvey, 1984) * The Transition from Prelinguistic to Linguistic Communication (1983) * New Directions in Piagetian Theory and Practice (co-authored with I. Sigel & D. Brodzinsky, 1981)

References

External links

*http://udel.edu/~roberta/index.html *http://www.udel.edu/ILP/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Brooklyn College alumni Cornell University alumni University of Delaware faculty