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Adam Winsler

Adam Winsler

Adam Winsler, PhD ’94 (Psych. Studies/Child Development), is professor of applied developmental psychology and associate chair of graduate studies in George Mason University’s psychology department. He is also editor-in-chief of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Adam’s research focuses on the development of young children in the areas of: bilingual language acquisition, early childhood education and school readiness for ethnically diverse children in poverty. He’s studied private speech and self-regulation in typically developing children and children with ADHD or ASD and has also explored the self-regulatory benefits of early childhood music and dance/movement programs. Adam is an author of 70 journal articles and two books including Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.

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