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Aletha Huston, Ph.D.
Pricilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development, Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin
Description
From the website: Aletha C. Huston is the Pricilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development and the Associate Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact of child care and income support policies on children’s development. She is a Principal Investigator in the New Hope Project, a study of the effects on children and families of parents’ participation in a work-based program to reduce poverty, and collaborator in the Next Generation Project, a cross-study investigation of child care, income, employment effects of welfare and employment policies. She is an Investigator for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a longitudinal study following a national sample of children from birth through middle childhood. Her books include Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy, Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society, and Developmental Contexts of Middle Childhood: Bridges to Adolescence and Adulthood. She is President of the Society for Research in Child Development. She has won numerous research awards, including the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology, the Nicholas Hobbs award for Research and Child Advocacy, and the SRCD award for contributions to Child Development and Public Policy. Dr. Huston is the co-director of The Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) and serves as the Associate Director for the Population Research Center.
Topic(s): Cognitive Development & Learning, Legislation/Public Policy, Media Use & Access
User Type(s): Academic, Educator, Policymaker, Producer
Address
Department of Human Ecology
1 University Station A2700
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-0141
Contact Information
Phone(s): 512-471-0753
E-mail(s): (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
URL(s): http://www.utexas.edu/depts/he/hdfs/ahuston.htm
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