School of Psychological Science

		Professor Edith Bavin Adjunct Professor		Phone: +61 3 9479 2530 Fax: +61 3 9479 1956 e.bavin@latrobe.edu.au Room 466 George Singer Building
		Teaching Dip (3 yr course) (London), B Ed. (Calgary), MA (Buffalo), PhD (Buffalo)

Following the completion of my PhD in Buffalo I taught at the University of Oregon before moving to Australia. I joined La Trobe University in 1982.

My research is on language. Prior to 1996, much of my research was with Indigenous children in central Australia acquiring Warlpiri as a first language. A second research interest was the motivation for language change, with research on the Western Nilotic languages of Uganda and Kenya.

Since 1996, some of my research has been assessing grammatical knowledge of two year-olds using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, some in collaboration with Professor Letty Naigles from the University of Connecticut. Other research has focused on children's language processing skills. More recently I have focused on the cognitive skills of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The research has investigated the visuo-spatial memory of children with SLI, memory, the attention and narrative skills of children with SLI, and the numerical cognition of children with SLI. Current studies are on memory and attention with children with SLI and children with ADHD. Other research is related to the auditory processing skills of 4-7 year olds (collaborating with David Grayden from the University of Melbourne and the Bionic Ear Institute), and the language of children with autism.

Memberships and associations

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Executive Committee, International Association for the Study of Child language
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Society for Language Development
Founding member, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre

Current Editorships:

Co-Editor (with Philip Dale), Journal of Child Language

Recent Publications

Book:

Bavin, E.L (Ed.) (2009). Handbook of child language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles and chapters:

Eadie, P., Ukoumunne, O. C., Skeat, J., Prior, M., Reilly, S. Bavin, E., Bretherton, L. (accepted August 2009). Assessing Early Communication Behaviours: Structure and Validity of the Communication and Symbolic Behaviour Scales -Developmental Profile in 12-month Infants.  International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.

Skeat, J., Wake, M., Reilly, S., Eadie, P., Bretherton, L., Bavin, E.L., & Ukoumunne, O. C.  (accepted July 2009). Predictors of Early Precocious Talking:  A Prospective Population Study. Journal of Child Language.

Reilly, S., Bavin, E.L., Bretherton, L., Conway, L., Eadie, P., Cini, E., Prior, M., Ukoumunne, O.C., & Wake, M. (accepted June, 2009).  The Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS): a prospective, longitudinal study of communication skills and expressive vocabulary development at 8, 12 and 24 months. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Bavin, E.L. (accepted May 2009).  Widening the field: The process of language acquisitionBrain and Behavioural Sciences.

Bavin, E.L., Grayden, D., Scott, K. & Stefanakis, . (accepted October 30 2008). The relationship between auditory processing and language in 4-5 year-olds. Language and Speech.

Reilly, S., Onslow, M., Packman, A., Wake, M., Bavin, E.L., Prior, M., Eadie, P., Cini, E., Bolzonello, C., & Ukoumunne, O.C. (2009). Predicting stuttering onset in children by the age of 3 years: a prospective, community cohort study. Pediatrics, 123, 270-277.

Bavin, E.L. (2009). Perspective on child language. In E.L. Bavin (Ed.) Handbook of Child Language (1-12). Cambridge University Press.

Bavin, E.L. (2009). Plot and evaluation: Warlpiri children’s frog stories. In J. Guo, S. Ervin Tripp & N. Budwig (Eds). Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: Research in the tradition of Dan I. Slobin (137-148). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reilly, S., Wake, M., Bavin, E.L., Eadie, P., Bretherton, L., Prior, M. (2008). Note: Late talking toddlers: the need for longitudinal research on community-based samples. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 43, 473-475.

Bavin, E.L., Prior, M., Reilly, S., Williams, J., Eadie, P., Barrett, Y., & Ukoumunne, O.C. (2008). The Early Language in Victoria Study: predicting vocabulary at age 1 and 2 years from gesture and object use. Journal of Child Language, 35, 687-701.

Prior, M., Bavin, E.L., Cini, E., Reilly, S., Bretherton, L., Wake, M., Eadie, P. (2008). Influences on communicative development at 24 months of age: child temperament, behaviour problems, and maternal factors, Infant Behaviour & Development, 31, 270-279.

Dodwell, K. & Bavin, E.L. (2008). Memory and narratives of children with Specific Language Impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 43, 201-218.

Reilly, S., Wake, M., Bavin, E.L., Prior, M., Williams, J., Bretherton, L., Eadie, P., Barrett, Y., Ukoumunne, O. C. (2007). Predicting language at 2 years of age: results from a prospective community study. Pediatrics, 120 (6):e1 - e9.

Lum, J. & Bavin, E.L. (2007). A study of grammaticality judgments by children with and without SLI. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50 (6)1618-1630.

Kidd, E. & Bavin, E.L. (2007). Lexical and referential influences on on-line spoken language comprehension: A comparison of adults and primary school age children. First Language, 27, 29-52.

Reilly, S., Eadie, P., Bavin, E.L, Wake, M, Prior, M., Williams, J., Bretherton, L., Barrett, Y. & Ukoumunne, O. C. (2006). Growth of infant communication between 8 and 12 months: A population study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 42, 764-770.

Kidd, E. & Bavin, E.L. (2005). Lexical and referential cues to sentence interpretation: An investigation of children’s interpretations of ambiguous sentences. Journal of Child Language, 32, 855-876.

Naigles, L., Bavin, E.L. & Smith, M. (2005). Toddlers Recognize Verbs in Novel Situations and Sentences. Developmental Science, 8, 424-431.

Bavin, E.L., Wilson, P., Maruff, P., Sleeman, F. (2005). Spatio-visual memory of children with Specific Language Impairment: evidence for generalized processing problems. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 40, 319-332.