Sirada (Ping) Rochanavibhata
( She/Her/Hers )Sirada (Ping) Rochanavibhata is a developmental scientist studying cross-cultural and cross-linguistic language development. Her scholarship focuses on how children’s cultural environment and early linguistic experience influence their language acquisition and cognitive skills, with the aim to better understand developmental trajectories in children from diverse, underrepresented communities. Sirada completed her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., she worked as a caregiver for infants and toddlers at UCLA’s Infant Development Program, where she conducted research and developed curricula. Having completed her undergraduate degree in Los Angeles, Sirada is excited to be back in California and explore all that the Bay Area has to offer.
Educational Background
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
M.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University
B.A., Psychology (Applied Developmental Psychology Minor), University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Publications
Rochanavibhata, S., Chuang, Y.-C., & Marian, V. (2023). Bilingual mothers and children gesture differently across native and second languages. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 5(2), 201-230. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23492
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Thai and American mothers socialize preschoolers’ emotional development differently. Scientific Reports, 13, 12719. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39947-0
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Culture and gender influence self-construal in mother-preschooler reminiscing. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 653-677. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2239920
Rochanavibhata, S., Atagi, N., Schonberg, C. C., & Sandhofer, C. M. (2022). The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word learning. Infant Behavior and Development, 68, 101753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101753
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2022). Diversity in bilingual child language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42(6), 804-808. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221100138
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2022). Culture at play: A cross-cultural comparison of mother-child communication during toy play. Language Learning and Development, 18(3), 294-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1954929
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2021). Cross-cultural differences in mother-preschooler book sharing practices in the United States and Thailand. Journal of Child Language, 48(4), 834-957. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000562
Atagi, N., & Rochanavibhata, S. (2021). The role of diverse linguistic experiences in young children’s cognitive and language development. In E. B. Bauer, L. Sánchez, Y. Wang, & A. Vaughan (Eds.), Enhancing bilingual education: A transdisciplinary lens for improving learning in bilingual contexts (pp. 33-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003152194-4
Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2020). Maternal scaffolding styles and children’s developing narrative skills: A cross-cultural comparison of autobiographical conversations in the US and Thailand. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, 26, 100413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100413