Flynn to serve as co-investigator of new project for assessing young children’s development

Assistant Professor of Child & Adolescent Development Rachel M. Flynn has a subcontract with Northwestern for an NIH-funded project to develop a novel approach for assessing development in young children. The five-year research project, called the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox, is designed to create a new national norm for administering, scoring, and interpreting infant and toddler assessments of cognition, social functioning, language (receptive and expressive), early mathematics/numeracy, self-regulation, and executive function in children between 1- and 42-months of age. Assessments will include direct child assessment and observations supplemented as needed by reporting from parents or legal guardians. Flynn leads the cognition-executive functioning domain area for the project.