Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2017 (Developmental Psychology)
B.S., New York University - 2007 (Applied Psychology)
Areas of Expertise:
Yana Kuchirko examines sociocultural and ecological contexts of child development. She focuses on how children's early experiences in their everyday settings (home, neighborhood, school) vary by ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, and gender, and relate to later educational outcomes. Through a strengths-based perspective on research, Kuchirko seeks to challenge dominant, deficit-oriented narratives about ethnic-racial minority children's development.
Books and Publications
Bennet, A., Kuchirko, Y., Ruble, D., Halim, M.H & Costanzo, P. The relation between children's daycare experiences and gender-typing behaviors among ethnic minority children. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2020
Gennetian, L., Coskun, L., Kennedy, J., Kuchirko, Y., & Aber, J.L. Option to Enroll or to Leave an Early Language Intervention: The Impact of Default Options on Parent Uptake. Journal of Child and Family Studies. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2020
Kuchirko, Y., & Nayfeld, I. Language Gap: Cultural Assumptions and Ideologies. In C. Huertas-Abril, & M. Gómez-Parra (Eds.), International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap (pp. 32-53). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch003 (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2020
Chazan, S. & Kuchirko, Y. The Emergence of meaning in play activity through the lens of the Children's Developmental Play Instrument (CDPI): A qualitative validity study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S. The Cultural context of infant
development: Variability, specificity, and universality. Chapter for Advances in Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. On differences and deficits: A critique of the theoretical and
methodological underpinnings of the word gap. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2019
Kuchirko, Y. Schatz, J., Fletcher, K, & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S.Characteristics of
mothers' language to infants during play tasks at 14 and 24 months. Journal of Child Language.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2019
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Escobar, K. Language and play in parent
child-interactions. Handbook of Parenting, 3E (ed Marc Bornstein).
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2019
Kuchirko, Y., Tafuro, L., & Tamis-LeMonda, C.S. Becoming a communicative partner:
Infant responsiveness to maternal language and gestures across the second year. Infancy.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2018
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Custode, Kuchirko, Y., Escobar, K. & Lo, T.
Routine Language: Infant-directed speech varies across home activities. Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2018
Chazan, S., & Kuchirko, Y. The children's developmental play instrument
(CDPI): An extended validity study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Suh, D. How infants' social, language,
emotional, and motor actions affect parental input. Language and Concept
Development from Infancy Through Childhood: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms of Learning.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2017
Tamis-Lemonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., Escobar, K., & Bornstein, M. (2017). Power
in methods: Language inputs to infants in structured and naturalistic contexts. Developmental Science.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017
Chazan, S., Kuchirko, Y., Beebe, B., & Sossin, M. A longitudinal case study
of traumatic play activity using the children's developmental play scale (CDPI). Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychology.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., & Kuchirko, Y. Parent-child interactions. Sage Encyclopedia of
Lifespan Development.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2016
Kuchirko, Y., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Luo, R., & Liang, E. "What happened
next?": developmental changes in mothers' questions to children. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015
Luo, R., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., Ng, F., & Liang, E. Ethnic variation in
mother-child book-sharing and children's storytelling. Infant and Child Development.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Baumwell, L., & Kuchirko, Y. Parental responsiveness and
scaffolding of language development. Encyclopedia of Language Development.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & C.S., Song, L. Why is infant language learning
facilitated by parental responsiveness? Current Perspectives in Psychological Science.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Song, L., Luo, R., Kuchirko, Y., Kahana-Kalman, R., Yoshikawa, H., &
Raufman, J. Children's language growth in Spanish and English across early development: association to school readiness. Developmental Neuropsychology.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., & Tafuro, L From action to interaction: mothers'
contingent responsiveness to infant exploration across cultural communities. IEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
