Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2017 (Developmental Psychology)
B.S., New York University - 2007 (Applied Psychology)
Areas of Expertise:
Yana Kuchirko's area of research lies at the intersection of language, culture, and human development. Specifically, she examine how daily social interactions between parents and infants vary across different socioeconomic contexts, and how cultural and contextual differences in child rearing shape infants' developing skills across the first years of life.
Books and Publications
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. 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
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) 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
