Is feeding the new play? Are all pacifiers created equal? What are long-term speech and language outcomes for preterm infants? Pediatric Feeding, Speech, and Language with Emily Zimmerman

Emily Zimmerman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders; Director of the Speech and Neurodevelopment Lab, Northeastern University

Favorite Children’s Books:

• Roald Dahl
• Little Dracula’s First Christmas ​​

Articles and Resources

• ​Emily's Lab website  (Find all of Emily’s publications here!)
• Emily's Lab on Facebook
• X: @emzimmy
• Do Infants Born Very Premature and Who Have Very Low Birth Weight Catch Up With Their Full Term Peers in Their Language Abilities by Early School Age?
• Is Feeding the New Play? 
• Kindergarten Classroom Functioning of Extremely Preterm/Extremely Low Birth Weight Children
• Feeding Matters
• Emily on ‘Down the Hatch’ podcast

News Stories about Emily’s work:

• https://www.adinstruments.com/heroes/dr-emily-zimmerman
• https://web.northeastern.edu/routes/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Vital-Signs_Summer-2017_Binkies-Do-More-than-Pacify.pdf
• https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/12/10/a-northeastern-professor-wants-premature-infants-to-thrive-in-the-hospital-this-simple-fix-might-help/
• https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/10/05/researchers-receive-13-2-million-to-continue-study-of-health-challenges-facing-women-children-in-puerto-rico/