Assistant Professor (Term)

Multicultural Student Network, Faculty Advisor

Office: Room 301F, Life Sciences Building
Phone: (502) 852-3694
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email: danielle.brown@louisville.edu

Early Intervention for Families Lab

Lab Location: Room 358F, Life Sciences Building
Lab Phone: (502) 852-2348
Lab Website: Early Intervention for Families Lab

Education

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Louisville, 2007

M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Louisville, 2005

B.A., Elementary Education, Psychology, American University 2003

Research Interest

• School readiness skills of children from low-income households
• Individual differences in attention skills
• Investigation of home, family, and culture as  influential factors
• Individual differences in discourse processes
• Early narrative causal understanding
• Investigation of home, family, and culture as  influential factors
  

Selected Publications

Brown, D. D. (2008). The use of causal connections by young children: Implications for school readiness. NHSA Dialog: Research-to-Practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field, 11(1), 44-53.

Burns, B. M., Chang, F., Snyder, E., Robinson, J. B., Davis, D. W., Weatherholt, T., Strother, S., Harris, R. C., & Brown, D. (2007, submitted). Specific attention skills and achievement in young children of poverty. Early Education & Development.

Brown, D.D., Weatherholt, T. N., & Burns, B. M. (under revision). Allocating attention to television, attention skills, and the home environment: Examining the attentional inertia of children from low-income families.

Brown, D. D. & Burns, B. M. (in preparation). Preschool children's storytelling in different narrative contexts: An assessment of early narrative causal understanding.

Brown, D. D., Weatherholt, T. N., & Burns, B. M. (in preparation). What predicts parent reports of children's attention problems? Examining attention skills, temperament, and home chaos as predictors.

Courses Taught

• Cognitive Psychology (PSYC-322) - Team Based Learning (fall)
• Multicultural Psychology (PSYC-366-WR) - Service Learning (spring)