Amanda Delgado

Amanda Delgado is a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Learning Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. She conducts research on ways children engage with and learn from storybooks and digital media, as well as investigates methods to promote children’s spatial development.

Prior to joining the Child’s Play, Learning and Development Lab at UD, she received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL in 2018. Her undergraduate honors thesis, titled Individual Differences in Adults’ Intersensory Processing Predict Performance on Standardized Cognitive Tests, centered on adult attention skills and their executive function skills. She later received her Master of Arts in Education at the University of Delaware.

Education

• M.A., Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2022
• B.A. with Honors, Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2018

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, WALL Project, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2023-Present
• Graduate Research Assistant, Efficacy of “MI Write” Automated Writing Evaluation for Improving Writing Outcomes of Students who are Black, Hispanic, and Experiencing Poverty, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2023-Present
• Graduate Research Assistant, Child’s Play and Development Lab, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2020–present
• Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant, Infant Development Lab, Florida International University, 2018–2020
• Research Assistant, Linguisitics, English Department, Florida International University, 2018
• Research Assistant/Counselor, Brave Bunch Summer Treatment Program, Florida International University, 2017, 2018
• Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology Afterschool Tutor, Miami Lakes Educational Center, Miami Lakes, FL, 2017
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Infant Development Lab, Florida International University, 2016–2018

Honors and Awards

• Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence, University of Delaware, 2024
• SRCD 2023 Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program, Honorable Mention, 2022
• University Graduate Scholars Award, University of Delaware, 2020
• McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program Awardee, 2020
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Florida International University, 2018–present

Presentations

• Delgado, A., Polinsky, N., Cruz, T., Wolf, A., Parikh, V., Uttal, D., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2024, February-March). Children’s identification of a novel visual alphabet relates to their spatial skills. Poster, Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
• Isikoglu, N., Delgado, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Craig, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2024, March). Playing for spatial knowledge: A new kind of shape sorter. Paper presentation, The Association for the Study of Play, Rochester, NY, United States.
• Patt, R., Craig, J., Delgado, A., Puttre, H., Neale, D., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2023, October). Children’s category formation with and without adult support. Poster, Society for the Study of Human Development, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Delgado, A., Polinsky, N., Cruz, T., Wolf, A., Parikh, V., Uttal, D., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2023, August). Investigating relations between a novel visual alphabet and spatial skills in preschoolers. Poster, American Psychological Association Convention, Washington D.C., USA.
• Wilson, J., Desimone, L., Cruz, T., Zhang, F., Zhang, S., & Delgado, A. (2023, August). Applying an evaluative framework for effective formative assessment interventions. Poster, American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington D.C., USA.
• Delgado, A., Gaudreau, C., Dore, R.A. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2023, March). “Can you pretend to gnaw?” Learning from gestures during video chat reading. In. M. Castallana (chair), Opportunities for Learning from Picture Books and Shared Reading in Monolingual and Bilingual Environments. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development: Salt Lake City, UT.
• Vu, L., Preston, M., Delgado, A., Patt, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2023, March). An international study on children’s and adults’ perceptions of play. Poster, Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Delgado, A., Gaudreau, C., Herbst, E., Dore, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2022, July). Using video chat as a tool to facilitate preschool children’s access to shared book reading: A pilot study. Poster, ASHA Schools Connect.
• Ramirez, A. G., Delgado, A., Herbst, E., G.ksun, T., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2022, July). Exploring how mothers help children see events using gesture. Poster, International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa, Canada