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Your topic is Lois Bloom who works in the field of child development with a focus on language acquisition and word learning. Here is a link to her biographical sketch: http://www.columbia.edu/~lmb32/Biographical%20Sketch%202017.htm (A link to her faculty profile is here: http://www.columbia.edu/~lmb32/) Your group members are Paige Campanelli and Robert Tarantola. Please work in this sandbox. All of your group members’ contributions will be visible.

Lois Bloom (born in 1916) is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of child development with a major focus on language acquisition and word learning. This particular psychologist has received a lot of recognition for her studies, and works. She is a writer, and has explained in many of her works how she does what she does. One of the many awards received by Bloom was the Fellow, American Psychological Association (Division 7). This award was one of the first she has been recognized for. It made her career more successful as she continued doing research about child development.

Biography
Lois Bloom has a very well developed educational background. Bloom received her B.A. degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1956. She then went to graduate school to receive her M.A; she received this degree from the University of Maryland in 1958. As time progressed she went for her Ph.D. with Distinction at Columbia University in 1968. As time progressed she worked under the supervision of Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education; he worked in Columbia University during the years of 1991-1998. Bloom had researched developmental psychology as a graduate student.

Lois Bloom has opened a child study center where there are many professors who teach children on development.

Blooms work on society has help find children who have developmental problems ways to work around them. Some findings are mentioned in her works of literature. One book written by Bloom is One word at a time: The use of single-word utterances before syntax. This book has explained how children can use words and language to help with development.

She has received a numerous amount of awards during her career. Many of these awards were due to her great research on child development, and how certain behaviors can be treated. Her awards show how well of a researcher she is.

She had presented at schools on her free time, and spent a lot of her time in the child center where she would research. Her life revolved around this at all times.

Research
Lois Bloom is best known for being a psychologist and a professor. She has received a lot of recognition for her studies. She is a psychologist for child development. The Child Study Center's Lois Bloom Lecture is a gift she gave to some colleges. It is a lectureship fund that is supports lectures by outstanding experts in the field of child studies.

Early Conversations and Word Learning: Contributions from Child and Adult- Temporal contingencies between child and mother speech. It measures against both of their rate of speech. The child was more likely to talk before mother speech and the mother was likely to talk before the child speech. 1/3 of all child speech occurred in response to something that the mothers had said. When the mothers responded, they most likely repeated or clarified what the child had said. The results were that children learn words for expression and interpretation in order to bring words to their conversations that they've learned somewhere else.

Representative Publications
Bloom, L., Lifter, K., & Hafitz, J. (1980). Semantics of Verbs and the Development of Verb Inflection in Child Language. Language,56(2), 386-412. doi:10.2307/413762

Bloom, L. (1998). Language acquisition in its developmental context. In W. Damon (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2. Cognition, perception, and language (pp. 309-370). Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Bloom, L., & Capatides, J. (1987). Expression of Affect and the Emergence of Language. Child Development, 58(6), 1513-1522. doi:10.2307/1130691