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3C Institute CEO Presenting at White House Education Game Workshop

White House Event

Dr. Melissa DeRosier was invited to participate in an Education Game Workshop, hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Education, on Thursday, September 4th.

The event will bring together Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grantees, education game developers, and agency experts to discuss the state of education games and brainstorm solutions to challenges faced by individual developers and small businesses.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is interested in exploring how games can be used as a valuable tool for addressing societal challenges.

3C Institute’s Action-Packed Week in DC

While in Washington, Dr. DeRosier and 3C Institute researcher Dr. Deb Childress will also be participating in several other events this week as part of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES)Principal Investigator Meeting:

  • Dr. DeRosier will be speaking in a roundtable panel discussion, “From R&D of Ed Tech to the Real World,” in which developers will discuss using data to refine their education technology products and how developers prepare and present data to inform instructional practice.
  • Dr. DeRosier and Dr. Childress will be participating in the IES Technology Expo, where IES staff and funded researchers can “try out” prototypes of twelve IES SBIR funded technology products/games and meet the developers. Dr. DeRosier and Dr. Childress will be showcasing several of our new social-emotional learning games: Zoo U, Adventures aboard the S.S.GRIN, and PREP (Postsecondary Resilience Education Program).
  • Dr. DeRosier and Dr. Childress will be participating in the Ed Games Expo, hosted by the Entertainment Software Association and 1776. The event will showcase games for learning that have been supported by programs such as IES, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, and Smithsonian. During the event, the 100+ attendees will be able to “try out” prototypes of games for learning and meet the developers. Dr. DeRosier and Dr. Childress will showcase three social-emotional learning games: Zoo U, Adventures aboard the S.S.GRIN, and Stories in Motion.

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    DEB CHILDRESS, PHD

    Chief of Research and Learning Content

    BIOGRAPHY

    Dr. Childress obtained her PhD in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to 3C Institute, she served as a research associate and a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on a longitudinal imaging study aimed at identifying the early markers of autism through behavioral and imaging methodologies. She has 19 years of autism research experience, during which she has examined the behavioral, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals with autism and their family members. Dr. Childress also has experience developing behavioral and parent report measurement tools, coordinating multi-site research studies, and collecting data from children and families. She has taught courses and seminars in general child development, autism, and cognitive development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Expertise

    • autism
    • early development
    • behavioral measurement
    • integrating behavioral and biological measurement

    Education

    • Postdoctoral fellowship, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (Institutional NRSA-NICHD), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • PhD, developmental psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • BS, psychology (minor in sociology), University of Iowa

    Selected Publications

    • Elison, J. T., Wolff, J. J., Heimer, D. C., Paterson, S. J., Gu, H., Hazlett, H. C., Styner, M, Gerig, G., & Piven, J. (in press). Frontolimbic neural circuitry at 6 months predicts individual differences in joint attention at 9 months. Developmental Science.
    • Wassink, T. H., Vieland, V. J., Sheffield, V. C., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., Childress, D. & Piven, J. (2008). Posterior probability of linkage analysis of autism dataset identifies linkage to chromosome 16. Psychiatric Genetics,18(2),85-91.
    • Losh, M., Childress, D., Lam K. & Piven, J. (2008). Defining key features of the broad autism phenotype: A comparison across parents of multiple- and single-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 147B(4):424-33.
    • Wassink, T. H., Piven, J., Vieland, V. J., Jenkins, L., Frantz R., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., … Sheffield, V.C. (2005). Evaluation of the chromosome 2q37.3 gene CENTG2 as an autism susceptibility gene. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 136, 36-44.
    • Barrett, S., Beck, J., Bernier, R., Bisson, E., Braun, T., Casavant, T., Childress, D., … Vieland, V. (1999). An autosomal genomic screen for autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 88, 609-615. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991215)88:63.0.CO;2-L
    • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Landa, R., Santangelo, S., Jacobi, D. & Childress, D. (1997). Personality and language characteristics in parents from multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 74, 398-411.
    • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Jacobi, D., Childress, D. & Arndt, S. (1997). Broader autism phenotype: Evidence from a family history study of multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 185-190.