Curriculum Vitae

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The studies at the UW Centre for Child Studies are all conducted under the supervision of Dr. Daniela O'Neill, who is a Professor in Developmental Psychology in the University of Waterloo's Psychology Department. Daniela founded the UW Centre for Child Studies in 1996. She received her undergraduate bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and her doctorate from Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit in London, England for two years before joining the developmental faculty at the University of Waterloo in 1995. The research at the centre is supported by grants awarded to Daniela from the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Premier's Research Excellence award. Daniela is the developer and author of the Language Use Inventory (LUI), a standardized parent-report measure to assess pragmatic language development in children 18 to 47 months of age.