Sarah Surrain, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of early childhood education. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the Spencer Foundation. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Early Childhood Research Quarterly Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; Journal of Child Language and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Before coming to UNLV, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.  She previously served as a literacy coach in bilingual classrooms and a Spanish teacher in her hometown of Chicago.

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Research Expertise

•  Acquisition and development of  foundational language and literacy skills of emergent bilingual children through responsive interactions with caregivers
• Strengths-based interventions for emergent bilinguals with language difficulties

Education

Ph.D. in Human Development, Learning & Teaching, Harvard University

Ed.M., Language and Literacy, Harvard University

B.A., Theatre Arts, Kalamazoo College