{"id":3013,"date":"2018-07-27T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:50:17","slug":"elizabeth-crais-phd-featured-as-expert-in-baby-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/2018\/07\/elizabeth-crais-phd-featured-as-expert-in-baby-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Crais, PhD, Featured as Expert in Baby Sign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/directory\/elizabeth-crais-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Crais<\/a>, PhD, speech-language pathologist and professor and coordinator of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/prospective-students\/phd-in-speech-and-hearing-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhD program<\/a>, spoke recently to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/how-baby-sign-language-can-calm-meltdowns-before-your-infants-first-word_2585380.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/baby-sign-language-can-calm-infant-meltdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healthline<\/a>\u00a0about teaching babies sign language. Her research shows that facilitating a child&#8217;s communication will help their language and communication skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Crais, PhD, speech-language pathologist and professor and coordinator of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences PhD program, spoke recently to The Epoch Times and to Healthline\u00a0about teaching babies sign language. Her research shows that facilitating a child&#8217;s communication will help their language and communication skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/crais-2.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/crais-2.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/crais-2.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/crais-2.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/600\/2018\/07\/crais-2-150x210.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Elizabeth Crais","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/sphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}