Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff holds the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of Education at the University of Delaware and is also a member of the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics and Cognitive Science.{{cite web|url=http://www.education.udel.edu/robertagolinkoff/faculty-bio/roberta-michnick-golinkoff-biography/|title=Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Biography -|website=www.education.udel.edu}}{{cite web |url=http://www.psych.udel.edu/people/list/category/affiliated-faculty/ |title=Department of Psychology | People |access-date=2013-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829021341/http://www.psych.udel.edu/people/list/category/affiliated-faculty/ |archive-date=2013-08-29 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ling.udel.edu/people/faculty |title=Faculty | Linguistics & Cognitive Science |access-date=2013-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609120047/http://www.ling.udel.edu/people/faculty |archive-date=2013-06-09 |url-status=dead }}

An author of 14 books and over 150 professional articles on early childhood and infant development, she founded and directs the Child's Play, Learning, and Development Laboratory (formerly called The Infant Language Project), which investigates how young children learn their native language.{{cite web|url=http://www.udel.edu/ILP|title=Home - Child's Play Learning & Development Lab|website=Child's Play Learning & Development Lab}} Among her projects is the creation (with Jill de Villiers, Aquiles Iglesias, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Mary Wilson) of a computerized language assessment for preschoolers called the QUILS: Quick Interactive Language Screener.

Her research has been supported by funding from national agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Institute of Education Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://udel.edu/~roberta/index.html|title=Roberta Golinkoff –|website=udel.edu}} Golinkoff served as an Associate Editor of Child Development, one of the premier research journals in her field, and serves on many advisory boards for organizations devoted to children's well-being and education.{{cite journal|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8624/homepage/EditorialBoard.html|title=Child Development |doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8624|url-access=subscription}} Golinkoff is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/fellows.cfm/|title=Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows|website=psychologicalscience.org|accessdate=October 5, 2022}}

Golinkoff also consults with toy companies, governmental bodies, children's museums and libraries, and other organizations. In addition, she is one of the founders of the Ultimate Block Party movement, an event that took place in Central Park to celebrate playful learning.{{cite web |url=http://dowser.org/roberta-golinkoff-on-play-and-learning-at-the-ultimate-block-party/ |title=Roberta Golinkoff on play and learning at the Ultimate Block Party | Dowser |access-date=2013-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007093351/http://dowser.org/roberta-golinkoff-on-play-and-learning-at-the-ultimate-block-party/ |archive-date=2013-10-07 |url-status=dead }} It attracted over 50,000 people.{{cite web |url=http://www.udel.edu/ocm/development/kathyw/v1no3/news_block_party.html |title=More than 50,000 turn out for Ultimate Block Party in NYC |website=www.udel.edu |access-date=3 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130830204214/http://www.udel.edu/ocm/development/kathyw/v1no3/news_block_party.html |archive-date=30 August 2013 |url-status=dead}} Other Ultimate Block Parties were held in Toronto, Canada, and Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite web|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-02/news/bs-md-art-of-play-20111002_1_anana-kambon-rash-field-ultimate-block-party|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130830204227/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-02/news/bs-md-art-of-play-20111002_1_anana-kambon-rash-field-ultimate-block-party|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 30, 2013|title=Baltimore's first Ultimate Block Party at Rash Field draws thousands}} Golinkoff does development work for childhood education company MindChamps.{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/mindchamps-curriculum-brings-on-the-smiles/|title=MindChamps' curriculum brings on the Smiles|author=Oh Poh Tin, Soh Qi Min and Winnie Tan Chee Ying|date=September 19, 2018|newspaper=The Straits Times}}