Baby Lab
About the Lab
We are a child development research program at Children’s Mercy and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
We study early language and social-emotional development, because they are vitally important for promoting positive long-term outcomes for children. Our goal is to develop practices that families can use to promote children’s language and social outcomes.
Leader
Dr. Brenda Salley is a Clinical Psychologist at Children’s Mercy and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center and University of Kansas City-Missouri. She is the director of the Baby Lab Children’s Mercy and KUMC.
Dr. Salley’s clinical expertise centers on the evaluation of very young children for developmental and social-emotional concerns, including autism spectrum disorder and infant/early childhood mental health concerns.
- Research Areas
- Labs and Research Teams
- ACCESS Behavioral Health Lab
- Baby Health and Behavior Lab
- Baby Lab
- Bactrim Lung Failure Team
- Behavioral Pain Innovations Lab
- Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition
- Community Engaged Research Team
- Developmental and Behavioral Health Research Group
- Fridley Lab
- Laboratory of Immunogenomics
- Milkovich Lab
- Nadler Lab
- Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Team/Yadav Lab
- Ramsey Lab
- Sullivant Lab
- Varberg Lab
- Younger Lab
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas School of Medicine