ADDRESS

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Psychology
415 Campbell Hall
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
Phone: (205) 934-0657
Fax: (205) 975-6330
E-Mail: LHUFFMAN@UAB.EDU
Website: WWW.UAB.EDU/COGDEV

EDUCATION

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology August, 1998
Dissertation: "Goal sketches, social rules, and strategy development"
Dissertation Advisor: Norman Bray, Ph.D.

M.A., Developmental Psychology August, 1995
Thesis: "Task factors and individual differences in strategy use of children"
Thesis Advisor: Norman Bray, Ph.D.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
B.A., Psychology May, 1992

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Outstanding Developmental Psychology Graduate Student May, 1997
UAB Graduate School and the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Third Place, Graduate Student Research Day May, 1996
UAB Graduate School and Sigma Xi,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

NIMH National Research Service Award September, 1995
"Strategy Competencies of Children with Mental Retardation"
Fellowship number: 1 F31 MH11251-01.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Psychological Society Student Affiliate - 1993 to Present
Cognitive Science Society - 1996 to Present
Psi Chi - 1992 to Present
Society for Research in Child Development - 1992 to Present

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL September, 1998 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Psychology and Civitan International Research Center

One year postdoctoral research fellowship working with Norman Bray, Ph.D. on two grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development investigating the development of memory skills in children with and without mental retardation and developing neural network models of strategy adoption for children with and without mental retardation. Responsible for writing drafts of new articles for publication of our research on memory strategies in children with and without mental retardation and for revisions in articles which have been submitted but not yet accepted for publication. Also, involved in conceptualization and design of new research projects. Aid in the contacting of school personnel for subject recruitment. Develop procedures for data collection and data entry. In charge of data analysis for lab. Coordinate daily research activities in the lab and supervise undergraduate research assistants.

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL September, 1992 - 1998
Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Psychology and Civitan International Research Center

Worked with Norman Bray, Ph.D. as a graduate assistant on grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development that investigated the development of memory skills in children with and without mental retardation. Involved in conceptualization and design of new research projects. Developed procedures and stimuli. Coordinated daily research activities in the lab and supervised undergraduate research assistants and honor students. Involved in data analysis, writing of research articles and grant renewals.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN January 1991- May 1992
Research Assistant, Department of Psychological Sciences

Worked with Donald R. Ottinger, Ph.D. as a research assistant on a project designed to assess the relationship between young children's performance on a vigilance task and their classroom behavior. Responsibilities included coding behavior in vivo, coding videotapes, administering vigilance task, and data analysis.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN December 1990 - May 1992
Research Assistant, Department of Psychological Sciences
Worked with Barbara Younger, Ph.D. as a research assistant on projects involving infant categorization. Responsible for the use of an observational behavior code, administering various correlated attributes tasks to infants and toddlers, and data analysis.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN September 1990- May 1992
Research Assistant, Department of Psychological Sciences
Collaborated with Robert D. Melara, Ph.D. as a research assistant in his perception laboratory. Involved in every phase of research design and implementation, including subject recruitment, stimulus construction, data collection, data entry, and data analysis. Presented research findings and theoretical issues to both faculty and students.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Department of Psychology
Instructor (Full Responsibility)

Psychology 101: Introduction to Psychology Winter, 1998
Psychology 213: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Child Development Fall,1996
Psychology 212: Developmental Psychology Spring, 1995
Psychology 212: Developmental Psychology Summer, 1994

Co-Instructor (with fellow graduate student)
Psychology 363: Cognitive Psychology Winter, 1997
Psychology 212: Developmental Psychology Spring, 1997

Teaching Assistant (For Faculty Member)
Psychology 315: Methods in Psychological Research Summer, 1996

PUBLICATIONS

Biasini, F., Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (in press). Mental retardation: A symptom and a syndrome. S. Netherton, D. Holmes, & C. E. Walker (Eds.), Comprehensive Textbook of Child and Adolescent Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bray, N, W., Fletcher, K. L. & Huffman, L. F. (submitted). Developmental and intellectual differences in relations between self-report and strategy use. Developmental Psychology.

Bray, N. W., Reilly, K. D., Huffman, L. F., Grupe, L. A., Villa, M. F., & Fletcher, K. L.. (in press). Cognitive competencies in children with mental retardation. In W. Bechtel & G. Graham (Eds.), The Companion to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Bray, N. W., Huffman, L. F., & Grupe, L. A. (1998). Un cadre conceptuel pour l'etude des competences et des dificiences mnesiques chez l'enfant retarde mental. In F. B. Buchel, Y. Coubios, J. L. Paour, & U. Schamhorst (Eds.), Deficience mentale: Attention, memorie, apprentissage. Lucerne/Lausanne: Edition SPC/SZH.

Bray, N. W., Reilly, K. D., Fletcher, K. L, Huffman, L. F., Grupe, L. A., Villa, M. F., & Anumolu, V. (1998). Memory competencies and deficiencies: A conceptual framework and the potential of connectionist models. In S. Soraci & W. McIlvane (Eds.), Perspectives on Fundamental Processes in Intellectual Functioning. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

Fletcher, K. L., Huffman, L. F., Bray, N. W, & Grupe, L. A. (1998). The use of the microgenetic method with children with disabilities: Discovering competence. Early Education and Development, 9, 357-373.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVEW/REVISION

Fletcher, K. L., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (under revision). Verbal cues not physical cues increase external strategy use in college students. Memory and Cognition.

PRESENTATIONS

Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (March, 1998). Goal sketches and external memory strategies. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL.

Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (August, 1997). The influence of working memory on strategy use. Poster presented at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palo Alto, CA.

Huffman, L. F., Conerly, R. C., Brezausek, C. V., Ramey, C. T., & Ramey, S. L. (March, 1994). Risk factors for delayed development within a high risk sample. Paper presented at Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinburg, TN.

Huffman, L. F., Fletcher, K. F., & Bray, N. W. (July, 1994). Verbal Cues Increase External Strategy Use in Adults. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, Washington D. C.

Huffman, L. F., Fletcher, K. L., Bray, N. W., Barnes, L., Malmberg, J., Shunnarah, T, & Grupe, L. A. (March, 1998). Developmental and intellectual differences in self-report and strategy use. Paper presented at the Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Charleston, SC.

Huffman, L. F., Grupe, L. A., & Bray, N. W. (April, 1997). Task Factors and Individual Differences in Working Memory Influence Strategy Use. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D. C.

Huffman, L. F., Grupe, L. A., & Bray, N. W. (June, 1996). Goal sketches may underlie knowledge and use of external memory strategies. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.

Huffman, L. F., Fletcher, K. F., & Bray, N. W. (July, 1996). Verbal Cues Increase External Strategy Use in Adults. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, La Jolla, CA.

Huffman, L. F., Ward, J. L., & Hawk, T, M. (March, 1995). Developmental differences in external strategies are influenced by task factors and verbal strategies are not. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Huffman, L. F., Ward, J. L., Hawk, T. M., Grupe, L. A., & Bray, N. W. (March, 1995). Addition strategies in children with and without mental retardation. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Bray, N. W., Huffman, L. F., Hawk. T. M., & Ward, J. L. (March, 1994). A microgenetic study of addition strategies in young children with and without mental retardation. Paper presented at Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinburg, TN.

Bray, N. W., Fletcher, K. L., Huffman, L. F., Hawk. T. M., & Ward, J. L. (April, 1994). Developmental differences in the use of models and verbal prompts in support of external strategies. Poster presented at Conference on Human Development, Pittsburgh, PA.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (April, 1997). How do kindergartners solve addition problems and are they accurate? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (June, 1996). Manipulatives influence accuracy but not strategy use in kindergartners solving of addition problems. Poster presented at the Poster presented at American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (April, 1996). Addition strategies in children. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Birmingham, AL.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., Bray, N. W., Ward, J., & Hawk, T. (February, 1995). Evolution of addition strategies in children with and without mental retardation. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Theory and Research in Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinburg, TN.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., Shunnarah, T., Barnes, L., Malmberg, J., & Bray, N. W. (March, 1998). Evolution of addition strategies in children with and without mental retardation. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Theory and Research in Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, Charleston, SC.

Grupe, L. A., Huffman, L. F., Ramey, S., & Ramey, C. (March, 1996). How parents perceive the transition to public school of former Head Start children with and without disabilities. Poster presented at Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinburg, TN.

Grupe, L. A., Malmberg, J., Shunnarah, T., Barnes, L., Huffman, L. F., & Bray, N. W. (March, 1998). An investigation of practice effects in a simple addition task: Manipulatives and strategy use. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL.

REFERENCES

Carl McFarland, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
415 Campbell Hall
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
Phone: (205) 934-3850
E-mail: CMCFARLA@UAB.EDU

Craig Ramey, Ph.D. & Sharon Landesman Ramey, Ph.D.
Co-Directors, Civitan International Research Center
Professors of Psychology
Civitan International Research Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
1719 Sixth Avenue South
CIRC, Room 137
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0021
Phone: (205) 934-8900
E-mail: CRAMEY@CIVMAIL.CIRC.UAB.EDU

E-mail: SRAMEY@CIVMAIL.CIRC.UAB.EDU

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Fred Biasini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Civitan International Research Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
1720 Seventh Avenue South
SC, Room 313
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0017
Phone: (205) 934-9465
E-mail: FBIASINI@CIVMAIL.CIRC.UAB.EDU

Amanda Walley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
415 Campbell Hall
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
Phone: (205) 934-3850
E-mail: AWALLEY@UAB.EDU