Yarui Chen, M.Ed.

Yarui Chen is a first-year Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Learning and Cognition, under the mentorship of Dr. Phillips. Her research centers on early childhood language development, particularly in children with communicative disorders, and examines the roles parents and teachers play in this process. Prior to her Ph.D., Yarui earned a master’s degree in TESOL and Applied Linguistics from Boston University, where she contributed to the Social Learning Lab and the Boston University Conference on Language Development.