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Penny Hauser-Cram
Retired Professor
Penny Hauser-Cram
Ed.D.
Contact
Email: penny.hauser-cram@bc.edu
Education
- Ed.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
Longitudinal investigations of children, youth, and families; children and adolescents with developmental disabilities; children and adolescents living in poverty; effects of early education
Dr. Hauser-Cram is not currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Department
Profile
Penny Hauser-Cram has spent more than 30 years researching children鈥檚 wellbeing, including longitudinal investigations of children, youth, and families鈥攑articularly those who are impoverished or have developmental disabilities. Her expertise comprises early childhood education, special education, poverty, and student motivation.
Hauser-Cram has taught at the Lynch School since 1990. She is currently an advisor for a project that investigates teacher practice and preschoolers鈥� mathematical learning at the Educational Development Center. She is also on the advisory board for Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities at Boston Children鈥檚 Hospital.
In 2012, the American Psychological Association, Division 33, honored her outstanding contributions in the field by naming her a fellow.
Among dozens of other publications, Hauser-Cram co-authored a groundbreaking longitudinal study that showed family dynamics are as important to promoting development in children with disabilities as they are to all children. She also contributed to a project that documents the benefits of school systems that provide high-quality education during the first five years of life.
She maintains editorial roles for Early Childhood Research Quarterly and has been an ad hoc reviewer since 2000 for five journals, including Developmental Psychology.
Select Publications
Books/Monographs
- Hauser-Cram, P., Nugent, J.K., Thies, K.M., & Travers, J.F. (2014).聽Development of Children and adolescents.聽聽Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Hauser-Cram, P. Warfield, M.E., Shonkoff, J. P., & Krauss, M. W. with Sayer, A. & Upshur, C.C. (2001). Children with disabilities:聽 A longitudinal study of child development and parent well-being.聽聽Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 66聽(3, Serial No. 266).
Journal Articles
- Hauser-Cram, P., & Woodman, A.C. (2016).聽 Trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in children with developmental problems in children with developmental disabilities.聽聽Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(4), 811-821.
- Mitchell, D.B., Szczerepa, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2016). Spilling over:聽 Partner parenting stress as a predictor of family cohesion in parents of adolescents with developmental disabilities.聽聽Research in Developmental Disabilities, 49-50, 258-267.聽 doi: 10.1016/ridd.2015.12.007
- Heyman, M., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2015). Negative life events predict performance on an executive function task in young adults with developmental disabilities.聽聽Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 59(8), 746-754.
- Litt, J.S., Glymour, M., Hauser-Cram, P., Hehir, T., & McCormick, M.C. (2015). The effect of the Infant Health and Development Program on special education use at school age.聽聽The Journal of Pediatrics, 166(2), 457-462.聽 doi:聽 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.09.066
- Woodman, A.C., Mawdsley, H.P., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2015). Parenting stress and child behavior problems within families of children with developmental disabilities:聽 Transactional relations across 15 years.聽聽Research in Developmental Disabilities, 36,聽264-276.聽 doi:聽 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.011
- Mitchell, D.B., Hauser-Cram, P., & Crossman, M. (2014).聽 Relationship dimensions of the 'Down syndrome advantage'.聽Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 59(6), 506-518.聽 doi:聽 10.1111/jir.12153
- Hauser-Cram, P., Woodman, A.C., & Heyman, M. (2014). Early mastery motivation as a predictor of executive function in young adults with developmental disabilities.聽聽Journal of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 119(6), 536-551.聽 doi: 10.1352/1944-7588-119.6.536聽
Book Chapters
- Hauser-Cram, P., Heyman, M., & Bottema-Beutel, K. (2017).聽 Early childhood education and care for children with disabilities.聽 In E. Votruba-Drzal & E. Dearing (Eds.),聽Handbook of early childhood development programs practices and policies:聽 Theory-based and empirically-supported strategies for promoting young children's growth in the U.S (pp. 211-236).聽Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Hauser-Cram, P., Warfield, M.E., Shonkoff, J.P., Krauss, M.W., Sayer, A., Upshur, C.C., & Heyman, M. G-A. (2014). Children with disabilities: A developmental-contextual perspective.聽 In H.B. Weiss, H. Kreider, M.E. Lopez, & C. Chapman-Nelson (Eds.),聽Preparing educators to engage families: Case studies using an ecological systems framework聽(pp. 8-11). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Hauser-Cram, P., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M. & Woodman, A. (2013).聽 Disabilities and development.聽 In R.M. Lerner, A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Vol. Eds.),聽Handbook of psychology, Vol. 6, Developmental psychology聽(2nd ed.) (pp. 547-569). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Hauser-Cram, P., & Mitchell, D.B. (2012). Early childhood education.聽 In S. Graham (Vol. Ed.),聽Handbook of educational psychology, Vol. 3. Applications to teaching and learning (pp. 3-22.聽 Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Hauser-Cram, P., Howell-Moneta, A.N., & Young, J.M. (2011).聽 Dyadic interaction between mothers and children with Down syndrome or Williams syndrome:聽 Empirical evidence and emerging agendas.聽 In J. Burack, R.M. Hodapp, G. Iarocci, & E. Zigler (Eds.),聽Oxford Handbook of intellectual disabilities and development聽(2nd ed., pp. 318-333). New York:聽 Oxford University Press.