Developing Narrative Structure

Allyssa McCabe, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She got her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Virginia in 1980 and has published over a hundred scholarly pieces. She has written scholarly books and articles on children’s narrative development and a trade book for parents called Language Games to Play with your Child. She has conducted interventions with both parents and teachers to improve children’s ability to narrate. She specializes in cultural, as well as developmental, differences in personal narration, working with scholars from many backgrounds to enable the appreciation of many different traditions.

Carole Peterson, was raised in Seattle, Washington, and her educational degrees are from the Universities of Washington (B.Sc.-Hons in Psychology) and Minnesota (Ph.D in Child Psychology). In 1977 she joined the Psychology Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, where she still is. Because of the impact of her research, she has been appointed a University Research Professor by her university as well as elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a prestigious national organization acknowledging academic excellence. Her research has primarily concerned the three areas of narrative skill development, children as eyewitnesses, and childhood amnesia.