Dr Caylee Jayde Cook

PhD | Researcher in early childhood development and in low- and middle-income country settings. Love being on a mountain or in the ocean. Proudly South African.

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

We replicated the finding that cognition and executive function mediates the relationship between SES (at the level of the ECD centre) and 4-year-olds emergent numeracy and mathematics. This Nationally representative dataset is available here: https://t.co/qcoKvay9At

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

In case you missed my poster on EF & numeracy in South Africa (because of all the exciting sessions happening at the same time at @SRCDtweets), here it is ⬇️ #SRCD2025

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

Do any of my research / academic colleagues know of an institution that lets you pay a subscription to access the online libraries (journals) without being staff or student? #paywalls

[Alice Tovey // alicetovey.bsky.social @AliceTovey]

May I offer US friends an Australian proverb in these trying times:

Yeah nah shit's pretty fucked ay

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

@AbiFiske Stunning!!! Congrats Abi!

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

📢Attention executive function enthusiasts!

[Dr. Jelena Obradovic @dr_jobradovic]

✨New Global Executive Function Initiative's (GEFI) recommended practices for selection, adaptation, and administration of EF performance-based tasks and for processing, evaluating, reporting, and interpreting data that these tasks yield. Download here: https://t.co/FzvoDviRtc

[taylor garron @taylorgarron]

me trying to avoid a bee

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

Thanks to the dream team @DrCathD ,@DrSJHoward, @GaiaScerif, @rebeccammerkley, Nosibusiso Tshetu, Mbulelo Mshudulu, and Hleliwe Makaula! And thank you to the Journal of Cognition for such a positive and timely publication process.

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

📢Read our latest #openaccess article with @JCgntn: https://t.co/EX6jxEcyY0 Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children!

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

We found that a diversity of caregivers (i.e. having more than 1 caregiver interacting with the child) predicted stronger EF skills. This highlights the need to be critical of using Western-derived parenting (nuclear) as the norm for both measurement and interventions.

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

@EllieBraithwai2 @EmilyDevNeuro @STRscience @BonamyOliver Huge congratulations Ellie!!!!!

[FNB ECD 🇿🇦 @EcdFnb]

The more a toy does, the less a child imagines > truth 💛

Open ended play.
Playing without a goal.
Outdoor play.

We love learning through play!

#FNBECD #FNBCares

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

@creyguerr @Eric_Dearing @jcuartas2 Congratulations!!! 👏👏👏

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

Officially Mrs Bennett, but still Dr Cook

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

Yoh but we as South Africans have a live hate relationship with our country 😓

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

Our home has been broken into 3 times in 2 weeks, last night our dog woke us up and we saw a guy hanging off our balcony outside our bedroom sliding door. I am so angry, but at the same time feel a sense of guilt about being angry at people who are stealing to make ends meet. 🇿🇦

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

We also decided to do the right thing and report the crime to the police to add to the statistics accurately. My partner has been at the police station for 5 hours now, trying to report 1 crime…

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

@KarlaHolmboe @AbiFiske @GaiaScerif @DrSWijeakumar Congratulations @AbiFiske what an incredible achievement, so excited to see where your next steps take you! And congrats to the amazing supervisors @GaiaScerif and @KarlaHolmboe