M.A. 2005 Child Development, Tufts University

I am the Coordinator of the Infant Sibling Project, a project in collaboration with Children's Hospital Boston. My responsibilities include management of daily project activities, recruitment and screening of families, conducting cognitive, diagnostic, and language assessments, as well as, ERP experiments with infants and children. In addition, I am responsible for administering clinical interviews and questionnaires to parents.

Before joining the lab, I was in Paris, France working as an Early Intervention and Applied Behavior Analysis specialist for families of children with autism and speech language impairment in their educational and home settings. In the metro Boston area, I completed an internship at T-NEMC's Center for Children with Special Needs and was involved in daily observation and assessments of children with various developmental disabilities. There, I was also responsible for the coordination of an educational program in which the parents of a child with a chronic illness or disability trained and taught pediatric residents what it is like to care for a family living with special needs. In the past, I worked for the East Boston Family study, a longitudinal research study in which I interviewed teens and their parents. In addition, I worked for the Tufts Child and Family Webguide research project, a website dedicated to the dissemination of reliable internet information on child development for policy makers, professionals and parents.

I am very interested in early intervention strategies and the improvement of interventions and educational opportunities for children with autism and related developmental disabilities around the world. For this reason, my future plans are to pursue a degree in pediatric speech and language pathology and I would also like to contribute to global efforts addressing these issues.

contact: azuluaga@bu.edu