Helen Tager-Flusberg
Professor of Psychology (CAS)
Teaches KHC PH 102: Shifting Boundaries: Autism in the 21st Century
The overall aims of the research conducted in Tager-Flusberg’s center address questions about the phenotypic characteristics of the language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Her center has three ongoing lines of research: 1) investigating the early behavioral and brain developmental trajectories in infants at risk for autism (in collaboration with Children’s Hospital Boston); 2) comparing autism and specific language impairment in behavioral and fMRI studies of children and adolescents (in collaboration with MIT); 3) the Autism Center Excellence studies on minimally verbal children with autism (in collaboration with colleagues at BU, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Northeastern).