We are excited to announce that two major publications resulting from our center’s research on #CentralAuditoryProcessingDisorder in ASD have been published and available to read now! In addition, blog posts summarizing the findings of these studies have been published and can be read here: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/neural-responses-to-names-may-underlie-language-difficulties-in-some-autistic-people/ https://www.autismspeaks.org/science-news/autism-and-auditory-processing-disorder-follow A tremendous THANK YOU to all the participants and […]
Resources for CARE Families Compiled from the ASF’s Resources and the CARE Team We hope you’ll find some of the resources below helpful as you navigate these very difficult times of establishing drastically different routines for your family. COVID-19 Resources for The ASD Community Coronavirus Resources: InterAgency Autism Coordinating Committee Coping with Coronavirus: National Institute […]
This past week, we celebrated a new chapter for our beloved TESLA Parent Workshop leader moving on to an exciting opportunity, though we will miss her very much in the lab. You’ll still be able to meet Daniela at the Saturday Parent Workshops that are one component of the TESLA study. Daniela loves animals (she […]
Some CARE lab members were at UCLA for a week last month to complete some necessary training for a new project we’re starting in the new year with collaborators at UCLA (Dr. Connie Kasari’s lab) and at Cornell (Dr. So Hyun Kim’s lab), and while they were there, Emily took center stage to teach others […]
Over the past few years, we’ve been working with Professor Angela Morgan and a scientist in her group, Dr. Amanda Brignell, both of whom are speech and language pathologists at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, part of Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Drs. Morgan and Brignell have been working with us to look for […]
Kayla Finch, one of our wonderful graduate students here at CARE, is ‘Dr. Finch’ now! Dr. Finch successfully defended her doctoral dissertation research on “Neural Indices and Looking Behaviors of Audiovisual Speech Processing in Infancy and Early Childhood” last week. Here she is with her committee: Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg, Professor, our Center Director, and Kayla’s […]
Here at CARE, both Helen, our Center Director, and Daniela, a Co-Investigator and Family Coordinator, share the same mid-March birthday! We celebrate with a cake at one of our lab meetings. This year, Helen blew out the candles (they were the sparkler kind and kept relighting!) while Daniela looked on. In the background is Trisha, […]
As part of our Center’s efforts to characterize the psychological profiles of children and adolescents with ASD who are minimally verbal, we recently published a paper describing the types and incidence of psychiatric symptoms in this population. Findings, based on parent report measures, indicated that the number of clinically significant psychiatric comorbidities emerged as the […]
A very informative article published by Spectrum News about the possibility of computers being able to distinguish individuals with autism from typically developing peers, as well as the mathematical and ethical challenges still in the way before this could become clinically useful. Our project with Charles Nelson at Boston Children’s Hospital is mentioned! Check out […]
A paper published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders this year by Boin Choi, a student in Dr. Charles Nelson’s lab at Harvard University, and in collaboration with Helen, our director, found that fine motor skills are associated with expressive language outcomes in high-risk infants. They found that high-risk infants who were later diagnosed with […]