{"id":3272,"date":"2015-09-10T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3272"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:34:58","slug":"mihaela-barokova","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/profile\/mihaela-barokova\/","title":{"rendered":"Mihaela Barokova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a PhD candidate in the Developmental Science program at BU. My research examines the language and communication of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. I am currently working on my dissertation project, which focuses on assessing the language abilities of traditionally under-represented populations in the field of autism research, namely minimally to low-verbal adolescents and non-Western, non-English speaking preschoolers with autism.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of the Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship awarded by BU, I am currently conducting a study in my home country, Bulgaria, examining the expressive language and communication of typically developing children and children with autism there.<\/p>\n<p>At CARE, I am also involved with the Eliciting Language Samples for Analysis (ELSA) project. As part of this study, I work on developing measures for assessing change in the expressive language of minimally-verbal children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13963,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3272\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}