Laura Kasparian was a research assistant on the Infant Sibling Project, from 2008-2010. As a research assistant for ISP, her main responsibilities included administering and scoring a variety of behavioral and cognitive assessments during the lab visits, organizing and coding the home diary portion, and working with the Visual Paired Comparison data.

As an undergraduate at Yale, she majored in Cognitive Science, with a focus on developmental disorders. She first became interested in autism during a seminar course for which she interned at the Yale Child Study Center in a social skills workshop for boys on the autism spectrum. Eventually, Laura went on to write her senior paper on autism and fear processing. After graduation, she taught English for a year in southwestern France and then served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member in Portland, OR, before deciding to pursue research. Laura recently left us to pursue her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology at Boston University where she hopes to continue to work with infants and children with communication and language delays.