Dr. Lisa Edelson recently received her Ph.D. in Psychology at Boston University, under the supervision of Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg. As her background was in linguistics, she was involved with several of the language-related projects in the lab. Lisa supervised a study using natural language samples to explore pragmatic language development in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. She was also involved with projects exploring prosody and expressiveness in narratives by individuals with autism and Williams syndrome.

Her doctoral dissertation focused on using eye-tracking technology to assess language processing in school-age children with and without ASD. More specifically, the cues that children use to interpret ambiguous pronouns.