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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s in Speech-Language Pathology at Boston University where she hopes to continue to work with infants and children with communication and language delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}