{"id":926,"date":"2017-03-31T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=926"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:24:25","slug":"helen-tager-flusberg","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/profile\/helen-tager-flusberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Tager-Flusberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overall aims of the research conducted in our center address questions about the phenotypic characteristics of the language, communication, and associated social-cognitive deficits in autism (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders. We have three ongoing lines of research: 1) investigating the early behavioral and brain developmental trajectories in infants at risk for autism (in collaboration with Children\u2019s Hospital Boston; 2) comparing autism and specific language impairment in behavioral and fMRI studies of children and adolescents (in collaboration with MIT); 3) our Autism Center Excellence studies on minimally verbal children with autism (in collaboration with colleagues at BU, MGH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Northeastern).<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/' class='button '>Center for Autism Research Excellence<\/a>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=ZaXo-NIAAAAJ&#038;hl=en&#038;oi=ao' class='button '>Google Scholar<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":12181,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/926\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}