{"id":23490,"date":"2013-05-09T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23490"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:07:02","slug":"gael-orsmond","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/gael-orsmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Gael Orsmond, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Scholarly, Research, and\/or Practice Interests<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dr. Orsmond is a developmental and clinical psychologist who conducts research to understand how the family, social, community, and school contexts are crucial to the development and well-being of adolescents and adults on the autism spectrum. Her main areas of research are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ocial and community participation of individuals on the autism spectrum<\/span><\/li>\n<li>P<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">romoting positive transition to adulthood for individuals on the autism spectrum<\/span><\/li>\n<li>S<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ibling and family relationships in the context of developmental disabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent work has focused on developing community-based programs that promote transition and future planning, and autonomy in adulthood \u00a0in autistic adults and adults with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Orsmond\u2019s recent research has been funded by the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and Boston University\u2019s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Orsmond is a Fellow of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.division33.org\/\">Division 33<\/a> (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities\/Autism Spectrum Disorder) of the American Psychological Association and is a past president of the Division.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p><span>Lists of published works:<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=ULHlOJkAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Google Scholar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lists of published works:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4133-7326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":7252,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86233,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23490\/revisions\/86233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}