NDL presents findings on sex differences in social language use for individuals with ASD at the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism

Emily Landau, 5th year clinical psychology doctoral candidate, presented findings from her dissertation at the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism. Her poster, “A Multi-Method Study of Pragmatic Language in Autistic Females," explored sex differences in social language use in storytelling and conversations.

2024-03-27T16:25:05-05:00Events, News, Recent Lab News|

Check us out in NU Magazine!!!

Our lab has recently published important findings showing how machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), may be used to capture clinically significant features of speech impacted in autism across different cultures and languages. This work was recently featured in Northwestern University Magazine, alongside other important findings from Northwestern, to discuss the potential of AI [...]

2024-01-16T10:46:38-06:00News, Recent Lab News|

Family Genetic Study of Autism – 3rd Phase of the Project

We have received new NIH funding to continue our lab’s research focused on identifying specific language traits linked to brain and gene function involved in autism. This important award represents the 3rd cycle of continuous NIH funding for this project, which began in 2010. Many of our families may recall participating in those earlier stages of this work, which [...]

2023-12-14T12:06:27-06:00News, Recent Lab News|

New Publication: A longitudinal investigation of pragmatic language across contexts in autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions

Check out our recently published paper in Frontiers! This paper was published in collaboration with former NDL students, Dr. Michelle Lee and Dr. Nell Maltman, and colleagues, Dr. Gary Martin, Dr. Klinton Bicknell, and Dr. Adam Goodkind. This work characterizes potentially unique pragmatic profiles across different neurodevelopmental disabilities, and across contexts that varied in degree of [...]

2023-10-22T22:53:22-05:00News, Recent Lab News|

Recognizing National Fragile X Awareness Month

July 1st marked the beginning of National Fragile X Awareness Month, and July 22 is World Fragile X Day.  The National Fragile X Foundation reports that the prevalence of FXS in males is approximately 1 in 7,000 and in females 1 in 11,000, making it a leading inherited cause of intellectual disability. We at the NDL [...]

2023-07-14T15:05:12-05:00Events, News|

INSAR 2023 – spotlight on graduate student presentations

Emily Landau (bottom left), fourth-year clinical psychology graduate student, presented her research at INSAR this year, and her study explored narrative (i.e. storytelling) ability, which is an important skill for social communication. Her project characterized narrative ability in autistic individuals and their first-degree relatives across contexts (high versus low structure) and different language (English and [...]

2023-07-14T14:55:23-05:00Events, News, Recent Lab News|
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