We had an incredible time at our 2024 Lab Retreat! It was a great opportunity to come together, share insights on our exciting new projects, and foster collaboration. We wrapped up the day with some fun games, celebrating the arrival of Fall and the start of a promising academic year!
The NDL was honored to attend the 2024 Chicago ArtTism event at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. This event is dedicated to transforming the narrative around autism within the black & brown communities through the celebration of art. We had the opportunity to share information about our autism studies and listen to [...]
The NDL had so much fun in Orlando, Florida at the 19th NXFX International Fragile X Conference! Dr. Joe Lau and clinical psychology graduate students, Mitra Kumareswaran (4th year), Sarah Ethridge (3rd year), and Maureen Butler (2nd year) presented findings across our studies investigating speech and language traits in Fragile X [...]
The Northwestern Institute of Developmental Sciences (DevSci) fosters interdisciplinary research collaborations as part of their “Healthier, Earlier” mission to promote strong foundations in wellbeing and learning for all children as early as possible in order to improve child and community-level outcomes. The NDL is proud to support DevSci's mission, and many of our graduate students [...]
Jiayin Xing, Mitra Kumareswaran, and Sarah Ethridge (from left to right) presented findings from their work investigating prosodic traits of speech among individuals with autism at the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism at Duke University. […]
At the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA), Janna Guilfoyle (left, 6th year clinical psychology doctoral student) presented a poster titled, “Physiological mechanisms contributing to atypical pragmatics in autism: A study of neural speech perception and speech-motor articulation,” in which she demonstrates that both the fidelity of speech sound encoding and speech-motor articulatory skills [...]
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.
Dr. Joe Lau presented exciting findings from a collaborative project with Dr. Rob Voigt from NU Linguistics titled, Using AI Large Language Models to Detect Pragmatic Language Markers of Autism during the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) at Duke University.
We had fun during our lab retreat as we developed new research ideas and projects. We are so excited for our upcoming studies and collaborations!
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 [...]
