NDL Newsletter 2024
Check out the NDL_Newsletter_2024 to view summaries of our recent findings, notice of new studies, and ways to get involved!
The NDL at the 19th NXFX International Fragile X Conference in Orlando!
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 [...]
A Family Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome – 3rd Phase of the Project
In July 2024, the NDL was awarded the third renewal of A Family Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome (NIMH R01MH09113110). After we began the first phase of this project in 2012, our lab investigated clinical, language, and social-cognitive features that are characteristic of ASD and FMR1 conditions (fragile X syndrome (FXS) and FMR1 premutation (PM) carriers). We also [...]
Janna Guilfoyle presents exciting dissertation findings at the 2024 Frequency Following Response (FFR) Workshop in Chicago, IL
Janna Guilfoyle (6th year, clinical psychology doctoral student) presented findings from her dissertation at the 2024 Frequency Following Response (FFR) Workshop in a talk entitled "Physiological mechanisms contributing to atypical pragmatics in autism: A study of neural speech perception and speech-motor articulation." This international conference was hosted in Chicago in June 2024 by our collaborators [...]
NDL at the DevSci Graduate Student Cluster Spring 2024 Poster Symposium
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 [...]
NDL presents findings in prosodic traits of speech among individuals with autism at the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism
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. […]
NDL presents findings in conversational speech synchrony at the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism
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 [...]
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.
Congratulations Jiayin for a wonderful dissertation defense!!!
We are proud to announce that Jiayin Xing, 6th Year Communication Sciences & Disorders doctoral student, successfully defended her dissertation titled, "Multi-Modal Skill Coordination in Social Communication: An Investigation in Autism Spectrum Disorder and First-Degree Relatives." Congratulations, Jiayin!!!
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 [...]