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 community through the celebration of art. We had the opportunity to share information about our autism studies and listen to [...]
Check out the NDL_Newsletter_2024 to view summaries of our recent findings, notice of new studies, and ways to get involved!
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 [...]
July is Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) Awareness Month! During this time, those affected by FXS, their families, advocates, researchers, clinicians, and many others organize world-wide events to bring public awareness to FXS. Our lab is grateful to be part of the FXS community and work with some of these incredible families and individuals. We encourage [...]
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 (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 [...]
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 [...]
