On Saturday, October 4th, the NDL was honored to participate in the Laremont School Resource Fair and Fall Festival. This Halloween-themed event brought together families and community members from the greater Chicago area to learn about local resources supporting children[...]

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We are so grateful to get to work with you all, and excited to share with you an update on the lab and our recent research findings in our most recent newsletter.

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.

The NDL was honored to attend the 2024 Chicago ArtTism event at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.

 Check out the NDL_Newsletter_2024 to view summaries of our recent findings, notice of new studies, and ways to get involved!

The NDL team shared research and connected with families at the 19th International Fragile X Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Our lab is grateful to be part of the FXS community and work with some of these incredible families and individuals.

In July 2024, the NDL was awarded the third renewal of A Family Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome (NIMH R01MH09113110).

Janna shared her exciting dissertation findings on speech processing in autism at the Frequency Following Response (FFR) Workshop in Chicago in June.

Our students helped to organize the DevSci Graduate Student Cluster Spring 2024 Poster Symposium, and they also presented their own work to researchers across Northwestern.

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. […]