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 [...]
We are happy and sad to share that Lauren deTorres, NDL research assistant, will be leaving Northwestern to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s M.S.Ed program for Counseling and Mental Health Services. Lauren is planning to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. Lauren has been part of our lab for the past three years [...]
Maureen Butler, NDL first-year doctoral student in clinical psychology, has just been announced a Randi J. Hagerman Summer Scholar by the National Fragile X Foundation! In her project proposal titled,” The Biological Basis of Pragmatic Language in Fragile X Premutation Carriers,” Maureen aims to understand how biological factors might influence pragmatic language skills among those with the fragile [...]
Please enjoy our holiday card and best holiday wishes from all of us at the NDL.
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The NDL is proud to celebrate World Fragile X day today. We had the pleasure of attending the International Fragile X Conference this past weekend and are looking forward to participating in NFXF X Strides Virtual Run/Walk later this month. We would like to thank all of our fragile X families for their commitment to [...]
This past weekend, members from the NDL had the pleasure of attending the 18th International Fragile X Conference in San Diego, California. […]
Northwestern Now recently interviewed Dr. Losh and Dr. Lau, the lab’s post-doctoral fellow, on their recently published study, ‘Cross-linguistic patterns of speech prosodic differences in autism: A machine learning study’. In this study, machine learning was used to identify speech patterns in children with autism that were consistent between English and Cantonese. The results [...]
Our lab member Kritika Nayar has published a new paper titled 'A constellation of eye-tracking measures reveals social attention differences in ASD and the broad autism phenotype' in the journal of Molecular Autism! Click here to access or check it out on our publications page!
