Cynthia was awarded the Institute of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) summer graduate fellowship. During this summer fellowship, she will be working on writing a NIH grant proposal to support her dissertation work.

 

Undergraduate honors student, Devon Murphy, will be attending the University of Connecticut School of Law in Fall 2022.

Lab coordinator, Juandiego Carmona, will be attending Teachers College, Columbia University, for his PhD in School Psychology starting Fall 2022.

Several members of the lab recently got accepted to present at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2022 Annual Meeting being held May 11-14 in Austin, Texas. See poster titles below!

• Autistic individuals may see emotions differently: How gradable adjectives can be used to determine emotional recognition- Devon Murphy, Lee Tecoulesco, Juandiego Carmona, Peter deVilliers, Letitia Naigles
• Differentiating among low, medium, and high “um” users with ASD and ADHD- Cynthia Boo, Nancy McIntyre, Peter Mundy, Letitia Naigles
• Identifying profiles of grammatical production in children on the autism spectrum via cluster analysis- Amanda Mankovich, Kacie Wittke, Jessica Blume, Ann Mastergeorge, Alexandra Paxton, Letitia Naigles
• Internal state language production in storybook versus personal narratives in TD children and children with ASD- Juandiego Carmona, Cynthia Boo, Letitia Naigles
• Investigating the relationship between early joint attention and later usage of verb subcategories in ASD- Kaya LeGrand, Julia Parish-Morris, Letitia Naigles