Six members of the Child Language Lab had the privilege of attending the 2024 Meeting on Language in Autism, held at Duke University from March 14-16. We also met up with former lab member Dr. Lee Tecoulesco, now doing his postdoc at Boys Town Research Hospital.
In the thick of her dissertation data collection and writing, our fifth-year graduate student Cynthia Boo presented a poster based on findings from her ongoing collaboration with the UC Davis MIND Institute: specifically, group differences in discourse marker production among children with ASD, children with ADHD, and children with co-occurring ASD and ADHD. Furthermore, our 3rd-year graduate student, Kaya LeGrand, was invited to give a talk on some of the research she did for her masters thesis: an examination of longitudinal verb acquisition trajectories from LSEL Visits 1-6.
Thanks in part to travel grants from the UConn Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), we were able to bring undergraduates Yasmin Andalib (’24) and Kylie Robinshaw (’24), both of whom presented posters.
Yasmin’s honors thesis analyzes the narrative macrostructure of our teen and young adult participants’ personal narratives and their storytelling from the book Tuesday by David Wiesner.
Kylie’s independent project utilizes data from the UC Davis MIND Institute and examines sex differences in the linguistic markers produced by three-year-old children on the autism spectrum.
Lab coordinator Grace Corrigan presented two posters based on the projects she has been working on over the last year: close phonological transcription of LSEL participants at Visit 2, and examination of child-to-caregiver linguistic alignment at Visit 9.
