Month: April 2024

CLL Has Terrific Time at Langfest 2024!

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April 24 saw another meeting of the annual UConn Language Fest, or “Langfest,” taking place in Konover Auditorium and the Bousfield Psychology atrium, with cross-disciplinary researchers convening to discuss what we all love: language. This year, Langfest (organized in part by CLL’s Kaya LeGrand) featured a graduate student symposium, a data blitz that included CLL’s Kylie Robinshaw & Grace Corrigan, and a poster session (pictures below). There was also the ever-lauded Langfest sundae bar…

Doctoral candidate Cynthia Boo presents her poster, “Variation in autism and ADHD symptomatology reveals differential use of discourse markers.”
Kylie Robinshaw (’24) presents her poster, “Gender differences in linguistic measures among three-year-olds with ASD.”
Yasmin Andalib (honors ’24) presents her poster, “Narrative macrostructure: A comparison between autistic and typically developing adolescents.”
Lab coordinator Grace Corrigan presents her poster, “Relationships between alignment and cooperative task performance in autistic and neurotypical teenager-caregiver dyads.”

CLL Projects Presented at Spring Frontiers 2024

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The 27th annual spring Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Exhibition was held on April 12-13, and CLL seniors Yasmin Andalib and Kylie Robinshaw had the chance to present their respective research projects. Thanks to grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research, both Yasmin and Kylie were able to travel to Durham, NC to present their research at the Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA). Now, at Frontiers, the UConn community got to learn about Yasmin and Kylie’s projects too!

Yasmin presents her honors thesis research, “Narrative macrostructure: A comparison between autistic and typically developing adolescents.”
Kylie presents her independent research project, “Gender differences in linguistic measures among three-year-olds with ASD.”

Letty in Brazil!

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In the week following MoLA, Letty spent time in São Paulo and Florianópolis, Brazil, to scout out a potential venue for the 2027 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). While there, she gave talks at the University of São Paulo and the Universidade Federale de Santa Catarina (Federal University of Santa Catarina), explored the beautiful scenery in both cities, and enjoyed delicious Brazilian food. Thank you to the locals who made her feel so welcome in Brazil!

 

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