Author: Juandiego

Welcome Grace!

Our lab is excited to announce the arrival of a new lab coordinator, Grace Corrigan, coming all the way from California! Grace recently graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, California, where she received a B.A. in Psychology with Honors and minored in Linguistics.

Grace in her graduation cap and gown
Grace at her Scripps graduation in May 2022

Lab Party Returns!

Members of the UConn Child Language Lab were able to come together for an end-of-the semester lab party (the first once since 2020). Congratulations to our one senior graduating, Devon!

members of CLL                    members of CLL

Congrats Cynthia

UCONN Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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.

CLL is going to INSAR!

Call for Papers

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