Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Our Goals: We hope you will be a part of the first study for young adults with Down syndrome to combine: Who can help? Young adults with Down syndrome who are: How much time will I need to be there? We would like you and your Caregiver to come for 2-3 days so we will …
Intelligibility as a function of speaking rate and age in different utterance lengths
Waisman Center clinicians, Madeline Barger and Megan Farley, were featured on Wisconsin Public Radio's The Morning Show on "Life as Neurodivergent People in Wisconsin".
Brooke Sasia, who is a graduate student in Waisman investigator James Li’s lab, recently received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award.
Trying something new is a risk every child undertakes as they explore and learn about the world. While risk can be costly, it can also pay off in rewards or knowledge.
When individuals make a movement that produces an unexpected outcome, they learn from the resulting error.
Neonatal hypoxia ischemia (HI) related brain injury is one of the major causes of life-long neurological morbidities that result in learning and memory impairments.
How does cognitive inhibition influence speaking? The Stroop effect is a classic demonstration of the interference between reading and color naming.
Our study aims to learn more about how language samples collected in the home can be used to measure the language development of children with Down syndrome.
ADHD polygenic scores (PGSs) have been previously shown to predict ADHD outcomes in several studies. However, ADHD PGSs are typically correlated with ADHD but not necessarily reflective of causal mechanisms.
