We are looking for children to participate in research on the UW-Madison campus about how toddlers learn language. We are looking for typically developing children 18-24 months old and children with diagnosed or suspected ASD …
Autism
Brittany G. Travers, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Associations among daily living skills, motor, and sensory difficulties in children with and without autism Legend: The goal of this study was to determine how motor skills relate to daily living skills in children 6-10 …
Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS) are neurodevelopmental disorders with overlapping pragmatic language impairments. Prior work suggests pragmatic language differences may run in families. This study examined specific pragmatic difficulties (i.e., linguistic mazes and perseverations) in boys (9–18 years) with idiopathic ASD (n = 26) and FXS+ASD (n = 29), and relationships with maternal maze use.
Writing a Quality Transition IEP for students with Autism
Writing a Quality Transition IEP for students with Autism Thursday, April 29 12:00-12:45pm Registration Tim Markle, Director of the Southern Regional Center for CYSHCN will be joined by Kate Szidon from the UW Waisman Center and the …
In My Own Words
In My Own Words Thursday, April 22 12:00-12:45pm Registration Tim Markle, Director of the Southern Regional Center for CYSHCN will be joined by Scott Allen to discuss Scott’s experience in growing up with Autism.
Prevalence, Disparities and Lessons Learned from WISADDS
Prevalence, Disparities and Lessons Learned from WISADDS Thursday, April 15 12:00-12:45pm Registration Tim Markle, Director of the Southern Regional Center for CYSHCN will be joined by Maureen Durkin and Angelica Salinas from the Wisconsin Surveillance of Autism and …
What You Need to Know About the Autism SocietieS of Wisconsin
What You Need to Know About the Autism SocietieS of Wisconsin Thursday, April 8 12:00-12:45pm Registration. Tim Markle, Director of the Southern Regional Center for CYSHCN will be joined by Kirsten Cooper, Kirsten Engel, and Emily Levine …
How to Find, Train and Retain Your Own Respite Workers with RCAW
How to Find, Train and Retain Your Own Respite Workers with RCAW Thursday, April 1, 12:00-12:45pm Registration Tim Markle, Director of the Southern Regional Center for CYSHCN will be joined by Val Madsen, Training and Development Specialist …
Inside Waisman: Meet Lindsay McCary
As a third year graduate student in school psychology at the University of South Carolina, Lindsay McCary, PhD, was looking for a new advisor to help her with her dissertation. At the time, Jane Roberts, PhD, had just joined the Department of Psychology and had some data available on younger children with the genetic disorder fragile X syndrome (FXS). McCary was immediately fascinated by the new professor’s research because it integrated both behavioral and physiological data to examine an individual’s observable characteristics.
Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week
Eye-gaze methods offer numerous advantages for studying cognitive processes in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but data loss may threaten the validity and generalizability of results. Some eye-gaze systems may be more vulnerable to data loss than others, but to our knowledge, this issue has not been empirically investigated. In the current study, we asked whether automatic eye-tracking and manual gaze coding produce different rates of data loss or different results in a group of 51 toddlers with ASD.