Kathryn Prescott

Postdoctoral fellow

Psychological Sciences

Dr. Kathryn Prescott’s research investigates how individual child characteristics and cognitive mechanisms interact with specific features of the learning environment giving rise to structural language development in autistic children. The goal of this research is to better understand the heterogeneity in language ability across the spectrum and to provide personalized recommendations for speech-language therapy and environmental accommodations based on each child’s unique profile of strengths and needs. Dr. Prescott is a certified speech-language pathologist with clinical experience in schools, early intervention, and outpatient pediatric clinical settings. She completed her Ph.D. in 2024 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Ellis Weismer. Before that, she received her clinical Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.S. in Communication Sciences & Disorders from Northwestern University.