Lab Director
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Caroline Larson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological Sciences Dr. Larson's research focuses on relationships between language and other cognitive factors in children with language disorders, including Developmental Language Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder, with the long-term goal of improving differential diagnosis and treatment. She will be joining the faculty at the University of Missouri. |
Teresa Girolamo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological Sciences Dr. Girolamo just joined the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department at San Diego State University. She directs the Brain, Environment, and Language Lab (BELL), which focuses on how individual differences in language, together with environmental influences, shape life outcomes for racially and ethnically minoritized autistic individuals. She uses behavioral methods and functional near-infrared spectroscopy, as well as community-based participatory approaches. The long-term objective of this work is to translate longitudinal knowledge into community-based supports. She will be joining the faculty at San Diego State University. |
Graduate Students (click on name for more info)
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 Elise Taverna (2018) |
 Jason Crutcher (2018) |
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Lab Alumni
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Ashley de Marchena (Ph.D., 2013)
Assistant Professor, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA |
Jessica Bean Jaworski (Ph.D., 2013)
Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Neuropsychologist, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA |
Jessica Mayo (Ph.D., 2014)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology, Yale School of Medicine |
Christina Irvine (Ph.D., 2016)
Clinical Psychologist, Portland, Oregon |
Brian Castelluccio (Ph.D., 2018)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Brown University Medical Center |
Allison Canfield (Ph.D., 2018)
Assistant Professor, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY |
Joshua Green (Ph.D., 2019)
Clinical Psychologist, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
Solène Jaspard (2023), Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Supported by a Belgian-American Educational Foundation award. Her PhD project focuses on the effect of input variability on word learning in autism |
Marielle Weyland (2022), Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Marielle Weyland is speech-therapist. She is currently a PhD student at Université Libre de Bruxelles within the ACTE project. Her research focuses on analyzing early vocal production of infant with high likelihood of ASD. |
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Cecilia Brynskov (2010): Aarhus University, Denmark |
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Katherine Mumford (2012), University of Birmingham, UK. |
