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Purpose: The need for community-viable, evidence-based intervention strategies for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a national priority. The purpose of this research forum article is to identify gaps in intervention research and needs in community practice for toddlers with ASD, incorporate published findings from a randomized controlled trial (RCT)...
This presentation examines why children with autism spectrum disorder struggle with word meaning, pointing to an early learning strategy called the shape bias that fails to develop consistently.
...This presentation examines early motor and communicative development in infants with an older sibling with autism, exploring how motor delays might shape caregiver language input over time.
...This presentation explores how young children with autism spectrum disorder learn new words, considering whether they rely on sentence structure rather than social and visual cues.
...This presentation examines executive function skills in school-age children with autism, weighing whether language ability or executive function is the true driving force.
...This presentation explores how the brain automatically separates overlapping sounds into distinct streams, raising the question of what happens to information we aren’t actively attending to. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Good morning. I first want to thank Karen for inviting me. I...
This presentation examines how attention shapes brain activity during listening, revealing why some people with normal hearing still struggle to follow conversations in noisy settings. https://youtu.be/H8-8W9eG-Bc The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. What I’m going to talk to you about today is sort of...
This presentation introduces a beam-forming hearing aid that uses eye tracking to help listeners focus on one voice, describing gains for hearing-impaired users but tradeoffs in spatial awareness. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you Karen, and thank you for inviting me here...
This presentation traces how children learn to pick out one voice from competing speech, revealing that even school-age kids struggle with skills adults use automatically in noisy settings. The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Thank you very much to Karen for inviting me to...
This presentation examines why older adults struggle to follow speech amid competing conversations, pointing to cognitive factors that matter even when hearing loss alone does not explain the difficulty. I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects...