2017 Research Symposium at the ASHA Convention

The Research Symposium is a yearly event at the ASHA Convention, where current, theme-focused research is presented by invited speakers.

Symposium Topic

Advances in Autism Research: From Learning Mechanisms to Novel Interventions

Symposium Presentations

Narrated presentations are available in Figshare.

• Improving Developmental Trajectories of Toddlers With ASD – Strategies for Bridging Research to Practice, Amy Wetherby, PhD, Florida State University
• Social Communication and Language Interventions for Minimally-Verbal School-Aged Children with ASD, Connie Kasari, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
• Executive Function Abilities in School-age Children With ASD, Susan Ellis Weismer, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Lexical Development in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sudha Arunachalam, PhD, Boston University
• Early Motor and Communicative Development in Infants with an Older Sibling With ASD, Jana Iverson, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
• What's Meaning Got to Do With It? Some Origins of the Semantic Difficulties of Children With ASD, Letitia Naigles, PhD, University of Connecticut

Symposium Publications

Papers based on the 2017 Research Symposium were published in a Research Forum in the November 2018 issue of Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR). They will be available through PubMed Centralbeginning in May 2019

• Tager-Flusberg, H. (2018).  Introduction to the research symposium forum. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2613–2614.
• Wetherby, A. M., Woods, J., Guthrie, W., Delehanty, A., Brown, J. A., Morgan, L., ...Lord, C. (2018). Changing developmental trajectories of toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: Strategies for bridging research to Community Practice. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2615–2628.
• Kasari, C., Sturm, A., & Shih, W. (2018). SMARTer approach to personalizing intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2629–2640.
• Ellis Weismer, S., Kaushanskaya, M., Larson, C., Mathée, L., & Bolt, D. (2018). Executive function skills in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder: Association with language abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2641–2658.
• Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. J. (2018). Lexical development in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): How ASD may affect intake from the input. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2659–2672.
• Iverson, J. M. (2018). Early motor and communicative development in infants with an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2673–2684.
• Abdelaziz, A., Kover, S. T., Wagner, M., & Naigles, L. R. (2018). The shape bias in children with autism spectrum disorder: Potential sources of individual differences. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11),2685–2702. 

The Research Symposium is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).