The next psychology colloquium is scheduled for Wednesday - April 3rd at 3:30pm in BOUS A106.
Dr. Jana Iverson from the University of Pittsburgh will be presenting her talk titled "Early Motor and Communicative Development in Infants with an Older Sibling with Autism Spectrum Disorder". We hope that you will join us!
Abstract: This talk will present findings from two lines of research designed to address the broader issue of the relationship between motor, communicative, and language development. The first assesses whether delays and atypicalities in early motor abilities and in the development of gesture and language provide an index of eventual ASD diagnosis. The second asks whether such delays also influence infants’ interactions with objects and people in ways that exert far-reaching, cascading effects on development that extend beyond the individual to impact the behavior of social partners and the communicative environment more broadly. Improving our understanding of communicative delays of the sort observed in ASD and developing effective intervention methods requires going beyond the individual to consider the constant, complex interplay between developing communicators and their environments.
The remaining colloquium scheduled is listed below. All talks will take place in BOUS A106 at 3:30pm on Wednesday’s unless otherwise noted.
April 17, 2019
Dr. Hal Blumenfeld, Department of Neurology, Yale University
Title: Consciousness and Epilepsy
April 24, 2019
Dr. Maryellen MacDonald, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Language Production is not Just for Producing Language
psychology.uconn.edu
Contact soniya.assudani@uconn.edu for more info
For more information, contact: Soniya Assudani Patel at soniya.assudani@uconn.edu