photo credit: Susan Julien

My dissertation examines a specific social communication skill in preschool-age children with autism spectrum disorder. We are recruiting families to participate!

Participants will be asked to complete two research sessions. During the first session, participants will take two standardized assessments to measure their expressive and receptive language skills and nonverbal cognitive skills.  Participants will also have their hearing screened and complete a very short (~5 min) criterion-referenced assessment of their perspective-taking skills.  During the second session, participants will complete a shared book reading activity with me.  During the book reading, we will read a book and I will ask the child some questions about the story. We will also play with some objects related to the book and look at and talk about the pictures in the book.   This activity will last about 20 minutes.

If you are interested in participating, we are recruiting families to participate!