Researcher

  • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joe Reichle
  • Funding: College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research Partnership Program
  • Project Title: “A Comparison of High and Low Dosages of Milieu Language Teaching Strategies”
  • Intervention study examining functional relationship between dose of language intervention strategy and acquisition of target vocabulary in preschool age learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Research Assistant – Child Language Intervention Lab

  • PI: Dr. Lizbeth Finestack
  • Funding: NIH
  • Project Title: “An Alternative Grammatical Treatment for Children with Language Impairment”
  • Language intervention effectiveness study; early school-age children with language impairment; deductive-inductive approach to teaching novel grammatical form
  • Primary responsibilities: supervision of MA level graduate students, recruitment, database management,  partner with families to coordinate intervention schedules and transportation logistics

Student Research Fellow

  • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joe Reichle
  • Funding: Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Program (read more about LEND)
  • Project Title: “Adult Interpretations of Potential Communicative Acts in Learners with Rett Syndrome”
  • Descriptive study examining familiar and unfamiliar adults’ interpretations of potential communicative behaviors produced by persons with Rett Syndrome