@lkbutler
Assistant Professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at UConn researching the brain bases of communication in autistic individuals with limited spoken language to identify strengths and enhance communication supports. Views my own.
Thank you to SFARI for supporting attendance at the Meeting on Language in Autism (#MoLA2024) for underrepresented researchers. More info available here: molautism.org/funding/
ICYMI. . .more info and call for abstracts now available at molautism.org
NOA in hand, we are ready to launch research in the NeuroPRISM lab! 🚀 Appreciate @noahghola.bsky.social NGNResearch taking the time to profile this NIMH R00-funded project.
We are hiring a fully-funded postdoc—reach out if interested and spread the word!
news.northeastern.edu/research/arc...
PSA: you can now post to the neuroskyence feed using just the 🧠📈 emojis!
Gave a talk at Yale Wu Tsai Institute for Neuroscience, which, of course, has a resident artist. She did a portrait of me giving my talk. Lovely. But, then she told me my talk sounded too soft for a neuroscientist. Given a redo, I would say brains are soft and squishy, so it's perfect neuroscience.
When people ask me how many languages I speak, I like to say, straight faced - all of them.
7 and 9 and still yelling, but mostly because they are so excited about life during the waking hours! No more 2am yelling wake-up calls. That is rough. I feel that.