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Minimally Verbal/Non-Speaking Individuals With Autism: Research Directions for Interventions to Promote Language and Communication - Participants

January 24-25, 2023
Virtual Workshop

Participant List

Chairs

Judith Cooper, NIDCD Deputy Director

Connie Kasari, UCLA

Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University

Speakers and Discussants

Leonard Abbeduto
University of California, Davis

Daniel Almirall
University of Michigan

Vanessa H. Bal
Rutgers University

Matthew Belmonte
The Com DEALL Trust

Grant Blasko
CommunicationFIRST Advisory Council

Nancy Brady
University of Kansas

Stephen Camarata
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Karen Chenausky
MGH Institute of Health Professions

Melanie Fried-Oken
Oregon Health & Science University

J. Birdie Ganz
Texas A&M University

Jasmine Urquhart Gillis
S and L Therapy

Vikram Jaswal
University of Virginia

Connie Kasari (co-chair)
UCLA

Jennifer Kent-Walsh
University of Central Florida

Eliane Lazar-Wesley
NIDCD/NIH

Janice Light
Pennsylvania State University

Denise Lombardi and RJ
Parent; typer

Cathy Lord
UCLA

Amy Lutz
University of Pennsylvania

David McNaughton
Pennsylvania State University

John Robison
Self-advocate

Lawrence Scahill
Emory University

Howard Shane
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School/MGH Institute of Health Professions

Frederick Shic
University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Stephen Shore
Adelphi University

Alison Singer
Autism Science Foundation

Helen Tager-Flusberg (co-chair)
Boston University

Kathy Thiemann-Bourque
University of Kansas

Sarah E. Wallace
University of Pittsburgh

Zachary Williams
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine/Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jordyn Zimmerman
The Nora Project & Chair, CommunicationFIRST

Additional Participants

Cathy Binger
University of New Mexico

Amanda Brignell
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Charlotte de Stefano
University of Southern California

Aimee Dietz
Georgia State University

Caitlin Hudac
University of South Carolina

Kristy Johnson
Harvard University

Lynn Koegel
Stanford University

Courtney Norbury
University College London

MaryAnn Romski
Georgia State University

Stephanie Shire
University of Oregon

Audrey Thurm
National Institutes of Health

Giocomo Vivanti
Drexel University

Krista Wilkinson
Pennsylvania State University

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