A5006682665- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Disability Education and Employment
Hofstra University
2025
Cohen Children's Medical Center
2025
Northwell Health
2025
Case Western Reserve University
2019-2024
Corewell Health Children's
2023-2024
University of South Dakota
2024
Avera Health
2024
West Liberty University
2023
Beaumont Health
2023
City University of New York
2015-2020
Impairments in statistical learning might be a common deficit among individuals with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Using meta-analysis, we examined SLI (14 studies, 15 comparisons) ASD (13 20 to evaluate this hypothesis. Effect sizes were as function of diagnosis across multiple tasks (Serial Reaction Time, Contextual Cueing, Artificial Grammar Learning, Speech Stream, Observational Probabilistic Classification). Individuals showed deficits relative...
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face unique challenges transitioning from high school to college and receive insufficient support help them navigate this transition. Through a participatory collaboration incoming current autistic students, we developed, implemented, evaluated two intensive week-long summer programs students transition into succeed in college. This process included: 1) developing an initial program curriculum guided by recommendations our ongoing mentorship...
Autistic university students face stigma. Online trainings have been used to improve explicit autism stigma (social distance) and knowledge among in different countries. However, autistic not typically involved developing such trainings. We developed two trainings: a participatory training (developed collaboration with students) non-participatory training. evaluated these undergraduate the United States Lebanon. A pilot study revealed improvements implicit biases (measured an Implicit...
Although stigma negatively impacts autistic people globally, the degree of varies across cultures. Prior research suggests that may be higher in cultures with more collectivistic orientations. This study aimed to identify cultural values and other individual differences contribute cross-cultural autism (assessed a social distance scale) between college students Lebanon ( n = 556) those United States 520). Replicating prior work, was lower women than men relative Lebanon. Heightened...
Research has shown that plagiarism is on the increase in higher education. Some state this due to poor knowledge rather than intentional cheating. Other researchers explain rise increased competitiveness college and easy access work already been completed. In study, we show how a 2-hr intervention research methods classes, available free online, successfully reduced sample of undergraduate students registered psychology class across three semesters. The implications study are need specific...
Many of the nearly six million autistic adolescents and adults in United States require support to navigate daily life. Family members often provide first line for youth by providing care coordinating services. Although considerable research has examined perspectives family caring young children, comparatively less focused on those transition-age who struggle access needed services as they leave child-serving systems care. This study caregiver-reported barriers service 174 spectrum (ages...
Automatic detection of infant actions from home videos could aid medical and behavioral specialists in the early motor impairments infancy. However, most computer vision approaches for action recognition are centered around adult subjects, following datasets benchmarks field. In this work, we present a data-efficient pipeline based on idea modeling an as time sequence consisting two different stable postures with transition period between them. The detected frame-wise estimated 2D 3D body...
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the significance of vaccine hesitancy in shaping vaccination outcomes. Understanding factors underpinning is crucial for tailoring effective strategies. This cross-sectional study, conducted three communities across United States and Lebanon, employed surveys to assess respondents' knowledge, attitudes, perceptions regarding infection vaccination. Among 7,196 participants, comprising 6,775 from US 422 rates were comparable at 12.2% 12.8%,...
The cross-modal picture-word interference task is used to examine contextual effects on spoken-word production. Previous work has documented lexical-phonological in children with specific language impairment (SLI) when a related distractor (e.g., bell) occurs prior picture be named bed). In the current study, authors examined whether also arises nonwords as distractors.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the significance of vaccine hesitancy in shaping vaccination outcomes. Understanding factors underpinning is crucial for tailoring effective strategies. This cross-sectional study, conducted three communities across United States and Lebanon, employed surveys to assess respondents’ knowledge, attitudes, perceptions regarding infection vaccination. Among 7196 participants, comprising 6775 from US 422 rates were comparable at 12.2% 12.8%, respectively....
Purpose We aimed to determine whether individual differences in manual dexterity are associated with specific language skills (nonword repetition, receptive vocabulary, and grammar) after controlling for nonverbal abilities (visual–spatial working memory intelligence). Method assessed using the pegboard task examined relationships verbal a diverse community sample of children ( N = 63, mean age 8;2 [year;months], range: 6;0–10;8) varying ability (Comprehensive Evaluation Language...