Baumeister, F., Wolfer, P., Vila Borrellas, E., Solaimani, E., Eigsti, I.-M., & Durrleman, S. (2026). Associations between second-language proficiency and executive functions in autistic and neurotypical children. Open Mind, 10, 613-640.

Bell, R. R., Thomas, H., Saffran, J. R., & Eigsti, I. M. (2025). A systematic review of statistical learning in autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 2.

O’Connor, H. G., Crutcher, J., Burke, J., Butler, E., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2026). Symptoms of oppositional behavior in autistic adolescents and adolescents who have lost the autism diagnosis. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54(62).

Prescott, K. E., Larson, C., Stabile, M. J., & Eigsti, I. M. (2026). Sound-symbol correspondence in autism: The Bouba-Kiki effect. Autism Research, 131.

Lab members Stella Shen, Rebecca Bell and Sarah Schillinger presented their work at the Meeting on Language in Autism,  2026.

Dr. Girolamo was chosen as a recipient of the ASHA Early Career Contributions to Research Award! We are so proud of Teresa, former post-doc in the CALL lab.

UConn’s Connect Project Explores Language Abilities in Autism

Crutcher, J., Butler, E., Burke, J. D., Naigles, L., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (in press). Pragmatic language and associations with externalizing behaviors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those who have lost the ASD diagnosis. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Congrats to post-doctoral fellow Teresa Girolamo on her new position at San Diego State University, and her multiple recent publications:

Girolamo, T., Castro, N., Hendricks, A. E., Ghali, S., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Implementation of Open Science Practices in Communication Sciences and Disorders Research With Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00272

Girolamo, T., Parker, T., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Incorporating DisCrit theory to combat systematic exclusion of BIPOC in clinical neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.988092

Girolamo, T., Ghali, S., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). A community-based approach to longitudinal language research with racially and ethnically minoritized autistic young adults: Lessons learned and new directions. American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology, 32(3), 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_ajslp-22-00341

Girolamo, T., Shen, L., Gulick, A., Rice, M. L., & Eigsti, I. M. (in press). Studies pertaining to language impairment in school-age autistic individuals underreport participant sociodemographics: A systematic review. Autism.

We are delighted to share a new publication, describing the Low Verbal Investigatory Screener (LVIS).  We hope that this measure will prove useful to the broader community!

Naples*, Tenenbaum*,  Jones, Righi, Sheinkopf  & Eigsti (in press). Exploring communicative competence in autistic children who are minimally verbal: The Low Verbal Investigatory Survey for Autism (LVIS). Autism. *First and second author made equal contributions.

And learn more about the LVIS here:

eLow-Verbal Investigatory Survey (eLVIS) Project Home

https://sparkforautism.org/discover_article/stigma-autism/