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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.

Come see members of UConn KIDS and fellow members of our lab at various events around town! You can go to the UConn KIDS website to find out more and see the next events coming up: https://kids.uconn.edu/

We had a wonderful time with the scholars of the Young Scholars Senior Summit this summer!

UConn’s Connect Project Explores Language Abilities in Autism

Congrats to Hannah Thomas and undergraduate lab alum Aditi Sirsikar on their new publication, Convergence and discrepancy between self- and informant-reported depressive symptoms in young autistic adults in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

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, […]

Congratulations to lab alum Amanda Yagan on having her work as a clinical research assistant in the Advanced Baby Imaging Lab at Rhode Island Hospital featured in the most recent issue of UConn Magazine! Here is the link to her story which gives credit to postdoctoral fellow Caroline Larson and Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti for their mentorship: https://magazine.uconn.edu/2022/10/18/out-of-the-minds-of-babes/  

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. […]