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Tag: Audra Sterling

Boys with fragile X syndrome + autism spectrum disorder and autistic boys show high rates of word omission during conversations

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By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet, Waisman Science Writer Note: The lab of Audra Sterling uses identity-first language in response to the majority preference of the autistic community. This story reflects that preference. Omission of words during conversations may be a unique grammatical marker and part of the language profile associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A …

Waisman postdoctoral training program: Training the next generation of IDD researchers

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By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet, Waisman Science Writer A pillar of the Waisman Center is investing in the next generation of research leaders through training and education. For more than 26 years, the center’s Postdoctoral Training Program in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research has helped shape the careers and research paths of more than 53 postdoctoral …

National Study Aims to Document Relationship Between Language and Cognition in Childhood Language Disorders

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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will be one of two sites for a national study that aims to better understand language and cognition in two groups of children affected by language disorders. Language development researchers Jill Hoover, associate professor of communication disorders in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health …

Machine learning can detect a genetic disorder from speech recordings

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How much information can we extract from a five-minute recording of someone talking? Enough to tell whether that individual may be genetically predisposed to some health complications, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. In a new study published this month in Scientific Reports, the researchers used …

Legislation aimed at helping scientists sustain their careers

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By Kelly April Tyrrell Young scientists in the U.S. today face tremendous hurdles. Take, for example, the fact that while the average scientist in 1980 was 36 when they scored their first NIH (National Institutes of Health) grant, it now takes seven more years to achieve that significant career milestone. And young scientists are finding it …