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 …
Audra Sterling
Waisman postdoctoral training program: Training the next generation of IDD researchers
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 …
National Study Aims to Document Relationship Between Language and Cognition in Childhood Language Disorders
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. …
Machine learning can detect a genetic disorder from speech recordings
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 …
Legislation aimed at helping scientists sustain their careers
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 …