We are the Brain, Environment, and Language Lab (BELL) at San Diego State University. We study language and communication in autism. Our research draws from communication sciences and disorders, education, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and public health. We use behavioral methods and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine language and communication in youth and adults.
Some of the questions we ask are:
- How do different factors shape the transition to adulthood?
- How can we better understand the ways people learn and use language?
- What can underlying linguistic and cognitive processes tell us about real-world language and communication?
Ultimately, our objective is to understand the transition to adulthood in autism and to translate this knowledge into supports.
Funding
Our work has been supported by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation. Currently, our research is funded by the Drexel University Autism Transitions Research Project and NIH-NIDCD 1R21DC021769-01A1.
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