Verbally Fluent Autism Across the Lifespan

Verbally Fluent Autism Across the Lifespan

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Julia Parish-Morris, Ph.D.

Location: Online Workshop

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3 CE Credits

Act 48 available

In this session, participants will learn about the central role that language plays in various aspects of our lives. They will learn how verbally fluent autistic individuals can face challenges using language to achieve their short- and long-term goals. Finally, participants will learn about many important ways to support social communication development in autistic people from birth through adulthood.

Objectives:

1. Describe the three main components of language
2. Describe the difference between language structure and language function
3. Name 3 areas of life for which language is central
4. Describe how language development progresses similarly and differently for autistic children

Julia Parish-Morris, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Scientist at the Center for Autism Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Parish-Morris studies clinical language and social attention phenotypes across the lifespan in individuals with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric differences. Specifically, she uses computational approaches – including NLP and machine learning – to quantify social communication, with a focus on understudied subgroups like autistic girls. Dr. Parish-Morris graduated magna cum laude from Smith College, and earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Temple University, with postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has lectured about communication and social attention at conferences and workshops both nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of multiple prestigious fellowships and awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Autism Science Foundation, the American Psychological Association, and the Department of Defense. Her work has been published in highly regarded scientific journals included the Lancet – Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, JAMA Pediatrics, Molecular Autism, and Autism Research.

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