LI+TLE Lab

We could not be prouder of LI+TLE Lab alum Kimberly Lin, whose paper (with Lisa Wisman Weil and Rhiannon Luyster) was just published! Read about how the imageability of words is associated with child vocabulary for children on the spectrum...the article is open access! Congrats, Kim!

Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder - Kimberly R Lin, Lisa Wisman Weil, Audrey Thurm, Catherine Lord, Rhiannon J Luyster, 2022 Background & aims Throughout typical development, children prioritize different perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn words. The earliest acquired wo...

Check out Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences' Duke Center for Autism Speaker Series next Wednesday, February 2, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm EST to hear Sudha Arunachalam, PhD and Rhiannon Luyster, PhD present on Learning Words from Overheard Language in Autistic Children.

Register here: https://autismcenter.duke.edu/speaker-series

https://psychiatry.duke.edu/events/learning-words-overheard-language-autistic-children

Learning Words from Overheard Language in Autistic Children | Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Please join us for the next presentation in our 2021-2022 Duke Center for Autism Speaker Series! Our speakers will be Sudha Arunachalam, PhD, associate professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University, and Rhiannon Luyster, PhD, associate professor of Communication Sciences &...

Hooray Rachel! This is such a terrific accomplishment, and we know it's just the beginning -- look out world, here she comes!

We are so proud of LI+TLE Lab alum Kaya LeGrand, who just had her paper accepted at the prestigious Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research! Her work highlights the importance of early verb mastery in predicting language outcomes in ASD. Congratulations, Kaya! We are so proud of you.