LI+TLE Lab

Loved our shoutout in Emerson news! Nice work, Kaya LeGrand!!

Master Thesis Project Fills Gap in Autism Research - Emerson Today As a graduate student in Communication Sciences & Disorders, Kaya LeGrand MS '20 spearheaded a research project to help answer one of many questions surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Which features of autistic children's language are most useful for their adult language ability??

Publication alert! With Drs. Emily Zane (JMU) and Sudha Arunachalam (NYU), Lab director Rhiannon Luyster just published a paper called "Personal pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder" in the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. Our findings suggest that these errors reflect challenges with pronoun meaning.

Personal pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder

How do children learn language when they are not directly spoken to?

Dr. Sudha Arunachalam of the LEARN Lab at New York University and Dr. Rhiannon Luyster of the LI+TLE Lab at Emerson College are collaborating through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded study to examine how children acquire new words.

We hope our research will contribute to new teaching methods for language that make fewer social demands of learners and improve the way language is taught to all children.

Learn more about our study here: https://word.emerson.edu/kids/

Sign up to participate here: https://redcap.link/kidscsdresearch