Lingo Lab

Our last Lingo Lab meeting was a blast!🤩

We said goodbye to the semester by thanking everyone's participation in our team, thinking about what next year holds, and decorating Christmas cookies!

Lingo Lab all around🤩

Thank you to the Potter Park Zoo for having us at this sensory friendly event with FALCONERS!

Our Lingo Lab team at the Navigating Autism Today Conference in Grand Rapids last Friday! 🎉

Thank you to the Autism Alliance of Michigan for having us!

Our research team, along with former Lingo Lab postdoc Janine Mathée-Scott, has just published an article in Frontiers in Psychology!

The article, "A novel method for examining autistic children’s comprehension of individual words produced within delayed echolalia: A proof-of-concept pilot study," describes a study which utilized Looking-While-Listening procedures to examine whether two autistic children comprehended individual words within their own delayed echoes - and they did!

Frontiers | A novel method for examining autistic children’s comprehension of individual words produced within delayed echolalia: a proof-of-concept pilot study Delayed echolalia, or the repetition of previously heard speech, is often observed in the expressive language of autistic children. Relatively little is know...

Graduate Student Grace Corrigan published an article in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders!🎉

Grace Corrigan, one of our graduate students, just published an open-access article in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders titled, Autistic Individuals’ Categorical Induction Abilities Improve by Mid-Adolescence.

Autistic Individuals’ Categorical Induction Abilities Improve by Mid-Adolescence - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Purpose Categorical induction, the ability to transfer a known category’s properties to a new category member, develops early and robustly in typically developing (TD) children but has proven challenging for autistic children and adolescents. We investigated whether autistic and TD adolescents mig...

We had two amazing posters at the 2025 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum!

Audrey, Ashlyn, and Alicia's poster was "Reading into Neurodiversity: Autism Terminology in Children's Books"

Duaa, Himani, and Kate's poster was "Impacts of Authors’ Relationships to Autism on Characterization of Peer Interactions in Children’s Books About Autism"

We couldn't be more proud of both groups and their effort in not only putting these posters together but also the research they undertook this semester that was necessary to make this happen. Way to go to both groups and way to represent the Lingo Lab 😁

We had a blast at the MSU Science Festival last weekend! It was an excellent experience highlighting all the different ways we can communicate. It's one of our favorite events on campus, and we look forward to returning next year 😁😁

The Lingo Lab had an amazing time at the 2025 Michigan Speech-Language Hearing Association Conference!

Lab director Dr. Courtney Venker, Speech-Language Pathologist Jennifer Johnson, and Research Coordinator Zachary Hesse gave their talk, "Gestalt Language Development, Evidence-Based Practice, and Neurodiversity".

We also had 2nd-year master's student Margot Stern present her poster, "Autistic Adolescents’ Views on Autism in Children’s Books". Way to go Margot!

MSHA is one of our favorite conferences; we can't wait to attend it again!

We are currently recruiting for a study about autism in children's books. If interested please scan the QR code or use the following link: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4NoL7Qf7gbziQMS. Thank you!

Check out these Lingo Lab updates from our fall 2024 newsletter!

Dr. Courtney Venker and Dr. Emily Lorang just published an open-access article in Autism Research called, "A Commentary on Children's Books about Autism: What Messages Do They Send about Neurodiversity?"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.3081

A couple weeks ago we were so delighted to attending for the first time! It was such an insightful and inspirational experience. We're thankful to all the presenters and attendees who shared their experiences with us and to those we were able to connect with. We can't wait for next year!