MSU Autism Lab

Congratulations to 2nd year graduate student Lauren Duvall on being awarded a 2025-2027 Early On Faculty Grant from Clinton County to support her master’s project.

Lauren, who works in the MSU Autism Lab, is working to better support autistic children and their families, but she’s also interested in finding out what kind of provider level supports could be implemented.

"These providers are working so hard to deliver high-quality clinical services to families. If this study shows that there are ways to better support these providers in their delivery of services, then we can establish new supports to better aid providers and their ability to care for the families that they work with," said Lauren.

Congrats again, Lauren!

Join the Project ImPACT Advanced Course!

Aksheya Sridhar, M.A. and MSU Autism Lab Graduate Student Diondra Straiton, M.A. were guests on the Making Sense Sensory Health Podcast Series from the STAR Insititute and shared five concrete action steps for clinicians to take in response to anti-black racism in the autism clinical pathway. Click the link to list to the episode:

‎Making Sense: 5 Concrete Action Steps for Clinicians to Take in Response to Anti-black Racism in the Autism Clinical Pathway on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Making Sense, Ep 5 Concrete Action Steps for Clinicians to Take in Response to Anti-black Racism in the Autism Clinical Pathway - Feb 23, 2022

The MSU Autism Lab wishes everyone a Happy Holiday and would like to thank all of our staff, students, families, providers, and partners for making our research possible. Thank You!

The MSU Autism Lab is hiring undergraduate research assistants! Interested students are invited to come to our walk-in interview day on December 2nd from 9am-11am in Room 110E of the Psychology Building. Students can also apply by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEj17gAeiz0-XjtJvh9kVeCNpWgDhTBWBbPhySw7MuHnzM-A/viewform

Check out the latest episode of "Autism Annex: The STAR Autism Support Podcast". Brooke Ingersoll and Anna Dvortcsak, co-authors of Project ImPACT, discuss their comprehensive social skills training curriculum for families of young children with autism.

‎Autism Annex: The STAR Autism Support Podcast: Teaching Social Communication: Insights into Parent and Caregiver Training on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Autism Annex: The STAR Autism Support Podcast, Ep Teaching Social Communication: Insights into Parent and Caregiver Training - Aug 30, 2022

September registration for the art ability bags is now open! Register here: https://lansingartgallery.org/community-collaborations/

The Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center Art Has No Barriers is a program created with teaching artist Catherine Tonning-Popowich. It is an all-inclusive art class for students with and without disabilities. Students will learn to make their own art projects using various techniques and tools with no prior art experience necessary.

Registration is required, one FREE Art Ability Bag per person (supplies are limited). Please contact Michelle Carlson at [email protected] for information on getting an Art Ability Bag mailed directly to your home. There is also curbside pick-up from 11am-2pm 9/10/22 at the Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center, 300 S. Washington Square, Suite 100, Lansing.

Check out the MSU Autism Lab's Fall 2022 Newsletter here:https://autismlab.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MSU-Autism-Lab-Fall-2022-Newsletter-2.pdf

The MSU Autism Lab had a great time last night at Midtown Brewery. Say hi to our two newest lab members, graduate student Hannah Tokish and research assistant Anthuanet Espinel!

The MSU Autism Lab had a great time at this year's International Society for Autism Research Conference! Our lab's poster presentations included posters presented by Julia Nauman, Jessie Greatorex, Diondra Straiton, Sanchia Fernandes, and Mya Howard, who also partook in a tech demo that showcased the technology we are using on our RISE study. Our PI Brooke Ingersoll, lab alumni Kaylin Russel, and graduate student Ana Pomales-Ramos presented in the panel on "Leveraging Diverse Digital Technologies to Disseminate Evidence-Based Autism Interventions". We also had an oral session presented by graduate student Kyle Frost entitled "Stakeholder Perspectives on Family ‘Fit’ for a Parent-Implemented Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention" and our graduate student Diondra Straiton co-lead a special interested group entitled "Advancing Anti-Racist Research and Clinical Practice in the Autism Field". Congratulations to everyone!

A big congrats to our undergraduate student Jessie Greatorex who was awarded an Autism Science Foundation’s Undergraduate Research Summer Grant to support her research this summer. Jessie will work directly with ABA agencies that contract with Medicaid to determine how clinicians can better support parents participating in parent- mediated interventions. Congrats Jessie!