coe-staff: CANCELLED: CDS Tenure Track Faculty Candidate Colloquium

[Elizabeth A O'Harra]

Please note the following event has been cancelled:


From:    McKay Moore Sohlberg PhD CCC-SLP
HEDCO Professor
Director of CDS University of Oregon
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Dear all,

Please join us for a research colloquium, Tuesday, January 10, 2017, in HEDCO 230T for our Communication Disorders & Sciences tenure track faculty search. Details are below.


Courtney E. Venker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Understanding Mechanisms of Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Colloquium Tuesday, January 10, 2017  10:30-11:30AM
Informal Q&A 11:30 to 12:00PM
HEDCO 230T

Abstract: Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate severe delays in language development, particularly in the area of comprehension. My research examines mechanisms of processing and learning in order to understand why these comprehension delays occur. Children with weaker comprehension skills demonstrate poorer familiar word processing and novel word learning, suggesting that less robust processing and learning contribute to comprehension delays in ASD. Furthermore, children who show the poorest processing and learning also have the greatest difficulty with visual disengagement (i.e., ‘sticky attention’)—an area of known impairment in ASD. These findings are consistent with a developmental model in which impaired visual disengagement negatively affects children’s real-time processing and learning, which subsequently affects their language development.



Dr. Courtney Venker is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist and an Assistant Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The goal of her research program is to identify mechanisms of language development in children with autism spectrum disorder. In particular, her work focuses on how children combine auditory and visual information to process and learn language.





McKay Moore Sohlberg  PhD CCC-SLP
HEDCO Professor
Director of CDS University of Oregon
Ph (541) 346-2586
mckay at uoregon.edu<mailto:mckay at uoregon.edu>

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