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Faculty Affiliate Aims to Address Autism Language Delays, Earlier

September 14, 2022 | UT Dallas News Center.

Dr. Meghan Swanson, assistant professor of psychology and CCF faculty affiliate, has received a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders–a component of the National Institutes of Health–to identify language and communication markers for autism in infants. Research has shown that early intervention for children with autism is linked to improved development, especially in language skills. With that in mind, researchers have pushed to discover methods for detecting the potential for autism in infants in the first two years of life, before symptoms appear.

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