Jamie Kortanek’s poster, Quality of Life in Autistic Children: The Impact of ADHD Trait Prominence, Functional Performance, and Reporter, won second place at the OT Summit of Scholars conference & first place poster at the Graduate Student Banquet for UW’s Kinesiology Department. The participant data sample included Brainy Movement and & UW-LINK participants. The results …
Three current and former lab members presented work at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington D.C.! From left to right: Sonali Naik, former undergraduate research assistant, presented on postural stability. Her project found that autistic children demonstrate distinct neural contributions related to postural stability when they stand with their eyes closed. Monica Duran, …
Last week our very own Emily Skaletski was one of two winners of the best student poster at the Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars conference! The event was held in Columbus, Ohio where she presented her poster titled, “Relations between Quality of Life and Autism Features, Motor Skills, and Daily Living Skills in Autistic Children.” …
Dr. Olivia Surgent presented her poster this week at the annual meeting for the International Society for Autism Research in Stockholm, Sweden! Her presentation highlighted the unique sensorimotor pathways for grip strength in the brain that are associated with specific features of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This work was also featured in her dissertation …
Our Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) students had their presentations last week at Union South! Susan Lei, Lauren Salmi, Madelyn Scheid, and Roselyn Pacheco presented our Brainy Movement Study for Kids to the program and other URS students for their end of semester project. They did a wonderful job communicating our work, and we …
Our awesome 2nd Year Occupational Therapy Doctoral students presented their work at the OT program’s poster session. Their project investigated sensorimotor differences and motor skills in children with autism (ASD) and ADHD and children with ASD without ADHD as it relates to their daily living skills. They found that those children with both ASD and …
