Lindsay Butler, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

I am Assistant Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, a Faculty Affiliate of the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the director of the Brain and Language on the Autism Spectrum Lab at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on autistic children and adolescents who use minimal or no spoken language. My research aims to identify the behavioral profiles and brain mechanisms associated with limited spoken language development to improve communication supports. I use naturalistic and flexible methods meet the needs of autistic children and adolescents who use minimal or no spoken language and their families. These include remote, in-home psycholinguistic experiments and lightweight, wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy for brain imaging.