The SAFE Program, the VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research (VTAC/CAR), and the VT Women's Basketball team collaborated together on our second Autism friendly basketball event! This game, inspired by #33 Elizabeth Kitley's autistic sister Raven, offered special sensory cues, lowered music volume, and a SAFE space for individuals/families to visit if they needed a more quiet environment. With over 80 people who
Congratulations to Ya-Yun Chen, who has been awarded Doctoral Fellowship Seed Funding from the Alliance for Neurodevelopment Research. The funding will be used to support Ya-Yun's doctoral dissertation research. Ya-Yun is a PhD student in the Affective Neurodynamics and Development Lab under the supervision of Dr. Tae-Ho Lee. Her research interests include understanding the neural circuitry underlying negative behaviors
Recently, a group of 16 undergraduate psychology research students visited Randolph College representing the Center for Applied Behavior Systems (CABS) and Virginia Tech to attend the mid-Atlantic regional conference for undergraduate students. There were six posters presented and below you will find the titles and corresponding authors:
“Effects of Interpersonal Kindness from Students to Professors on Mood Status for
Dr. Vanessa Diaz was thinking "outside of the box" when it came to her recent "Draw a scientist" instruction and research. During this instruction, Dr. Diaz interviews children to see how they develop ideas around gender and who can be a scientist. Diaz's research was so influential that it is now a recurring line in a poem by Erika Meitner as well as a musical composition by Charles Nichols. Read the full article by RJ
Dr. Charles Calderwood and Dr. Rosanna Breaux collaborated to better understand how working parents of children with special needs navigated teleworking and virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the situation created stress for those parents. Read more now.
Dr. Rosanna Breaux, assistant professor and director of both the CALMER Lab and Child Study Center, was recognized with honorable mentions for two awards, the first for the Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, in which she came in second place. Watch the video now!
The second is for her recent publication in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – the
Dr. Tae-Ho Lee, assistant professor of psychology, along with Ben Katz, assistant professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Il Hwan Kim, an assistant professor from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, have earned a five-year $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging for their study, "Losing Specificity: The role of the locus coeruleus in age-related
The VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research is delighted to announce that Kylie Bouchard and Delshad Shroff, mentored by VTCAR affiliate Rosanna Breaux, have received the VTCAR Student Award for 2022 to fund their research on “Evaluating the Short Sensory Profile 2 with Children and Adolescents with ASD and Comorbid Anxiety or ADHD”. Their research seeks to examine parent-reported sensory over responsivity and
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology Thomas Ollendick was recently ranked as one of the most influential figures in psychology by Research.com. Dr. Ollendick's highest rated manuscripts are an article published with Dianne Chambless on “Evidence-based Treatments” and his Fear Survey Schedule for Children – now translated into 13 languages. Even though Dr. Ollendick retired from Virginia Tech in June
Senior Psychology major Kylie Bouchard, under the mentorship of third year Clinical Science graduate student Delshad Shroff and Dr. Rosanna Breaux, received the 2022 VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research Student Award for her research project, “Evaluating the Short Sensory Profile 2 with Children and Adolescents with ASD and Comorbid Anxiety or ADHD.” Kylie has been working as an undergraduate research assistant
