Callier FLASH Seminar in Speech, Language and Hearing

Title: Impact of Pathways Parent-Mediated Intervention on Social Attention in Autistic Children

Speaker: Pamela Rollins, PhD
UT Dallas

On Friday, February 18 at 12:00pm, join the event on Microsoft Teams.

Dr. Pamela Rollins is leading research in developmental pragmatics, early social communication and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Her current research focuses on the effectiveness of Pathways Early Autism Intervention, a community-based, parent-mediated, behavioral and developmental intervention for young children with ASD. Pathways was found effective for the measures of social engagement and verbal reciprocity in toddlers with ASD. These intervention findings are consistent with her work in developmental pragmatics and the relationship between shared attention on language development in typically developing children and children with ASD. Dr. Rollins was a four-time gubernatorial appointee on the Texas Council on Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders; she earned her bachelor’s degree from Boston University, her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and her doctorates from Harvard Graduate School of Education.