In Spring 2021, we welcomed Allison Benedict and Maddie Swisher to the lab. Allison is a first-year masters student in the SPHS program. She will be mostly working on our COVID-19 research project and our anxiety project. Maddie Swisher is a second-year masters student in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counselling. She will be completing … Read more

In September we welcomed Gabby Spinella to the lab. Gabby is a first-year master’s student in the SPHS program. She will be mostly working on our COVID-19 research project. Welcome Gabby!    

Dr. Harrop was interviewed as part of a piece for Spectrum News regarding the worldwide shutdowns impacting ASD research labs. The piece can be found here.    

Dr. Harrop was part of a panel at the “TraCS be nimble, TraCS be quick” event as part of the 2020 University Research Week. Dr. Harrop talked about our “rapid response” in securing our TraCS 2k to study the impact of COVID-19 on families with an autistic child.

Dr. Harrop presented at the 2020 TEACCH Conference “From Research to Practice” in September 2020. Her talk, “Hiding in Plain Sight? A Deeper Look at Females on the Autism Spectrum”, focused on the interplay between sex and gender in ASD and the use of biobehavioral methods to characterize females.

Orla Putnam joined the Harrop Lab in August 2020 as a PhD student in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Orla will be working across projects in the lab, including community engaged research projects and partnerships, and focusing on sex and gender differences in ASD. We are excited to have Orla join us!

We officially sad goodbye to Aaron in July as he started his faculty appointment at Towson University. Aaron will continue to collaborate with the Harrop Lab on various projects, including our COVID-19 Project and AANGST. Good luck Aaron!

While we couldn’t have an in-person celebration, we had a virtual send off for five undergraduate research assistants this spring. Emma, Leah and Allie are in staying the field of ASD research or treatment. Melissa will begin her Masters in Special Education at the Peabody School of Education at Vanderbilt University in the fall and … Read more

Aaron Dallman, graduate student in OS/OT and graduate student researcher in the Harrop Lab, defended his dissertation and officially become Dr. Dallman in May! Aaron’s dissertation focused on the use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to understand the dynamic nature of negative affect in autistic adolescents. Aaron will be staying on in the lab through … Read more

Our lab had five abstracts accepted to the Gatlinburg Conference for Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities conference that was scheduled for April 2020 in San Diego. Aaron Dallman and Dr. Harrop were part of a submission from Project BIDD (Behavioral Inflexibility in Developmental Disorders) reporting on a parent interview measuring inflexibility. Aaron … Read more