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The Harrop Lab welcomes a new research assistant, Sophie Bittner. Sophie will be working as a research assistant on the Harrop Lab’s Connections+ study with autistic older adults. Prior to her work in the Harrop Lab, Sophie worked in the Cohen Lab at UNC studying network integration and executive functioning...

Dr. Harrop was recently part of a team of experts, including researchers, clinicians, parents and self-advocates, highlighting the challenges for autistic females, spanning pre-diagnosis, research gaps to clinical supports. The article, led by Dr. Lai, was published in Lancet Psychiatry

The Harrop Lab welcomes first year doctoral students Margaret (Mags) McAllister and Alison (Sonny) Russell! Mags is a doctoral student in Speech and Hearing and is interested in studying personal and communicative functions of echolalia and repetitive behaviors for autistic individuals. Sonny is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology and...

1st year doctoral student, Mags McAllister (SPHS) was appointed to Royster Society of Fellows at UNC. This prestigious fellowship provides Mags with additonal funding, resources, and training during her doctoral program and beyond. A well-deserved honor!

Dr. Harrop, together with Drs. Chan and Klinger, were recently awarded a two year R21 award from NIMH to examine how social connections associate with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in older autistic and non-autistic adults. This project extends our recently completed OAR-funded study and will include GPS/GIS tracking, daily dairies...

Dr. Harrop, together with graduate students Orla Putnam (SPHS), Claire Klein (Clinical Psychology), research manager Elena Lemarche and faculty Brianne Tomaszewski and Laura Klinger (UNC TEACCH) recently published 20 years of statewide diagnostic data from UNC TEACCH clinics demonstrating that more females are being diagnosed with autism in the state...

Third year graduate student, Orla Putnam, presented both a poster and oral presentation at the 2022 American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) conference in New Orleans. Together with SAGA Collaborator, Dr. Parish-Morris, she presented data examining how prosodic markers of speech vary been autistic males and females and non-autistic males...

This month we welcome our new research coordinator, Maia Karpinsky, to the Harrop Lab. Maia graduated this spring from Marquette University. She will be project coordinator for the SAGA Study, working directly with families and leading assessments. We are excited to have her join the growing team!  

After a long journey (!), we are excited to our study examining attention to non-social stimuli published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study examined how autistic children, children with developmental disorders, and neurotypical children attended to non-social stimuli with varying properties, such as movement. We thank Dr. Claire...

This fall, 5th year graduate student, Jessie Goldblum, was awarded the Dashell Dissertation Award from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. This awarded is intended to support Jessie’s dissertation studies and allows her to recruit more families for the TRAVEL study. Congrats Jessie!