Bio

I am interested in optimizing intervention efficacy for young children with developmental disabilities through individualized model selection, tailored intervention, and personalized progress monitoring methods. Toward this end, I study how new and complementary methods can predict likelihood of intervention response and reveal meaningful response patterns.

A special educator by training, I completed Bachelor degrees in Special Education and Child Studies at Vanderbilt University (‘15) and a Masters of Education in Mind, Brain, and Education science at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Following my Master's, I worked as an early intervention coach and senior research coordinator at the Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD). While at CARD I worked on a federally funded efficacy trial of Dr. Rebecca Landa’s Early Achievements model. The Early Achievements model is a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) for young children with autism that can be implemented by classroom teachers during routine preschool activities.

I continue my work in intervention research as a doctoral student in the Human Development, Learning and Teaching track and as a member of Dr. Charles Nelson’s research team in the Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital. I currently work on Dr. Nelson's projects combining behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methods for multimodal investigations into the efficacy of NDBIs across developmental classifications including Down Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.