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Helen Tager-Flusberg headshot.

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Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Affiliations
  • Professor, Boston University

Publications

The neural bases of language processing during social and non-social contexts: A fNIRS study of autistic and neurotypical preschool-aged children.

Mol. Autism., August 6, 2025

Pecukonis M., Gerson J., Gustafson-Alm H., Wood M., Yücel M., Boas D.A., et al.

The neural bases of language processing during social and non-social contexts: A fNIRS study of autistic and neurotypical preschool-aged children.

Res. Sq., June 6, 2024

Pecukonis M., Gerson J., Gustafson-Alm H., Wood M., Yücel M., Boas D., et al.

Receptive language and receptive-expressive discrepancy in minimally verbal autistic children and adolescents.

Autism Res., February 1, 2024

Chen Y., Siles B., and H. Tager-Flusberg

Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school-aged autistic children.

Autism Res., March 1, 2023

Butler L.K. and H. Tager-Flusberg

Projects

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Evaluating two newly developed treatment outcome measures (BOSCC and ELSA) in the context of an ASD behavioral intervention trial

Awarded 2019
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Developing parent-friendly tools for assessing expressive language outcome measures in young children with autism

Awarded 2019
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Developing expressive language outcome measures for autism clinical trials

Awarded 2015
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Characterization of infants and toddlers with the 16p copy-number variation

Awarded 2011

Featuring Helen Tager-Flusberg

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SFARI Investigators and Affiliated Staff Appointed to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee

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Parental Influence on Language Development in Infants at High and Low Risk for Autism

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SFARI Announces 2019 Novel Outcome Measures in Autism Spectrum Disorder Awardees

Events

Attention Deficits in Autism

SFARI Workshop

February 11, 2011

All Day

Speakers

Robert Desimone, Yuhong Jiang, Kami Koldewyn, Jim Tanaka, Elizabeth Pellicano, + 5 more

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