Diane L. Williams, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, conducts NIH-funded behavioral and neuroimaging studies of language and cognitive processing in high-functioning children and adults with autism in collaboration with the Center for Autism Research at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Williams has extensive clinical experience with children and adults with autism with a wide range of cognitive abilities and has served as a consultant for numerous school districts. A primary focus of her research program is the design of interventions for children with autism based on a neurobiological model. She is the author of Developmental Language Disorders: Language, Learning, and the Brain.Join Dr. Williams for her breakout session on Friday, April 23rd, Challenges to Learning: Gifted Children on the Autism Spectrum.
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