Kristen Muller Institution-verified

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Kristen Muller's research focuses on communication and language development in autistic children with minimal spoken language. She investigates alternative methods for assessing receptive language skills and word understanding in this population. Her work aims to explore the clinical feasibility of these alternative measures, providing more effective tools for evaluation and intervention.

Muller is the Principal Investigator on a grant from the NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, totaling $196,143. This funding supports her study on measuring word understanding and visual attention skills in minimally verbal/non-speaking children with autism. She maintains an active research lab and leads a research group dedicated to these areas of study.

Her publication record includes work on alternative receptive language assessment modalities and stimuli for autistic children who are minimally verbal, as well as exploring the clinical feasibility of alternative word-understanding measures for autistic children with minimal spoken language. She has also published on the link between motor-communication skills in minimally speaking children on the autism spectrum from the U.S. and India.

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• h-index: 4
• Publications: 9
• Citations: 80