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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Nicolette Caldwell

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Also affiliated: Google (United States) (2024); The University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Postdoc Researcher

8 h-index 16 pubs 319 cited

  • Communication Devices for People with Disabilities
  • Humans
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Male
  • Autistic Disorder
  • Child
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Communication Disorders
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Communication Aids for Disabled
  • Social Interaction
  • Communication
  • Linguistics

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Nicolette Caldwell's research focuses on communication interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She has investigated the use of mobile augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology in evidence-based instruction for individuals with ASD. Her work also examines the relationship between the amount of intervention and outcomes for young children with ASD, as well as the effects of interaction approaches and high-tech AAC on prelinguistic and linguistic communication skills. Caldwell has explored the potential of artificial intelligence to improve implementors' fidelity in instructional strategies for children with autism, specifically in handwashing acquisition. Her publications include systematic reviews and meta-analyses of early childhood autism intervention studies. She has collaborated extensively with Elizabeth R. Lorah and Christine Holyfield at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on these research endeavors.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 16
  • Citations: 319

Selected Publications

  • Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities (2025)
    Augmentative and Alternative Communication DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention on School Readiness Skills from Young Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2025)
    Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum (2024)
    Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Spurring Innovation in AAC Technology through Collaborative Dreaming and Needs Finding with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Who Use AAC (2024)
    Seminars in Speech and Language 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating Artificial Intelligence on the Efficacy of Preference Assessments for Preservice Speech-Language Pathologists (2024)
    Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Determining Associations Between Intervention Amount and Outcomes for Young Autistic Children (2024)
    Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 37 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Reducing linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities to enhance careers: avoiding assumptions based on speech, language and communication mode (2024)
    Career Development International 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evidence-b(i)ased practice: Selective and inadequate reporting in early childhood autism intervention research (2024)
    Autism 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation (2024)
    American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum (2023)
    Augmentative and Alternative Communication 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Implementors’ Fidelity of Instructional Strategies During Handwashing Acquisition in Children with Autism (2023)
    Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Autism intervention meta-analysis of early childhood studies (Project AIM): updated systematic review and secondary analysis (2023)
    BMJ 136 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Interaction Approaches and Added High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication on Prelinguistic and Linguistic Communication from School-Age Beginning Communicators (2023)
    Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Systematic Review of Evidence-based Instruction for Individuals with Autism Using Mobile Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology (2022)
    Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36 citations DOI OpenAlex

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