Lauren Lindstrom
Professor and Dean
Peter Mundy
Distinguished Professor of Education and Lisa Capps Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education
There are seven million exceptional children with special needs in our American school system, such as children with autism spectrum development. They have the right to appropriate and comparable educational opportunities. Truly meeting the needs of these children requires a commitment to integrating advances in educational science, neuroscience, and social policy.
- Peter Mundy Vita
- Early Social Communication Scales Manual
- Autism and Joint Attention Book (Mundy, 2016)
- Joint Attention and Information Processing in ASD
- Joint Attention, Executive Process, & Self Regulation in Infants
- Reading Development Subgroups and ASD
- The Scope and Nature of Reading Comprehension in ASD
- Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension in ASD
- Writing Development in ASD
- Joint Attention and Information Processing
- A virtual joy stick study of motivation in ASD
- A Virtual Public Speaking Task and Social attention in ASD
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Nicole Sparapani
Assistant Professor
Nicole Sparapani is an assistant professor in the School of Education and faculty member at the UC Davis MIND Institute. Her research interests center around the development and evaluation of effective educational practices for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Dr. Sparapani practiced as a certified speech-language pathologist on an interdisciplinary team serving preschool children with ASD for several years before pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication Science and Disorders at Florida State University and postdoctoral training at Arizona State University.