Helen Tager-Flusberg
{{Short description|Autism researcher}}
Helen Tager-Flusberg is an American psychologist who is professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science at Boston University and the Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/autism/home/lab-director/ |title=Lab Director, Research on Autism and Developmental Disorders |publisher=Boston University |accessdate=January 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229031745/http://www.bu.edu/autism/home/lab-director/ |archivedate=December 29, 2013 }} She is the Director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University.{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/htagerf/|title=Helen Tager-Flusberg, PhD|publisher=Boston University|accessdate=January 1, 2014}}
Personal life and education
Tager-Flusberg was born in England. She received her bachelor's degree from the University College London in psychology.{{cite web|url=http://media.mindinstitute.org/video/graphics/dls/2013/tager_flusberg_bioabstract.pdf|publisher=MIND Institute|title=Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., M.I.N.D. Institute Distinguished Lecturer Series|date=December 12, 2012|accessdate=January 1, 2014}} She moved to the US in the 1970s and obtained her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University in 1978. Her dissertation compared children with autism to children with severe developmental language disorders in studies on syntax, semantics and object play.
She was a professor in the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) until 2001, and between 1996 and 2001, she was a Senior Scientist at the UMass Medical Center. She has been at Boston University since 2001, initially at the School of Medicine and since 2009 in the College of Arts & Sciences.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
Career
=Appointments=
Tager-Flusberg was President of the International Society for Autism Research (2011–2013),{{cite web|url=http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/investigator-profiles/2011/helen-tager-flusberg-decoding-the-language-of-autism|publisher=SFARI: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative|accessdate=January 1, 2014|title=Helen Tager-Flusberg: Decoding the language of autism|author=Hughes, Virginia|date=November 24, 2011}} and served on the National Deafness and Communication Disorders Advisory Council from 2012 to 2016.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
She is on the editorial boards of Autism and Autism Research;{{cite web|url=http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/boards/scientific-advisory-board/bios |title=Scientific Advisory Board Biographies |publisher=Autism Speaks |accessdate=January 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102190913/http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/boards/scientific-advisory-board/bios |archivedate=January 2, 2014 }} and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology and is Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Recognition
Ken Wexler, a professor of cognitive science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "If you asked somebody, 'Who are the famous people studying language in autism?' she's the first name to come to mind."
Selected publications
As of 2012, Tager-Flusberg has edited four books and published more than 200 journal articles and individual chapters in books; some of her books are:
- {{cite book|title=Autism And Williams Syndrome|series=Essays in Developmental Psychology|author=Tager-Flusberg, Helen|publisher=Psychology Press|location=UK|isbn=978-1841690087|year=2005}}
- {{cite book|title=Constraints on Language Acquisition: Studies of Atypical Children|author=Tager-Flusberg, Helen|publisher=L. Erlbaum Associates|isbn=978-0805806670|year=1993}}
- {{cite book|title=Neurodevelopmental Disorders|series=Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience|author=Tager-Flusberg, Helen|publisher=A Bradford Book|isbn=978-0262201162|year=1999}}
- {{cite book|title=Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience|editor=Baron-Cohen, Simon|editor-link=Simon Baron-Cohen|editor2=Tager-Flusberg, Helen|editor3=Cohen, Donald J.|editor3-link=Donald J. Cohen|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0198524465|year=2000}}
- {{cite book|title=Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism|editor1=Cohen, Donald J.|editor2=Baron-Cohen, Simon|editor3=Tager-Flusberg, Helen|publisher=Oxford Medical Publications|isbn=978-0192620569|year=1994}}
References
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External links
[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZaXo-NIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Helen Tager-Flusberg] publications indexed by Google Scholar
[https://childes.talkbank.org/access/Clinical-Eng/Flusberg.html Tager-Flusberg Downs syndrome corpus] in CHILDES
[https://asd.talkbank.org/access/English/Flusberg.html Tager-Flusberg ASD corpus] in CHILDES
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Category:Boston University faculty
Category:21st-century American psychologists
Category:Experimental psychologists
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni