Campus Directory
Kathryn Prescott
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office: | Pacelli Hall |
| Phone: | 773-298-3567 |
| Email: | prescott@sxu.edu |
| Department: | Comm. Sci. & Disorders |
Biography
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Education
Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology
University of Illunois Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Northwestern University
Areas of Specialization
Typical and Atypical Child Language Development; Autism
Certification/Licensure
- Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist (Illinois and Wisconsin)
- Certificate of Clinical Competence, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Chair Specialized Clinical Interests
- Language Development
- Autism
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Early Intervention
- School-Age Language Intervention
Courses Taught
- CSDI 305: Development of Language in the Young Child
- CSDIG 503: Developmental Disorders of Language
- CSDIG 514: Practicum in Prevention
- CSDIG 515: Practicum in Speech-Language Pathology I
Selected Honors/Awards
- Research Funding: NIDCD F31 DC020901, 09/01/2022-06/12/2024, Exemplar Variability in Cross-Situational Word Learning Among Young Autistic Children. PI.
- D. Scholarship, Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD), 2022
- Paula Menyuk Award, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 2021
Presentations/Publications/Productions
Publications
Prescott, K. E., Larson, C., Stabile, M., & Eigsti, I. M. (under review). Sound-symbol correspondence in autism: The Bouba-Kiki effect. Research in Autism.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (in preparation). Semantic Representation and Network Organization in Young Autistic Children.
Prescott, K. E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Bolt, D., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2024). The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers. Autism Research.
Prescott, K. E., Crespo, K., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2023). Spatial Language and Cognition in Autistic Preschoolers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-13.
Prescott, K. E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Reuter, T., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2022). Predictive language processing in young autistic children. Autism Research, 15(5), 892-903.
Prescott, K.E., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2020). Children with ASD and Communication Regression: Examining Pre-Loss Skills and Later Language Outcomes Through the Preschool Years. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-15.
Math茅e-Scott, J., Prescott, K. E., Pomper, R., Saffran, J., & Weismer, S. E. (2024). Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-13.
Larson, C., Gangopadhyay, I., Prescott, K.E., Kaushanskaya, M., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2021). Planning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Verbal Mediation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-18.
Posters and Presentations
Prescott, K.E., Stabile, M., Larson, C., & Eigsti, I., (2025). 鈥淩evisiting Bouba and Kiki in Autism鈥� (Poster), International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2024). 鈥淪emantic Representation and Network Organization in Young Autistic Children鈥� (Poster), Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.
Math茅e-Scott, J. & Prescott, K.E., (2023). 鈥淧rediction and Language in Young Autistic Children鈥� (Presentation). Department of Communication and Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Professional Seminar, University of Wisconsin 鈥� Madison.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2023). 鈥淎utistic Toddlers Demonstrate Hyperplasticity During a Linguistic Prediction Task鈥� (Oral Presentation), Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.
Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Prescott, K.E., Pomper, R., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2023). 鈥淎utistic and non-autistic children differentially affected by disruptions in verbal probabilistic input鈥� (Poster), Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2023). 鈥淵oung Autistic Children Demonstrate Hyperplasticity of Learning in Linguistic Task鈥� (Poster), International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting.
Prescott, K.E., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2023). 鈥淪patial Language and Cognition in Young Autistic Children鈥� (Poster), International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Reuter, T., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2021). 鈥淵oung Autistic Children Make Predictions During Online Sentence Processing鈥� (Oral Presentation), Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.
Prescott, K.E., Math茅e鈥怱cott, J., Reuter, T., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S., (2021). 鈥淵oung Autistic Children Make Predictions During Online Sentence Processing鈥� (Oral Presentation), Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Prescott, K.E. & Ellis Weismer, S, (2021). 鈥淩egression as a Predictor of Preschool Language Outcomes in ASD鈥� (Poster), American Speech-Language -Hearing Association Convention.
Larson, C., Gangopadhyay, I., Prescott, K.E., Kaushanskaya, M., Ellis Weismer, S. (2020). 鈥淧lanning in children with autism spectrum disorder: The role of verbal mediation鈥� (Poster). Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders.*
*SRCLD 2020 conference canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak