News & Updates

2024

March 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Su, who was recently awarded a three-year NIH NIDCD R21 project! This funding will support a project aimed at examining word learning from infant-directed speech in autistic toddlers.


LILAC Lab participated in CCF’s Family Celebration “My Baby is a Scholar” event this weekend!

February 2024

Dr. Su’s new article on the early vocalizations in autistic infants, in collaboration with Dr. HyunJoo Yoo (University of Alabama), Dr. D. Kimbrough Oller (University of Memphis), and Dr. Gordon Ramsay (Marcus Autism Center), is out in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders! Read it here

January 2024

Dr. Su gave a talk on how parentese supports early language learning in autistic children and in bilingual children to kick off The Center for Children and Families‘s 16th annual Spring Lecture Series. Check it out here!


LILAC Lab undergraduate student, Vivian Le, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholar Award to support her independent project on caregivers’ use of parentese in Mandarin-English bilingual families. Congratulations, Vivian!

2023

December 2023

❄️ LILAC Lab Holiday Party and White Elephant Social ❄️

November 2023

New goofy lab photo! Check out our growing team 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏼👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼


🎃 LILAC Lab Halloween Social 🕸️