Effective Coping Strategies for Sensory Differences and Executive Function

Free webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern time (US), Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Tune in to for this presentation by Drs. Greg Wallace and Goldie McQuaid as they share their research on strategies autistic adults develop to compensate for non-social challenges they experience, including sensory sensitivities and executive function differences.

Compensation Skills - Adults

The speakers:

Greg Wallace, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The George Washington University. His research focuses on neuropsychological and structural brain development in autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespa Save n and their impacts on real-world outcomes. He is also particularly interested in eating-related behaviors and their cognitive and neural correlates in typical and atypical (e.g., autism spectrum disorder) development. Dr. Wallace has published extensively and presented his work widely on these and related topics.

Goldie McQuaid, PhD is a post-doctoral researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her background includes post-doctoral training in linguistics at Georgetown University, and training in neuroimaging at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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