Selected Media Coverage

• Welcoming a New Leader to the Life Course Outcomes Research Program
• SENSE Theatre study finds play participation increases social skills in autistic youth
  

Welcoming a New Leader to the Life Course Outcomes Research Program

SENSE Theatre study finds play participation increases social skills in autistic youth

Autism Speaks awards $148,000 of funding to autistic researchers

D. None of the Above: Reflecting on Donald Triplett, ‘Case 1’ in the autism community

Lerner Elected to Board of Directors of International Society for Autism Research

Stony Brook University Partners With Simons Foundation for Autism Research Initiative

Can you say strengths and deficits at the same time?

Stony Brook University to Help Expand Mental Health Services for Youth

Surveying the Landscape of Autism Intervention Practices Across the U.S.

Stony Brook Joins World's Largest Autism Study

A year later, Stony Brook University LEND trainees reflect on lessons learned

Research Along the Autism Spectrum: Diverse Research to Meet Diverse Needs

Dr. Matthew Lerner on Autism Awareness and Acceptance

‘Theory of mind’ in autism: A research field reborn 

Facilitating Social Connections For & Among Those w/Autism Spectrum Disorders w/ Dr. Matthew Lerner

The Stony Brook Autism Initiative: New Developments & Programs to Support the Community

SCTL Director Matthew Lerner, PhD receives LIFE Outstanding Alumni Award

Autism Science Foundation Announces Two Additional COVID-19 Grants

Autism Science Foundation Podcast - Passing as Non-Autistic 

Autism Science Foundation’s Latest COVID-19 Grants Will Fund Studies Focusing on Telehealth and the Pandemic’s Mental Health Impacts

Study Identifies a Neural Signal that May Help Explain Social-Cognitive Ability in Autism

Study Shows Facial Emotions are Successfully Encoded in Brains of Those with Autism

A Faculty Perspective on How 2020 Will Change Us

Screens, Students, and ASD (Children & Screens)

ASF Day of Learning 2020

Stony Brook University Professor Honored for Contributions to Autism Research

Beyond the bench: A conversation with Matthew Lerner

Stony Brook University’s Social Competence and Treatment Lab Excels with Faster Recruitment, Cost Savings, and Double Recruitment Calls

Seed Funding Supports 17 Projects on Potential Therapies, Impacts of Pandemic

University Funds 17 COVID-Related Research Projects

Meet the autistic scientists redefining autism research

COVID-19 and Support for the Autism Community

Tips for Families Caring for ASD Children During Pandemic Times

SBU’s Tamara Rosen defends PhD with advisor, mom, dad, stepmom

SBU’s Matthew Lerner adjusts autism work amid pandemic

How people with autism forge friendships

Autistic People Make Great Social Partners if You Actually Give Them a Chance

Helping autistic kids cope with the chaos and uncertainty of coronavirus

Psychology Professor Awarded for Upcoming Teenage Autism Study

Psychology Professor Receives Award to Support Research on Autism in Teenagers

2019 JCCAP FDF Award Recipient Erin Kang Address

What the Research is Saying about Hiring Autistic Job Candidates

Autism Science Foundation Podcast - Getting Autistic People to Work

SBU’s Erin Kang studies autism communication patterns

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Hyunsik Kim, Erin Kang, and Matthew Lerner:What is Autism and What does it Mean? Week 2, Part 2 

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Hyunsik Kim, Erin Kang, and Matthew Lerner:What is Autism and What does it Mean? Week 2, Part 1 

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Hyunsik Kim, Erin Kang, and Matthew Lerner:What is Autism and What does it Mean? Week 1, Part 2 

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Hyunsik Kim, Erin Kang, and Matthew Lerner:What is Autism and What does it Mean? Week 1, Part 1 

SBU’s Hyunsik Kim explores new ways to characterize autism symptoms

IS AUTISM REALLY MORE THAN ONE SPECTRUM?

Three spectra, not one, may define autism

Interview w/SCTL Grad student Erin Libsack with Anderson Center for Autism about her research

Autism prevalence program expands to include teenagers

Why So Many Gifted Yet Struggling Students Are Hidden In Plain Sight

What Helps Adults With Autism Get and Keep a Job?

What Helps Adults With Autism Get and Keep a Job?

Hardest part of work for autistic adults is getting a job, survey says

Much International Consensus Regarding Employment in Autism

Autism Science Foundation Announces Recipients of 2018 Predoctoral Fellowships

Ask me first: What self-assessments can tell us about autism

SBU's Lerner uses the theater for autism therapy (also here)

Clip 2: The SENSE Theater Program for Autistic Youth

Clip 1: Does Improv/Theater Help Autism? Prove it!

Can Using Theatrical Techniques Improve Social Skills of Autistic Youths? 

Study Examines Brain Activity and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  -Coverage by AAAS EurekAlert.

Search For Self leads to a book: SCTL Alum Elliot Keenan Interview with Suffolk County News! 

Rethinking Autism: From Social Awkwardness to Social Creativity

Alan Alda on the Art and Science of Relating and Communication (podcast)

The unexpected plus of parenting with autism

Sex and other foreign words: studying romantic relationships in ASD

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Dr. Matthew Lerner Week 1, Part 1 

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Dr. Matthew Lerner Week 1, Part 2

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Dr. Matthew Lerner Week 2, Part 1

DDI Broadcast: DDI (Eye) on Autism with Dr. Matthew Lerner Week 2, Part 2

Putting the pieces together around group social skills interventions

For autism researchers, mundane moments spark 'Eureka' insights

SBU Professor receives grant for an innovative study on autism spectrum disorders

Dr. Lerner Awarded Prestigious $2.3M BRAINS grant from NIMH

Brainwaves Video Anthology: Autism: Unlocking the Social World

Brainwaves Video Anthology: 60 Seconds with Matthew Lerner

Minds Matter to University Scholar Dhara Doshi '16

CMU Professor uses audio drama to help kids with autism

How Minecraft is helping children with autism make new friends

Study finds maternal obesity, autism link (commentary by Dr. Lerner)

Autism and Sign Language Experts Bring Consortium to Cambridge, Mass.   

Autism Science Foundation Coverage of Recent Work by the SCTL and Colleagues

Matthew Lerner aw​arde​d an Explorer Grant from the Simons Foundation to Pursue Autism Research

Music Department Finds Innovative Ways to Use Sound as Therapy (June 23, 2015)

Unseen Agony: Dismantling Autism's House of Pain (May 21, 2015) *Coverage of SCTL student work*

SCTL's CASL Conference Media Coverage

Science on Tap (Video) Coverage of Dr. Lerner's Research (October 29, 2014)

What Do We Really Know About Autism and Crime?

Stony Brook URECA - Researcher of the Month (June, 2014) *Coverage of SCTL student work*

Autism Speaks Science Digest (February 6, 2014)

WTNH (January 17, 2014)

Hartford Courant (January 17, 2014)

ABC News/NBC/Associated Press (January 17, 2014)

Connecticut News Junkie (January 17, 2014)

Autism Speaks Science Blog (August 24, 2012)

APA Monitor (January 2012)

Harvard Education Letter (January/February 2012)

InBalance (APA Division 53 Newsletter) (Fall 2011)

APS Observer (February 2011)

Salem News (Summer 2010)

Boston Globe (Nov. 2009)

Danvers Herald (May 2009)

Bay State Parent (March 2006)

The Advocate (Summer 2005)