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Elizabeth Norton
Field:
Communications Sciences and Disorders, Human Development, Linguistics, Medical Social Sciences, Neurology, Psychology
Focus Areas:
Autism, Childhood Development, Childhood Education, Child Psychology, Communication Skills, Infant Health, Language Learning and Processing, Neuroscience
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Stephen J. Lewis
Northwestern University School of Communication and Feinberg School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Medical Social Sciences
PI, Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience (LEARN) Lab
Interim Director, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Scientists (DevSci)
About
Areas of Focus
- Reading and language development
- Brain development
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Dyslexia
Work/Research
- Brain basis of reading ability and dyslexia
- Factors that shape language development, language delay and which children develop language disorder
- Brain basis of autism spectrum disorder
- Brain-to-brain synchrony
- Early indicators of language and mental health disorders
Career
Norton obtained her B.A. in language and brain development at Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in child study and human development at Tufts University. She completed postdoctoral training at MIT in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She holds multiple NIH grants as PI and has published in the top journals in her area of research, including Nature Neuroscience, Developmental Science and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. She was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Research Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.