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Kathryn Prescott

Title:Assistant Professor
Office:Pacelli Hall
Phone:773-298-3567
Email:prescott@sxu.edu
Department:Comm. Sci. & Disorders

Biography

Kathryn Prescott's, Ph.D., research interests include the interaction of individual child characteristics and cognitive mechanisms with specific features of the learning environment, giving rise to structural language development in autistic children. Prescott has additional clinical and research interests in language acquisition through augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) modalities, including determining optimal intervention dose/frequency and device personalization. The goal of this research is to provide personalized recommendations for speech-language therapy and environmental accommodations based on each child's unique profile of strengths and needs. Prescott is a certified speech-language pathologist with clinical experience in schools, early intervention, and outpatient pediatric clinical settings.

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